Sat 23 May 2020: Spending on video games in the US jumped to a new April record as locked-down consumers sought refuge in play, industry figures released Friday showed. A total of $1.5 billion was spent on video game hardware, software, accessories and game cards, eclipsing a previous April high of $1.2 billion spent in […]
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Wed 20 May 2020: (AFP) Facebook has agreed to pay a CA$9 million ($6.5 million) fine for making false or misleading claims about its privacy settings, Canada’s competition watchdog announced Tuesday. An investigation of the social media network’s practices from 2012 to 2018 found that the company gave Canadians the impression that users could control […]
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Fri 15 May 2020: Facebook said Friday it had acquired the animated graphics startup GIPHY and would integrate the company in its Instagram visual social network. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the news site Axios said the California-based tech giant was paying $400 million. GIPHY is known for its use of stickers […]
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Sun 10 May 2020: (REUTERS) Facebook Inc and YouTube, the video service of Alphabet Inc’s Google, said on Thursday that they were removing a video that made medically unsubstantiated claims relating to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The 26-minute video dubbed “Plandemic” went viral this week across social media platforms. It features Judy Mikovits, an activist […]
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Fri 08 May 2020: The popular video-sharing app TikTok has grown at record rates during the coronavirus pandemic, recording an all-time high number of downloads of 200 million for the first quarter of 2020, according to data gathered by Learnbonds.com. While the coronavirus pandemic has kept consumers at home, many have turned to their mobile […]
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Tue 05 May 2020: Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new contact tracing system the two are building to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Apple and Google, whose operating systems power 99 percent of smart phones, […]
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Mon 04 May 2020: British institutions fighting the coronavirus outbreak have been subject to cyber attacks traced back to Russia and Iran, The Daily Mail reported on Sunday Hackers have targeted universities in the UK working on potential vaccines and testing kits, as well as scientists and doctors studying the virus, it said. Spy bosses […]
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Sat 02 May 2020: (Reuters) A Chinese startup that develops augmented-reality products for use in manufacturing and gaming has found a promising growth area in the midst of a global pandemic – wearable glasses that measure temperatures on the move. In response to the Covid-19 outbreak in late 2019, Hangzhou-based startup Rokid developed a pair […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: Apple and Google would release two early versions this week of their proposed technology to slow coronavirus spread to select developers for testing purposes, the companies said on Wednesday. According to a report form The Verge, after a test phase started this week the companies are set to release a first version […]
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Wed 29 April 2020: Google makes its business-oriented video conferencing app Meet free to all consumers, in a direct challenge to Zoom and Microsoft Teams Google has responded to the growing usage of the video conferencing app Zoom around the world as many countries remain in lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. Google has revealed in […]
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