Wed 17 March 2021: Instagram announced new policies on Tuesday that will restrict communications between teens and adults who do not already follow each other. The photo-sharing social network will use a machine learning technology to better identify the age of its users and show safety prompts to kids to protect them from being targeted […]
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Tue 16 March 2021: Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor may impose measures, similar to those enforced against Twitter, also against other internet and social networking services, including Facebook, Youtube and Instagram, Roskomnadzor deputy head Vadim Subbotin said on Tuesday. “We do not rule out that if other sites also violate Russian legislation and fail to comply […]
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Mon 15 March 2021: Facebook Inc, which has been criticized by lawmakers and researchers for allowing vaccine misinformation to spread on its platforms, said on Monday it has started adding labels to posts that discuss the safety of the shots and will soon label all posts about the vaccines. The social media company said in a […]
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Sun 14 March 2021: A farmer in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj has built an electric four-wheeler that runs on a solar-powered battery. The car built by Sushil Agarwal is powered by 850 Watts motor, 100 Ah/ 54 Volts of battery and can run 300 km on a single charge. “I have a workshop at home. During COVID-19 […]
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Sun 14 March 2021: It looks like science fiction: A machine dips into a shallow vat of translucent yellow goo and pulls out what becomes a life-sized hand. But the seven-second video, which is sped-up from 19 minutes, is real. The hand, which would take six hours to create using conventional 3D printing methods, demonstrates […]
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Sat 13 March 2021: Innovation in NHS self-care will see patients in England swallow tiny cameras instead of having standard endoscopy. People will be able to check if they have bowel cancer by swallowing a tiny capsule containing miniature cameras, in an extension of patient self-care, according to The Guardian. In what experts described as […]
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Fri 12 March 2021: The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles (two million kilometers) of our planet on March 21, NASA said Thursday. The US space agency said it will allow astronomers to get a rare close look at an asteroid. The asteroid, 2001 FO32, is […]
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Fri 12 March 2021: Videos containing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation will be removed from YouTube, the platform announced today. Content about a vaccine that contradicts information from health experts or the World Health Organization won’t be permitted. YouTube has deleted more than 30,000 videos that contained misinformation about COVID-19 vaccinations since October, according to the company’s […]
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Thu 11 March 2021: A Pakistani court has ordered a ban on the TikTok social media platform over alleged “obscene content”, the second time the app has been banned in the South Asian country in less than six months. The Peshawar High Court’s Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan made the ruling during a hearing into […]
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Wed 10 March 2021: A US hacker collective on Tuesday claimed to have tapped into footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, carmaker Tesla and other sites to expose “the surveillance state.” Images captured from hacked surveillance video were posted on Twitter with an #OperationPanopticon hashtag. Cybercriminals has hacked into Verkada, an enterprise […]
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