Fri 26 Apr 2019: WhatsApp. Wonderful, wonderful, WhatsApp. The messaging service that made BBM look boring and text messages redundant. Of course, there are now heaps of messaging services around, but WhatsApp had a massive head start on almost all of them, meaning it has tonnes of features. For those familiar with the beauty of the service, here […]
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Thu 18 Apr 2019: PALO ALTO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp recently rejected a California law enforcement agency’s request to install facial recognition technology in officers’ cars and body cameras due to human rights concerns, company President Brad Smith said on Tuesday. Microsoft concluded it would lead to innocent women and minorities being disproportionately held for […]
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Thu 18 Apr 2019: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Some of Samsung’s new, almost $2,000 folding phones appear to be breaking after just a couple of days. Journalists who received the phones to review before the public launch said the Galaxy Fold screen started flickering and turning black before completely fizzling out. Two journalists said they […]
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Thu 18 Apr 2019: The social network will also change the way tributes can be left to those who have died Facebook is to introduce artificial intelligence to stop friends and family members receiving notifications about the profiles of those who have died. Profiles on the social media site stay active after a person dies, […]
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Wed 17 Apr 2019: LONDON — When Samsung said this year it would launch a smartphone with a folding screen, the big question was whether the innovation was something people actually wanted or needed. Is the Galaxy Fold a gimmick to help sell more smartphones in a slowing market or a true breakthrough that will […]
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Wed 17 Apr 2019: Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it had suspended 100,000 accounts for creating new accounts after a suspension during January-March period, a 45 percent increase from last year. “Previously, we only reviewed potentially abusive Tweets if they were reported to us. We know that’s not acceptable, so earlier this year we made […]
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Sun 14 Apr 2019: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The world’s largest aircraft took off over the Mojave Desert in California on Saturday, the first flight for the carbon-composite plane built by Stratolaunch Systems Corp, started by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, as the company enters the lucrative private space market. The white airplane called Roc, […]
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Wed 10 Apr 2019: Australian aviation authority Casa approves Alphabet’s Project Wing, which delivers food, drinks and medication A world-first drone delivery business has been granted approval to take to the skies over Canberra’s north. For the past 18 months, Project Wing, an offshoot of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has been trialling drone delivery of food and […]
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Tue 9 Apr 2019: Executives from Google and Facebook are facing Congress Tuesday to answer questions about their role in the spread of hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism in the U.S. Neil Potts, Facebook’s director of public policy and Alexandria Walden, counsel for free expression and human rights at Google, will speak […]
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Mon 8 Apr 2019 LONDON (AP) — The U.K. unveiled plans on Monday to vastly increase government oversight of social media companies, with a first of its kind watchdog that could fine executives or even ban companies if they fail to block content such as terrorist propaganda or images of child abuse. As concerns mount […]
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