Category: Tech

Wed 17 July 2019: Twitter on Monday began rolling out an overhauled version of its website, making it more similar to the mobile version of the one-to-many messaging platform. The revamp to the Twitter page accessible on computer web browsers comes as the San Francisco-based company seeks to ramp up engagement while managing abusive content. […]

Mon 15 July 2019: To help keep toxic or irrelevant tweets at bay, Twitter is testing a new feature that will allow users to hide replies to their tweets.  In the official release, Twitter said that starting next week, users in Canada will see the option to hide replies to their tweets. To hide a reply […]

Sat 13 July 2019: With India pressing for traceability of WhatsApp messages to check the spread of fake news, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras on Wednesday stressed that the issue can be easily resolved without diluting end-to-end encryption and affecting the privacy of users. “If WhatsApp says it is not technically possible […]

Thu 11 July 2019: Twitter and Instagram would like us all to be a little bit nicer to each other. To that end, this week both companies announced new content moderation policies that will, maybe, shield users from the unbridled harassment and hate speech we wreak on each other. Instagram’s anti-bullying initiative will rely on artificial intelligence, while […]

Wed 10 July 2019: Twitter will begin deleting tweets that contain “dehumanizing language towards religious groups,” the first step in a content policing overhaul that promises to get complicated. Starting Tuesday, the social media platform will remove reported tweets that directly attack religious groups with “dehumanizing language.” For example, the company says that hypothetical tweets like “We need to exterminate […]

Tue 02 July 2019: Facebook Inc. evacuated four buildings and two people were being evaluated for possible exposure to the nerve agent sarin on Monday after a package at the social media company’s Silicon Valley mail facility tested positive for the toxic compound. The people who came in contact with the suspicious package at about […]

Sun 30 June 2019: A virus carrying an Israeli IP address has been found to be attacking Apple’s Mac computers through applications downloaded online. The virus, named OSX/Linker, was discovered by Intego’s cyber security personnel. Intego, which specializes in Apple products, is a subsidiary of Kape, which is owned by Teddy Sagi and operates in […]

Sat 29 June 2019: In the years after the July 20, 1969 moon landing during the Apollo 11 mission, NASA was recording over its tapes or selling them to cut costs, said Gary George, who was a college student when he bought more than 1,100 reels of NASA videotape for about $218 at a government […]

Fri 28 June 2019: Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp is testing a feature that would give users the option of sharing their status Stories directly on other social networking platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Gmail and Google Photos. Just like Instagram, WhatsApp’s status Stories let users post images, text and videos on your profile that disappear after […]

Thu 27 June 2019: (Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Thursday it would identify and deemphasize tweets that broke its rules but came from important sources, such as politicians, in order to strike a balance between free expression and accountability. The new feature comes as Twitter has been under scrutiny over political bias over […]