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Google has announced changes in its policies and product to limit their exposure to explicit content targeted at the under-18 age group. File Photo.

Google rolls out new features to improve child safety online

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Tech giant to make ‘safe search’ default for under 18; no ad targeting for them

Alice Wilkinson (7) adds a face mask to her character on the game 'Roblox' at her home in Manchester, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues.

U.S. lawmakers urge major gaming companies to make child-friendly designs

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Facebook stopped accepting political ads a week before the 2020 U.S. presidential election to prevent election interference.

Explained | Why Facebook cut access to NYU Ad Observatory researchers?

Sowmya Ramasubramanian The Ad Observatory project at NYU was started by the Cybersecurity for Democracy group with over 6,500 volunteers at the University’s school of engineering in September 2020

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Everything now comes home: on-demand service apps and their teething troubles

Nidhi Adlakha Home services have become popular during the lockdown, but teething troubles continue

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Google Maps now allows iOS users to share their live location from iMessage. | Picture by special arrangement.

Google Maps app in iOS gets dark mode, live location sharing from iMessage

Ishan Patra Using the iMessage feature, users will be able to quickly share their live location with their friends and family. All they need to do is tap on the Google Maps button in iMessage and select share real-time location.

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Amazon is offering people $10 in credit for their palm print

Ishan Patra The biometric system, which was introduced last year, enables people to use their palm to make payments at select Amazon Go, 4-star, Books, and Pop Up stores.

Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings.

Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings

Reuters Bengio is expected to lead a new AI research unit at Apple under John Giannandrea, senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy, two people familiar with the matter said.

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Facebook delays return to campus as Delta variant rages

Explained | What is Apple’s new child safety feature and why is it criticised?

Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks

Google rolls out new features to improve child safety online

U.S. lawmakers urge major gaming companies to make child-friendly designs

Explained | Why Facebook cut access to NYU Ad Observatory researchers?

WhatsApp chief says Apple’s new child safety feature “very concerning”

Apple rolled out a new child safety feature last week which instantaneously raised criticism from experts around the world stating it could be misused by governments to surveil citizens.

U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research

Facebook had initially said that the decision was made out of a need for the social media giant to live up to a consent agreement with the Federal Trade Commission.

Huawei reports biggest ever revenue drop as consumer growth engine stutters

Revenue also fell 14% in the first half from Huawei's telecoms equipment business, which a spokesperson said was partially down to the slowdown in China's 5G rollout.

China's antitrust regulator to fine Meituan about $1 bln

The State Administration of Market Regulation (SAMR) launched an antitrust probe into Meituan in April, focussing on a practice whereby a company forces vendors to use its platform exclusively.

Everything now comes home: on-demand service apps and their teething troubles

Home services have become popular during the lockdown, but teething troubles continue

Metaverse | What is the ‘next generation of Internet’ Zuckerberg and Nadella are talking about?

Tech giants are all set to establish the metaverse, a form of mixed reality integrated with the Internet.

Nintendo reports slump in quarterly sales for its flagship Switch console

Nintendo saw sales of Switch Lite units more than halve to 1.14 million during the April-June quarter but maintained its full-year forecast for Switch hardware at 25.5 million units.

ByteDance to lay off staff, close businesses over China tutoring clampdown

The move comes after China imposed sweeping regulations on the private-tutoring sector.

U.S. lawmaker says Facebook move to cut off researcher access is ‘deeply concerning’

Facebook said on Tuesday it had cut off the personal accounts and access of the NYU researchers, who were studying political ads on the site, because of concerns about other users’ privacy.

LinkedIn must face narrowed U.S. lawsuit claiming it overcharged advertisers

The advertisers sued after LinkedIn said on Nov. 12 that its engineers had three months earlier found and then fixed software bugs that may have led to more than 4,18,000 overcharges.

Google Maps app in iOS gets dark mode, live location sharing from iMessage

Using the iMessage feature, users will be able to quickly share their live location with their friends and family. All they need to do is tap on the Google Maps button in iMessage and select share real-time location.

Dark mode on devices may not save much battery life, study says

Dark mode has been marketed as a battery-saving setting on smartphone and laptops, but a Purdue Univeristy study suggests otherwise.

Amazon is offering people $10 in credit for their palm print

The biometric system, which was introduced last year, enables people to use their palm to make payments at select Amazon Go, 4-star, Books, and Pop Up stores.

Apple works with Chinese suppliers for latest iPhones

Luxshare has won orders over its Taiwanese rivals Foxconn and Pegatron Corp, and will start building the iPhone 13 Pro this month, the paper said.

Why some users are upset with Instagram’s new 'sensitive content' feature?

Instagram introduced a new ‘sensitive content control’ feature last month aimed at allowing users to control what they see in their Explore feeds. But some users are not happy.

Windows 365 is now available in India starting at ₹ 1,555 per user

The plans for both categories start with a basic configuration of one vCPU, 2 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage.

China regulator targets auto chip distributors with price-gouging probe

The firms were suspected of driving up prices, based on price monitoring and reporting clues, it added in its statement, and vowed to investigate and punish illegal acts such as hoarding, price-gouging and collusion.

Tencent vows fresh gaming curbs after 'spiritual opium' attack zaps $60 billion

China's largest social media and video game firm saw its stock tumble more than 10% in early trade, wiping almost $60 billion from its market capitalisation.

Twitter partners with Reuters, AP to combat misinformation

Credible news from Reuters and AP will help Twitter contextualise developing discourse so that misinformation can be ruled out before it becomes viral.

Facebook’s Kustomer deal may hurt competition, EU regulators say

The EU executive, which acts as the bloc's competition enforcer, said the deal may result in Facebook blocking rivals’ access to its units WhatsApp, Messenger or Instagram, which are key to customer relationship management software.

Twitter to reward users spotting bias in its image-cropping algorithm

Twitter admitted in May the saliency algorithm displayed racial and gender bias, and ditched it stating cropping an image is a decision best made by people.

Twitter's Dorsey leads $29 bln buyout of lending pioneer Afterpay

The Afterpay founders said the deal marked "an important recognition of the Australian technology sector as homegrown innovation continues to be shared more broadly throughout the world".

Amazon hit with record EU data privacy fine

Globally, regulatory scrutiny of tech giants has been increasing following a string of scandals over privacy and misinformation, as well as complaints from some businesses that they abuse their market power.

Musk says "Epic is right," takes sides in battle with Apple

Musk late on Friday said that though he likes using Apple products, the iPhone maker is "overcharging with App Store".

Zoom reaches $85 million settlement over user privacy, ‘Zoombombing’

Subscribers in the proposed class action would be eligible for 15% refunds on their core subscriptions or $25, whichever is larger, while others could receive up to $15.

HC to hear in August pleas of Facebook WhatsApp challenging new IT Rules

WhatsApp said the traceability provision is unconstitutional and against the fundamental right to privacy.

Tokyo Olympics | Games-related streaming app downloads surge

Apps with streaming rights saw up to a 13 times rise in downloads during the first week of the games, according to app intelligence firm App Annie.

Keep those lips sealed! Tech companies can now read them

Watch your mouth; tech giants such as Amazon, Sony and Google are leveraging Artificial Intelligence to build powerful lipreading technologies which are amassing concerns around privacy and Big Brother-esque surveillance

Clubbed together for comfort during COVID-19, here’s the rise of ‘unlabelled virtual wards’ on social media

Audio drop-in apps like Clubhouse and Spotify Greenroom are seeing spontaneous rooms of COVID-positive people, helping each other through quarantine virtually

Instagram to restrict some ads from reaching minors

The move comes as the image-sharing platform continues to face criticism for neglecting the safety of children.

Amazon announces several features, tools for developers to boost Alexa

The retailer said the features will make it easier for developers to personalise experiences and monetise opportunities to drive growth.

Facebook brings Instagram, Oculus execs to set up new AR product

It will be a “collection of digital worlds”, enabling users to explore seamlessly between various virtual reality experiences, Andrew Bosworth, VP, AR/VR at Facebook, explained in a social media post.

Malware can be injected into AI models, research shows

Researchers reckon that with widespread application of AI, utilising neural networks to inject malware could become a new way to run malicious campaigns.

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

With products becoming difficult to repair, activists and consumer organisations are advocating the ‘Right to Repair’ movement, which aims to enable consumers to repair their electronics products by themselves or third-party technicians.

How to disable Microsoft 365 update messages

The frequency of update messages could get annoying while working on certain tasks.

Austrian activist Schrems’ Facebook complaint referred to EU court

The civil case revolves around Schrems’ assertion that Facebook deprives users of the rights and protections they enjoy under the EU’s privacy law, the GDPR, by treating consent as a contract that empowers it to use their data to deliver targeted ads.

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

P&G is a model and its use of high-speed automation and robots is a key to its success.

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

The deal comes days after China's market regulator decided to block Tencent's plans to merge videogame streaming sites, Huya and DouYu, on antitrust grounds.

A new way to encrypt photos on the cloud

A new model by researchers at Columbia Engineering can encrypt photos uploaded to cloud services including Google Photos and iCloud without making any change to the services.

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.

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