Tue 15 April 2025: A majority of schools across England have banned mobile phone use during school hours, according to the first national survey of its kind, as concerns grow over the negative effects of smartphones on young people’s wellbeing. The survey, commissioned by the Children’s Commissioner for England Rachel de Souza, showed that 99.8% […]
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Tue 15 April 2025: Japan’s competition watchdog on Tuesday told Google to stop “unfairly pressuring” smartphone makers to preinstall its widely used search app, Kyodo News reported. The Japan Fair Trade Commission concluded that Google, which dominated the online search market, violated the antitrust law and severely undermined competition. This marked the first such order […]
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Tue 15 April 2025: Electric vehicle (EV) sales globally increased by 29% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 to 4.1 million, according to a report by market research firm Rho Motion on Tuesday. In this period, 2.4 million sales were recorded in China, 900,000 in Europe, 500,000 in North America and 300,000 in other […]
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Mon 14 April 2025: WhatsApp is working on a feature enabling users to handle multiple accounts within the same app, eliminating the need for separate devices or WhatsApp Business. Per WABetaInfo, the iOS WhatsApp beta version 25.9.10.70, accessible via TestFlight, indicates this multi-account functionality will roll out in a future update. __________________________________________________________________________ https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaAtNxX8fewmiFmN7N22 __________________________________________________________________________ Meta’s […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: A new legal document submitted in a United States court has revealed that at least 100 individuals in India were targeted by the Pegasus spyware during a WhatsApp hacking operation in 2019. This figure places India as the second-most affected country globally, as per a report by Medianama published on Thursday. […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: A website is using AI to scrape and compile photos from the internet, revealing where and when they were posted. This has sparked widespread concern, with many labeling it “creepy” and “disturbing” due to its potential for misuse and invasion of privacy. The site called PimEyes uses AI to hunt down […]
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Sat 12 April 2025: Indonesia has been developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-based malaria detection system that will use data from various places around the country to recognize distinct malaria parasite species, according to the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). “This technology utilizes morpho-geometric feature extraction to identify the size and shape of infected blood […]
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Thu 10 April 2025: China on Wednesday said that any deal for TikTok had to comply with Chinese law, reiterating an earlier stance when asked about U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to extend the deadline for the TikTok sale by 75 days. Trump extended the deadline last week after sources said a deal to spin off the U.S. assets […]
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Wed 09 April 2025: Türkiye will establish a Regional Positioning and Timing System to reduce its dependence on foreign strategic infrastructure and strengthen its presence in space. Additionally, Türkiye will develop a locally known and used map and navigation application in international platforms. According to information compiled from the Ministry of Industry and Technology’s “2030 Industry and Technology Strategy,” the […]
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Wed 09 April 2025: Microsoft is under scrutiny due to its alleged support of the Israeli military via its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services after the attacks on Oct. 7, 2023. Senior Microsoft employees protested the company’s services to Israel at its 50th anniversary party, including AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, which brought back to […]
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