Fri 19 April 2024: Social media app TikTok by ByteDance is set to introduce a photo sharing app just like Instagram, reportedly named “TikTok Notes,” Jerusalem Post reported. The new app will contain all existing captioning features of TikTok and new features such as a much wider design spectrum than Instagram. Screenshots from a statement by TikTok […]
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Fri 19 April 2024: Playing games in class may help university students achieve better grades, new research in the United Kingdom (UK) has revealed. Including games in subjects such as economics and statistics leads to a significant drop in the number of students failing their courses, the research by the University of Warwick shows. The […]
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Thu 18 April 2024: Authorities in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday announced a temporary suspension of access to the popular TikTok platform. Following a request from the Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security, the Digital Development Ministry has decided to implement restrictions on access to TikTok by April 18. Upon reviewing the request, the ministry found it […]
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Thu 18 April 2024: In order to facilitate its users, Meta-owned WhatsApp will introduce a new feature to list recent online contacts, WABetaInfo reported on Tuesday. The online platform, that tracks updates on popular messaging service, revealed that the feature to list recent online contacts is available to some beta testers that install the latest […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: Elon Musk has announced to charge a small fee from users for tweeting on social media platform X to fight bots and fake users, Pymnts reported. Last October, the company began experimenting by charging a $1 subscription fee annually from users in the Philippines and New Zealand. Musk may apply a strategy similar […]
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Wed 17 April 2024: International hackers have launched a dedicated website for releasing information obtained from recent breaches into sensitive Israeli databases, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Tuesday. The site has already posted thousands of documents reportedly acquired by infiltrating systems associated with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the National Insurance, the Ministry of Justice, and […]
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Tue 16 April 2024: It can be absolutely frightening to think about the possibility of someone else gaining access to our smartphone. In films, hackers are portrayed as enigmatic characters wearing sweatshirts who can cause chaos with a few keystrokes. However, it’s not always the end of the world when a phone is hacked. Regaining […]
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Sun 14 April 2024: The British government should communicate its messages to young people using TikTok, the British House of Commons said in a report on Friday. The call was made in the Trusted Voices report by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in the House of Commons following an inquiry into the role of […]
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Sat 13 April 2024: The algorithms that Big Tech designed – and the genocide they assisted. The Listening Post explores how Israel’s killing campaign of Palestinians has relied on artificial intelligence to choose its targets. A dystopian nightmare serves as a marketing campaign for technology flawed by design, and deepens the global digital divide. Contributors: […]
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Sat 13 April 2024: The scientists replicated the visage of a 16th-century woman, who was thought to be a vampire by the Italian people, bringing a scary narrative alive. In the rebuilt face, a brick appeared lodged in her mouth, presumably to prevent her from eating up the deceased. The story behind this… The story […]
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