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ByteDance-owned TikTok crossed 3 billion downloads globally

TikTok breaks into Facebook’s exclusive domain with 3 billion installs

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Google Meet to limit time on group calls for free accounts.

Google Meet to limit time on group calls for free accounts

Aditya Saroha Google users with free accounts will now have a 60-minute limit on group calls on Google Meet, rather than the previous 24-hour duration.

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2020, file photo, visitors wearing mask to protect from the coronavirus walk past a 5G sign at the China Beijing International High Tech Expo in Beijing, China.

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Does 5G have potential to be a harmonising technology layer?

Divya Kala Bhavani There is plenty we need to know about 5G that we do not. Jefferson Wang, Accenture Global 5G Lead speaks about the value-chain of a 5G network in the ‘future home’ and what this could mean for smart cities

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The company has received nearly 49,000 responses globally in 14 languages, the spokeswoman said.

Users have a say Twitter hears from record respondents over world leader rules

Reuters Twitter’s month-long survey asked questions like whether world leaders breaking Twitter's rules should face "greater or lesser" consequences then other users and whether it was ever appropriate for Twitter to permanently suspend the account of a current president or prime minister

Hackers target Indian users with fake COVID-19 vaccine registration message.

Hackers target Indian users with fake COVID-19 vaccine registration message

Aditya Saroha Hackers first send users an SMS message which says “REGISTER FOR COVID VACCINE from age 18+” and asks users to register with the ‘COVID-19’ app.

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Amazon is testing a new way to sell its “favourite concepts”

Ishan Patra To start with, the Seattle-based company has revealed three concepts compatible with Alexa — a smart sticky note printer, a smart nutrition scale, and a smart cuckoo clock.

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Explained | Right To Repair movement and how Big Tech is reacting to it

How to disable Microsoft 365 update messages

Austrian activist Schrems’ Facebook complaint referred to EU court

Getting the cap on the bottle: Inside P&G's robot ambitions

Tencent snaps up British video game developer Sumo in $1.3 bln deal

A new way to encrypt photos on the cloud

NFT Music: the gatekeepers are changing

How NFTs are creating a new idea of patronage and empowering musicians

NFT | 90% art, 10% music: WazirX on top NFT categories in India

Nischal Shetty of WazirX on top NFT categories in India, and why he is making room for influencers

TikTok breaks into Facebook’s exclusive domain with 3 billion installs

TikTok has thrived despite threat of government bans in some countries.

Dogecoin creator says crypto industry financially exploits the vulnerable

Jackson Palmer took to Twitter to explain why he would not return to the cryptocurrency industry, stating it is built to amplify the wealth of the rich by exploiting the poor.

Netflix hires former Facebook exec as gaming VP to focus beyond films, shows

Netflix's expansion comes at a time when the company is looking at new ways to draw in subscribers in an attempt to stave off fierce competition from the likes of Disney+, Apple TV+ and HBO Max.

EU watchdog rejects call to ban Facebook from processing WhatsApp user data

The regulator in the city-state of Hamburg announced in May that it was banning the social network from processing personal data from WhatsApp users because it views the messaging app's new terms of use as illegal.

Twitter shuts down Fleets within a year of launch

Twitter said the feature hasn’t seen an increase in the number of new people joining the conversation.

Instagram rolls out new security feature to help protect hacked accounts

The update comes as the app sees a rise in malicious accounts sending direct messages to users to try and access sensitive information like account passwords.

Google Cloud announces second ‘Cloud Region’ in India

With this new region, Google Cloud customers operating in India will benefit from low latency and high performance of their cloud-based workloads and data, the company said.

China tightens control over cybersecurity in data crackdown

Foreign vendors that sell routers and some other network products in China are required to disclose to regulators how any encryption features work.

Google Meet to limit time on group calls for free accounts

Google users with free accounts will now have a 60-minute limit on group calls on Google Meet, rather than the previous 24-hour duration.

Bank of England to crack down on 'secretive' cloud computing services

Earlier the BoE's Financial Policy Committee said additional policy measures were needed to mitigate financial stability risks in cloud computing.

Hackers exploit Kaseya ransomware attack to launch spam campaign

Researchers at Malwarebytes say they found an email that poses as a patch for the Kaseya attack, but contains a malicious link and an attachment, purporting to have come from Microsoft.

Google fined 500 million euros by France’s antirust regulator

News publishers APIG, SEPM and AFP accuse the tech company of having failed to open talks in good faith with them to find common ground for the remuneration of news content online, under a recent European Union directive that creates so-called "neighbouring rights".

Does 5G have potential to be a harmonising technology layer?

There is plenty we need to know about 5G and the spectrum. Jefferson Wang, Accenture Global 5G Lead speaks about the value-chain of a 5G network in the ‘future home’ and what this could mean for smart cities

Explained | What is a bitcoin hardware wallet and how it works?

Hardware wallets like Trezor and Ledger have become a popular option for crypto asset owners owing to its security and convenience.

WhatsApp targeted in EU consumer complaints over privacy changes

The BEUC and eight of its members said WhatsApp was unfairly pressuring users to accept its new policies.

New tool limits disruptions caused by space operations, FAA says

The tool, called the Space Data Integrator, will replace a system in which much of the work of giving telemetry data about space vehicles to air traffic control managers is done manually.

How Vietnam's 'influencer' army wages information warfare on Facebook

Social media researchers say the group may be the largest and most sophisticated influence network in Southeast Asia. And it is now playing a prominent role in the country's intensifying conflict with Facebook.

OnePlus says it throttled apps to improve battery life

The slowdown was noted in most apps in Google’s Play store, including Google’s app suite, Microsoft’s Office apps, all popular social media apps, and browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge.

Pakistan-linked hackers are targeting critical infrastructure PSUs in India, report says

Researchers explained the final payload can capture sensitive information including screenshots, keystrokes, and files from affected system.

YouTube algorithm recommends violent content, hate speech, says Mozilla

As per the data analysed, 71% of the videos that volunteers of the project reported as regrettable were actively recommended by YouTube’s algorithm.

Won't compel users to accept new privacy policy, WhatsApp tells Delhi HC

"We voluntarily agreed to put it (the policy) on hold.”

An algorithm that reduces energy usage in computer servers

The new algorithm addresses the problem of servers becoming overloaded as they receive more requests from clients than they have the capacity to handle.

U.S. IPO market a danger zone for Chinese firms after Beijing crackdown

U.S. capital markets have been a lucrative source of funding for Chinese firms in the past decade, especially for technology companies looking to benchmark their valuations against listed peers there and tap an abundant liquidity pool.

Alipay, Wechat limit user access to Didi's micro-software in China

The light-version platforms, known as mini programmes, are smaller than common mobile apps and exist inside a super, or multifunction app, such as Alipay or Wechat.

Crypto exchange Binance to double compliance staff as regulators circle

Around the world regulators are worried about criminals using cryptocurrencies as a conduit for money laundering and about investors falling victim to scams in the red-hot sector.

Audio-editing software Audacity’s policy update raises privacy concerns

Audacity has been available as an open-source software since 2000, which means the application’s original source code has been made freely available and can be redistributed and modified.

Explained | Kaseya and the massive cyberattack affecting 1,500 businesses globally

The Florida-based company’s impact can be understood from the fact that more than 40,000 organisations around the world use one or all of Kaseya’s IT tools, making it central to software supply chain of hundreds of businesses around the world.

Explained | Why is China’s largest ride-hailing app under probe?

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said it suspects the app to be involved in illegal collection and use of personal data. It did not provide any further details.

Didi says app takedown may hit revenue, other U.S.-listed Chinese firms probed

The CAC's move also comes amid a widespread regulatory squeeze on Chinese tech firms that began with the scuttling of a $37 billion listing planned by Alibaba fintech affiliate Ant Group late last year.

Chinese antitrust regulator to block Tencent's videogaming merger

Tencent first announced plans to merge Huya and DouYu last year in a tie-up designed to streamline its stakes in the firms.

SoftBank pays $1.6 bln for Yahoo Japan rights

Verizon is offloading its media businesses including Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm Apollo Global after struggling to compete with internet giants in a $5 billion deal set to close in the second half of this year.

Pro-Trump social media app hacked on launch day as half million sign up

GETTR, a Twitter-style platform with posts and trending topics, has advertised itself on the Google and Apple app stores as "a non-bias social network for people all over the world."

What’s next for Amazon's Bezos? Look at his Instagram

Bezos, 57, is set to hand over the job of Amazon chief executive on Monday to Andy Jassy.

Global consumer spending on mobile apps surges to $65 billion

People spent $65 billion on App Store and Google Play Store, a 25% jump from $52 billion spent during the same period last year. iOS users spent nearly twice as much as Android users.

Tesla top-of-range car caught fire while owner was driving, lawyer says

The car continued to move for about 35 feet to 40 feet (11 to 12 meters) before turning into a "fireball" in a residential area near the owner's Pennsylvania home.

Facebook’s AI platform can train robots to do daily household tasks

Robots are being used increasingly in workplaces and hospitals. They have also become popular in households where they help perform simple daily tasks.

WHO lays down guidelines for AI use in healthcare

WHO calls for collaboration between the public, governments and health experts to make the best and safest use of AI.

Jeff Bezos picks female aerospace pioneer to launch with him

Wally Funk, who lives near Dallas, was the first female inspector for the Federal Aviation Administration and the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board

Google reports soaring attrition among Black women

Civil rights groups and activist investors are pressuring Silicon Valley companies such as Google to bring more women and racial minorities into leadership, contending that better business results would follow.

Zoom buys German AI translation company

The deal will expand the app’s speech-to-text feature, one of the biggest challenges in artificial intelligence research.

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