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Twitter intends to make its content moderation practices more transparent: Jack Dorsey

The norms on social media come within weeks of a spat between the government and Twitter.

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Admins can also map the growth of their channels by tracking what sources users are joining from.

Telegram users get disappearing messages feature

Sowmya Ramasubramanian

The updates have come at a time when Facebook is facing criticism for its inability to curb harmful content on its platform.

Facebook adds features to curb child exploitation content on its platform

Sowmya Ramasubramanian The social network has also added an option for users to report any content that violates child safety policy by clicking “involves a child” under the “Nudity & Sexual Activity” category

Brad Smith, Microsoft President

SolarWinds hack required massive, sophisticated effort: Microsoft president

AFP Smith compared previous hacks from Russian- and other government-backed groups to a burglar breaking into a single apartment

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Amazon's concept smart sticky note printer features voice-to-print technology. | Picture by special arrangement.

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.

Facebook will also start adding informational labels to some posts on climate in the UK that will direct people to the information centre.

Facebook says its new features can help debunk common climate myths

Sowmya Ramasubramanian The social networking platform added the information centre in September last year, attempting to curb misinformation around climate, and has now expanded reach to 12 countries including India

Marian Croak, VP, Google

Google restructures AI team after researcher’s contentious departure

Aditya Saroha The company’s announcement included a video interview of Croak highlighting her decades of experience working on ground-breaking technology, with over 200 patents in areas such as Voice over IP

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Twitter intends to make its content moderation practices more transparent: Jack Dorsey

Telegram users get disappearing messages feature

Facebook adds features to curb child exploitation content on its platform

SolarWinds hack required massive, sophisticated effort: Microsoft president

What happens to your WhatsApp account after May 15

All about Powerplay, the new privacy-themed card game from India

EU looks to drones, space communication to get ahead in tech race

EU industry commissioner Thierry Breton said the projects would help the bloc stand on its own feet instead of relying on other countries

Predicting tsunamis with the world’s fastest supercomputer

The AI model developed by Fujitsu Laboratories can predict flooding forecasts for specific areas, making it easier to evacuate people and offer insights on potential damage to surrounding infrastructure

Instagram accounts take downs and the role of ‘OGUsers’ explained

Facebook said it had taken down many Instagram accounts a few weeks ago, stating that an account-hijacking forum called ‘OGUsers’ was involved in stealing accounts by way of hacking and SIM swapping

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

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.

Facebook says its new features can help debunk common climate myths

The social networking platform added the information centre in September last year, attempting to curb misinformation around climate, and has now expanded reach to 12 countries including India

Google restructures AI team after researcher’s contentious departure

The company’s announcement included a video interview of Croak highlighting her decades of experience working on ground-breaking technology, with over 200 patents in areas such as Voice over IP

Long, tense with cat photo for relief; how the GameStop hearing unfolded

Hedge fund managers Gabe Plotkin, whose Melvin Capital lost 53% in January in the GameStop frenzy and Ken Griffin, who built both Citadel LLC and market making business Citadel Securities, also spoke.

EU says copyright laws make situation different from Australia

Under the EU's tougher copyright rules, online platforms will have to sign licensing agreements with musicians, performers, authors, news publishers and journalists to use their work.

Canada vows to be next country to go after Facebook to pay for news

Last year, Canadian media organizations warned of a potential market failure without government action. They said the Australian approach would permit publishers to recover C$620 million a year

WhatsApp to reach out to users via 'status' and banners on proposed privacy policy update

Firm says it had encountered misinformation on now-suspended new policy

Microsoft Teams chat, live events issue is resolved

The Redmond-based company had earlier confirmed that users in the region may experience delays when receiving chat messages, and later added Teams live events may also be impacted by the issue.

Robinhood to allow customers to deposit, withdraw cryptocurrencies

The trading app popular with young investors currently allows customers to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin on its platform, but users cannot withdraw their assets to transfer to other wallets.

‘Xbox Wireless Headset’ promises to deliver customisable audio experience for gamers

The latest accessory in the Xbox family has dual beamforming microphone elements focusing on speech audio, and voice isolation tuning to help the microphone pick up voice instead of background noise

Facebook says AI helped reduce hate speech on its platform last quarter

The company said its multilingual systems helped moderate content in several languages including Arabic and Spanish, targeting nearly 27 million piece of hateful content last quarter.

Kidnap capital Mexico eyes biometric phone registry, sparking privacy fears

Under the plan, America Movil, AT&T Inc and other carriers would be responsible for collecting customers' data, including fingerprints or eye biometrics, to submit to a registry managed by Mexico's telecoms regulator.

Printed in days, a house: New York firm takes 3D printing to the next level

With a detached garage, the house will cover some 1,400 square feet (130 square meters). The footings, foundation and slab, along with the walls, will be entirely made with the 3D printer.

Google fined $1 million for misleading French hotel rankings

Google said that it has now made the “necessary changes to only reflect the official French star rating for hotels on Google Maps and Search.”

Social media app Parler crawls back online on ‘independent technology’

Parler went dark after being cut off by major service providers that accused the app of failing to police violent content related to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by followers of then-U.S. President Donald Trump.

India is putting out its mapping, geospatial data available for general use

The announcement comes at a time when advances in mapping technology, including aerial vehicles, mobile mapping systems, and LIDAR and RADAR sensors, are giving a lift to innovation in eCommerce, logistics and urban transportation sectors.

IRDAI asks insurers to issue Digilocker to policyholders to preserve documents

The Authority advises all insurers to enable their IT systems to interact with Digilocker facility to enable policyholders to use Digilocker for preserving all their policy documents.

Clear crypto rules urgently needed as major companies embrace asset: SEC official

The market was plunged into crisis last month when Reddit users trading on low-cost retail platforms banded together to drive up the prices of GameStop and other stocks, squeezing hedge funds that had bet against those shares.

Clubhouse says reviewing data protection practices after report points to flaws

Launched in early 2020, the app saw global user numbers soar earlier this month after Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev held a surprise discussion on the platform.

Software-as-a-service applications emerge as new target for ransomware, report reveals

The report shows that Apple’s iCloud and Microsoft Outlook 365 are among products with the maximum vulnerabilities

Google's $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated

The agreement between Google and the Alliance de la presse d'information generale, a lobby group representing most major French publishers, was announced previously, but financial terms had not been disclosed.

Koo App: Signing up, privacy concerns, and more

An explainer on the India-made micro-blogging platform that is similar to Twitter

Telegram will ensure ads are ‘privacy conscious’, says founder Durov

The Dubai-based app grew popular last month, crossing 500 million monthly active users in the first week of January, after users contemplated WhatsApp’s policy update.

The virtual date debate

Love in the time of Covid has moved online, but there are pros and cons. While the connections have increased, deep conversations and quality time seem to be taking a hit

Just 270 crypto addresses laundered $1.3 bln in dirty funds last year, research shows

A cryptocurrency address is a set of random letters and numbers that represents a location on a virtual network

Facebook reducing distribution of Myanmar military content

The social media giant said it had also suspended the ability for Myanmar government agencies to send content-removal requests to Facebook through the normal channels used by authorities across the world.

Microsoft backs search engines paying for news worldwide

Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a statement the company fully supports proposed legislation in Australia that would force Google and Facebook to compensate media for their journalism.

Bitcoin soars to all-time high after BNY Mellon announces crypto venture

The BNY Mellon announcement came just days after Elon Musk's Tesla revealed it had bought $1.5 billion worth of the cryptocurrency and would soon accept it as a form of payment for its cars.

English football heads ask Facebook, Twitter to act on racism

There has been growing outrage that players from the Premier League to the Women's Super League have been targeted with abuse on Twitter and Facebook-owned Instagram.

Oracle survey finds 67% people trust robots over humans to manage finances

Business leaders in the survey also pointed out that robots could assist in identifying opportunities, thereby reducing general spending and investing in stock markets.

Facebook to temporarily reduce political content for some users in few countries

The world's largest social network, which has received flack for not doing enough to remove hateful content from the platform, last month said it would stop recommending civic and political groups to users

The Indian Twitter rival staging a Koo

Koo said downloads had surged 10-fold in the past two days to over 3 million. Meanwhile #kooapp was the top Twitter trend in India on Wednesday with nearly 21,000 posts, followed by #BanTwitter.

Reddit forums turn to cannabis sector as stocks hit new highs

The forum has become a must-watch for traders at financial institutions since concerted action by some of its 8 million participants proved enough to overturn hedge fund "short" bets on GameStop and others in January.

Twitter may let users receive payments from followers, may hold bitcoin

Twitter top boss Jack Dorsey, who is also the chief executive of payments firm Square Inc, is a known bitcoin enthusiast and has said he believes the internet will have its own native currency

Elon Musk wants clean power, but Tesla's carrying bitcoin's dirty baggage

At current rates, such bitcoin "mining" devours about the same amount of energy annually as the Netherlands did in 2019, the latest available data from the University of Cambridge and the International Energy Agency shows.

Online experience improves in India driven by teenagers, Microsoft says

India’s online civility score improved three points to 68 in 2020, indicating fewer people experienced negative online interactions or encountered online risks.

Dating apps made $3 billion in 2020, Tinder tops spending list

Tinder was the top ranking app in India and the U.S., having the highest annual overall consumer spend among non-gaming apps in 2020

Apple partners with TSMC to develop micro OLED displays for AR devices: Nikkei

The micro OLED project with TSMC is currently at the trial production stage and will take several years to achieve mass production, according to Nikkei

Facebook faces new UK class action after data harvesting scandal

The lawsuit is the second to allege Facebook allowed third-party apps to harvest the data of friends without their permission or knowledge

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