Mon 19 October 2020: The company has assured the authorities that it will take steps to control “indecent and immoral” on the app Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok has been restored in Pakistan after it assured the authorities it would “block all accounts repeatedly involved in spreading obscenity and immorality”. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: The platform will be modular and flexible to cover all the needs of automakers, allowing it to design large parts of the electric car that Foxconn will produce Foxconn aims to provide components or services for 10 percent of the world’s electric vehicles (EVs) by between 2025 and 2027, and has […]
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Fri 16 October 2020: Twitter has altered its policy on hacked content after its decision to block a news report critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden provoked Republican fury. The social media company will no longer remove hacked material unless it’s directly shared by hackers or those working with them, the company’s head of […]
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Fri 16 October 2020: Facebook’s Instagram has agreed measures to crack down on hidden advertising by paid so-called influencers on its photo and video platform, Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Friday. Influencers with thousands of followers can earn large fees from companies to promotes a product on Instagram. In what the CMA […]
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Thu 15 October 2020: Nokia has developed a fully automated system to find out if a person has coronavirus symptoms and if he or she is wearing a mask. It comprises a thermal camera and real-time video analytics. This is part of efforts to bring back employees to the workplace by ensuring all safety measures […]
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Thu 15 October 2020: Zoom is the household name in video conferencing. While Zoom has mostly been used for meetings and even classes, new use cases have also popped up in the past few months that took it to places beyond the board room, quite literally, too. Zoom is now being used for things like online […]
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Tue 13 October 2020: Facebook on Monday announced a significant change in how it approaches Holocaust denial content on its social network. For years, the company has been criticized for not taking down this extremely offensive form of content in favor of allowing free speech and distancing itself from taking on the responsibilities of a traditional publisher. The […]
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Mon 12 October 2020: Law enforcement globally has complained of the problem encrypted communications poses to felony investigations, but end-to-end encryption additionally presents safety to all kinds of actions from enterprise to political dissent. The Five Eyes intelligence alliance demanded Sunday that tech firms insert “backdoors” in encrypted apps to permit legislation enforcement companies the entry […]
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Sat 10 October 2020: Microsoft will allow employees to work from home on a permanent basis even when offices reopen, according to internal guidance issued this week. The company unveiled a plan for a ‘hybrid workplace’ that will allow employees greater flexibility on whether they return to working in an office full-time or not, The Verge reports. […]
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Fri 09 October 2020: Pakistan’s telecom regulator blocked TikTok on Friday for failing to filter out “immoral and indecent” content, another blow to the social media app that has come under increasing scrutiny as its popularity has surged across the globe. The ban comes in view of “complaints from different segments of the society against […]
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