Thu 30 September 2021: Apple’s big iOS 15 upgrade for iPhones now allows you to include Windows and Android users in FaceTime calls. It’s the first time something like this has been possible. FaceTime calls were formerly restricted to iPhones, iPads, and Macs. You can now invite individuals using other devices, such as a Windows […]
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Thu 30 September 2021: As social media platforms try to combat health misinformation surrounding Covid-19 and other diseases, YouTube stated on Wednesday that it would remove videos and some high-profile users who incorrectly suggest that approved vaccines are dangerous. In a blog post published on Wednesday, the streaming platform explained that its current community guidelines, […]
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Wed 29 September 2021: According to The Daily Mail, NASA has launched a satellite the size of a small box, as well as a new Earth-observing spacecraft, to monitor the changing state of our planet. The $4 million satellite, which is about the size of a “family-sized box of cereal,” has launched into space to […]
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Tue 28 September 2021: TikTok, a popular social media platform, revealed on Monday that it had reached 1 billion active members globally. “Every month, over 1 billion individuals from all around the world visit TikTok to be entertained while learning, laughing, or discovering something new. We’re honored to be a home for our immensely diverse […]
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Tue 28 September 2021: Egypt has said it will tax social media content creators earning more than 500,000 Egyptian pounds ($32,000) annually. “Anyone who makes a profit in Egypt must be fairly taxed whatever their field of work is,” said tax authority official Mohamed Al-Gayyer. Another tax official, Mohamed Keshk, said that anyone who fails […]
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Mon 27 September 2021: Signal, an encrypted instant messaging app, experienced an outage late Sunday, causing the platform’s services to be disrupted. “Signal is currently down, due to a hosting outage affecting parts of our service,” the company said on Twitter. “We’re working on bringing it back up.” Hold tight, folks! Signal is currently down, […]
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Thu 23 September 2021: On Sept. 30, Facebook’s global head of safety, Antigone Davis, will appear before the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection. The Washington Post reported the news earlier Thursday. The Wall Street Journal published a series of articles about Facebook’s internal research and deliberations about human traffickers using the platform, special treatment […]
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Fri 24 September 2021: Prosecutors say two Catholic monks in southeastern France set fire to 5G mobile network masts in order to call attention to the new technology’s claimed health risks. The monks from an ultra-conservative Capuchin monastery in the Rhone region confessed to authorities that they set out last week in the dead of […]
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Wed 22 September 2021: Lithuania’s Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities. Flagship phones sold in Europe by China’s smartphone giant Xiaomi Corp have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms […]
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Tue 21 September 2021: An unidentified hacker, known only as Deus, has revealed on an internet forum that he has hacked into the systems of the giant Israeli communications firm Voicenter and stolen 15 terabytes of data, local media reported on Monday. The hacker put the information up for sale, posting hundreds of examples of […]
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