Sat 28 December 2019: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday unveiled prototypes of a domestically produced electric car, putting him closer to fulfilling a long-held dream of building Turkey’s first ‘national’ automobile. Erdogan showcased the SUV and sedan models of the car, known for now as TOGG after a consortium of Turkish companies that […]
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Fri 20 December 2019: (AFP) Facial recognition systems can produce wildly inaccurate results, especially for non-whites, according to a US government study released Thursday that is likely to raise fresh doubts on deployment of the artificial intelligence technology. The study of dozens of facial recognition algorithms showed “false positives” rates for Asian and African American […]
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Fri 20 December 2019: (AFP) Facebook on Thursday said it is investigating a report that a database containing names and phone numbers of more than 267 million users was exposed online. The database was made available for download last week on an online hacker forum that apparently belonged to a crime group, according to a […]
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Wed 18 December 2019: (AFP) Facebook can determine where users are even if they opt out of having their whereabouts tracked, the company revealed in a letter sent to US senators. In the missive, which was widely shared on social media Tuesday, Facebook explained ways it can still figure out where people are after they […]
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Mon 09 December 2019: There are a number of digital marketing techniques that can be used to help attract new customers online. There are over 4 billion internet users in the world, but getting your product, service or website in front of them is not always easy. Here is a rundown of some of the […]
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Fri 06 December 2019: Instagram said Wednesday it would require new users to verify they are at least 13 when they join the visually focused, Facebook-owned social network. The move aims to help Instagram comply with a US law and its own policies that require any user to be at least 13. “Asking for this […]
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Thu 05 December 2019: Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro has been found to continuously collecting and transmitting its users location data even when the user has blocked it from doing so. Security journalist Brian Krebs wrote about this on his blog recently, with an accompanying video revealing that the new iPhone continues to collect GPS data […]
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Mon 02 December 2019: A major security flaw within WhatsApp is further proof that spy agencies are habitually using it as a surveillance tool, the founder of rival messaging app Telegram has claimed. Pavel Durov supported this claim by pointing to a recent vulnerability that potentially exposed the private messages and photos of WhatsApp users – just months […]
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Mon 02 December 2019: A major security flaw within WhatsApp is further proof that spy agencies are habitually using it as a surveillance tool, the founder of rival messaging app Telegram has claimed. Pavel Durov supported this claim by pointing to a recent vulnerability that potentially exposed the private messages and photos of WhatsApp users – just months […]
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Tue 19 November 2019: WhatsApp, text or email – which is the most secure option when your conversation really has to be locked down? The recent private-messages-going-public news with Congress scouring the messages obtained from diplomats as part of its impeachment inquiry again has private exchanges top of mind and offers a good jumping-off point […]
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