Tue 02 July 2024: The European Commission (EC) has charged Meta with violating the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) through its new “pay or consent” advertising model. This charge follows the tech giant’s introduction of a no-ads subscription service for Facebook and Instagram in Europe last November. The EC’s action is the latest in its […]
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Mon 01 July 2024: The World Economic Forum (WEF) unveiled its Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024 report this week. Leading the list is “artificial intelligence (AI) for scientific discovery,” which has revolutionized research, especially in health-related areas, providing new insights into diseases. The report highlights AI’s significant impact on researchers’ understanding of new materials […]
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Sun 30 June 2024: Spam calls have surged in recent years. Spam numbers are hard to manually ban because they continually coming up. Android users, however, have a fix for this issue. One key function of the Google Phone app is spam prevention. To improve caller ID, it makes use of Google’s vast database of […]
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Fri 28 June 2024: Recently, one of my acquaintances, Frank, received an email late on a Monday afternoon with the subject line, “Are you still in the office?” It appeared to come from his manager, who claimed to be stuck in a long meeting without the means to urgently purchase online gift vouchers for clients. […]
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Wed 26 June 2024: Google has reportedly decided to discontinue its infinite scrolling features to bring in its classic pagination bar for desktop users, allowing them to directly get to a specific page of search results by simply clicking “Next.” The endless scrolling feature was first introduced for mobile devices in October 2021 and later […]
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Wed 26 June 2024: Astronomers have uncovered unexpected structures in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced Tuesday. “Scientists have found intricate features above Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot,” said ESA Webb Telescope on X. Previously thought to be “unremarkable,” the region hosts “intricate features, including […]
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Tue 25 June 2024: A team of US researchers has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that could help electrical grids prevent power outages by automatically rerouting electricity in milliseconds. The automated system, published online in the journal Nature Communications, is an early example of “self-healing grid” technology, which uses AI to detect and repair […]
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Mon 24 June 2024: Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) announced on Monday that patient data was published online following a severe ransomware attack on the Synnovis diagnostics service, used by several major London hospitals earlier this month. NHS England stated that Synnovis, a partnership between the hospitals and the German company Synlab, is conducting further […]
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Mon 24 June 2024: YouTube is enhancing its user privacy protections to address Deepfake content, which involves AI-generated manipulations of faces or voices. The platform now allows users to report any content that misuses their face or voice through AI. This update is part of an improved privacy complaint process, providing users with a form […]
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Sun 23 June 2024: Meta has brought in three new interesting features to WhatsApp, making the messaging app more convenient and fun to use. According to reports from WABetaInfo, the latest WhatsApp update will offer three options at the bottom of a video call — filters, backgrounds and effects. The filter tab will offer features like […]
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