Sun 28 March 2021: Facebook on Saturday announced that it suspended the account of the leader of Venezuela for 30 days. Nicolas Maduro violated the social media platform’s policies by promoting misinformation about a medicine called Carvatinir, which he claimed cures the coronavirus, the company said. Facebook has taken down a video in which Maduro […]
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Fri 26 March 2021: Late Wednesday, Axios reported, citing anonymous sources, that Trump is considering partnering with the new platform called FreeSpace to create his own social media network. “That would be a wonderful development to tell everyone about but I don’t have any news or info to report at this time,” Magolnick, the CEO of The Red Flag Image Company, a […]
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Wed 24 March 2021: A Paris-based international media watchdog has filed a lawsuit against social media giant Facebook for spreading hate speech and false information on its networks that contradicts the company’s own promises to provide a safe and error-free online environment. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on March 22 filed a legal suit with the […]
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Tue 23 March 2021: The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) invested in Telegram messenger together with UAE sovereign fund Mubadala Investment Company, a spokesperson of the Russian fund said in a statement. “The fund participated in the investment in Telegram together with Mubadala Investment Company,” he said. “Telegram’s user base has reached a critical mass […]
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Tue 23 March 2021: COVID-19 can be diagnosed in 55 minutes or less with the help of programmed magnetic nanobeads and a diagnostic tool that plugs into an off-the-shelf cellphone, according to Rice University engineers. Mechanical engineer Peter Lillehoj has developed a stamp-sized microfluidic chip that measures the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) protein, a biomarker for […]
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Tue 23 March 2021: Microsoft Corp. is in discussions to purchase videogame-focused chat platform Discord for more than $10 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg News. Discord has reached out to potential buyers and Microsoft is one of them, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. One person said it was more likely […]
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Mon 22 March 2021: Former US President Donald Trump will soon return to social media “with his own platform”, his adviser has said. Jason Miller, a spokesman for Trump’s 2020 campaign, told the network that Trump would re-enter the social media space with a new platform of his own that would “completely redefine the game.” […]
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Sat 20 March 2021: A federal jury in Texas said Apple Inc must pay about $308.5 million to Personalized Media Communications LLC (PMC) for infringing a patent associated with digital rights management. The jurors late no Friday directed Apple to pay a running royalty to PMC, which is generally based on the amount of sales […]
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Fri 19 March 2021: WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram appear to be down with thousands reporting a major outage. “We’re sorry, but something went wrong. Please try again,” reads Instagram right now, whenever we try to access it. WhatsApp is similar with a ‘Connecting’ and circular icon near the top. According to Techradar, issues from Spain, […]
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Fri 19 March 2021: NASA on Thursday will ignite the engines on a rocket that Boeing built to eventually launch Artemis missions to the moon after a previous test in January was cut short. NASA plans to conduct the engines test during a two-hour window that starts at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) at its […]
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