Microsoft expands cloud service in push for $10 billion Pentagon contract
Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday its expanded Azure cloud service to help government clients save data on their own servers would be available by the end of the first quarter of 2019, as it battles with...
View ArticleAmazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
SAN FRANCISCO : Amazon.com Inc’s machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women. The team had been building computer programs since 2014 to review...
View ArticleSnapchat announces new scripted shows to win over users
Snapchat on Wednesday announced new scripted shows for its photo messaging app Snapchat which will launch this fall and struck partnerships with Hollywood production companies and writers in hopes of...
View ArticleA wagging finger sticking out of your mobile phone is creepy. Why?
PARIS : A French researcher has invented a robot finger that attaches to your mobile phone. It can wriggle across your desk. It can stroke your hand. And guess what? It’s creepy. No, really, watch the...
View ArticleFacebook breach: Hackers stole details of 29 million users
Facebook Inc said Friday attackers stole names and contact details of 29 million users in the mass security breach disclosed by the social media network late last month. The breach, Facebook’s worst...
View ArticleWhatsApp set to make major change to ‘delete for everyone’ feature
WhatsApp is all set to make a major change to its ‘delete for everyone’ feature. Launched last year, the feature initially allowed users to delete a message within seven minutes of sending it. Later,...
View ArticleMicrosoft co-founder Paul Allen dies of cancer: family
SAN FRANCISCO : Billionaire Paul Allen, who founded US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in the 1970s, died Monday after his latest battle with cancer. He was 65. “My brother was a remarkable...
View ArticleYouTube says looking into reports of user access issues
YouTube, the Google-owned streaming service, said it was looking into reports of issues with its services after several people took to Twitter to complain about broadcasting issues. “Thanks for your...
View ArticleFacebook launches ‘war room’ to combat manipulation
MENLO PARK : In Facebook’s “War Room,” a nondescript space adorned with American and Brazilian flags, a team of 20 people monitors computer screens for signs of suspicious activity. The freshly...
View ArticleApple CEO urges Bloomberg to retract spy chip story
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook on Friday told an online news website that Bloomberg should retract a story that claimed Apple’s internal computer systems had been infiltrated by malicious computer...
View ArticleElon Musk says first tunnel is almost done, opens December 10: tweet
NEW YORK: A company owned by Elon Musk that is trying to lower the cost of building high-speed transit tunnels is nearing completion on the first tunnel, Musk said on Twitter on Sunday. The first...
View ArticleWhatsApp flooded with fake news in Brazil election
BRASILIA : WhatsApp has become a political battleground in Brazil’s most polarized election in decades, raising concerns that it is distorting debate beyond the public eye. Facebook has touted efforts...
View ArticleFacebook closes ‘spam’ pages, accounts helping Brazil presidential candidate
BRASÍLIA : Social media platform Facebook has closed 68 pages and 43 accounts linked to a marketing group believed to be promoting the chances of Brazilian right-wing presidential candidate Jair...
View ArticleApple, Samsung fined by Italy for slowing phones
ROME : Italy’s competition authority on Wednesday said it was fining Apple and Samsung 10 and five million euros ($11.5 and $5.7 million) respectively for the “planned obsolescence” of their...
View ArticleGoogle says fired 48 for sexual harassment over two years
Google said Thursday it fired 48 employees in the past two years, including 13 senior executives, as a result of sexual harassment allegations, citing “an increasingly hard line” on inappropriate...
View ArticleSnapchat parent pressured by drop in users
SAN FRANCISCO : Snapchat parent Snap came under selling pressure Thursday after a quarterly report showing a loss of one million users even as it grew revenues and narrowed losses. The California group...
View ArticleMicrosoft overtakes Amazon as second most valuable US company
SAN FRANCISCO : Microsoft regained its spot as the second most valuable US company on Friday after a disappointing quarterly report from Amazon.com wiped $65 billion off the online retailer’s market...
View ArticleAnother executive out amid sexual harassment tension at Google
Google parent Alphabet on Wednesday confirmed that an executive accused of sexual harassment left the company without an exit package as tension over its handling of such matters heightened. Word that...
View ArticleTwitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage US voting
WASHINGTON : Twitter deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting in Tuesday’s US election and wrongly appeared to be from Democrats after the party...
View ArticleDespite crackdown, ‘junk news’ still flourishes on social media
Despite an aggressive crackdown by social media firms, so-called “junk news” is spreading at a greater rate than in 2016 on social media ahead of the US midterm elections, according to researchers....
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