Facebook is launching a campaign to help people spot fake news amid a growing advertising boycott putting pressure on the company to tackle misinformation and hate speech.
Steve Hatch, Facebook's vice president for Northern Europe, says the media literacy campaign launched with fact-checkers FullFact i...
READ MORE
Cloud gaming, by nature, is also enough to turn heads: It expands the audience for premium games beyond the current console and PC audience by making them accessible anywhere, at any time, and on any device. That huge addressable market is creating a lucrative and growing opportunity for companies gearing up to enter the space, providing a long runway for growth.
...
Google is changing its default settings to automatically delete some of the data it collects about users.
Web and app activity, including a log of website searches and pages visited, as well as location data, will now be wiped after 18 months.
YouTube histories - inc...
READ MORE
Germany’s smartphone app to help trace coronavirus infections has been downloaded 6.5 million times in the first 24 hours since its launch, the chief executive of software company SAP said on Wednesday.
Christian Klein said the strong public reception was testimony to the collaboration between teams from SAP and Deutsche Telek...
READ MORE
Microsoft has decided to close its Mixer livestreaming service and is partnering with Facebook Gaming instead.
Mixer made headlines last year when it signed a reportedly multi-million dollar exclusivity deal with Ninja, a big star on rival platform Twitch.
But despite the investment, Microsoft says the platform will close in one month's time.
Ninja and other major gamers will no longer b...
READ MORE
Google Chrome extensions downloaded more than 32 million times were used to spy on the popular browser's users in a massive global surveillance campaign, according...
READ MORE
A Covid-19 tracing software tool has appeared in the settings of both Android phones and iPhones as part of an update of their operating systems.
The "exposure notification" tool is switched off by default, and is not a tracing app itself.
It enables an app to run in the background while still using Bluetooth.
This lets the app measure the distance between two handsets - and then...
READ MORE
Huawei poses challenges to national security and has engaged in unacceptable acts, Google's former boss Eric Schmidt has told the BBC.
But he says the West should respond by competing with China and its technologies, rather than disengaging.
Mr Schmidt now chairs the Pentagon's De...
READ MORE
Apple faces two European Commission probes into whether it has broken competition rules.
One investigation centres on iPad and iPhones being limited to installing apps from Apple's own App Store, among other restrictions imposed on third-party developers.
The other involves Apple Pay, with one issue being that other services cannot...
READ MORE
Babylon Health has acknowledged that its GP video appointment app has suffered a data breach.
The firm was alerted to the problem after one of its users discovered he had been given access to dozens of video recordings of other patients' consultations. A follow-up check by Babylon revealed a small number of further UK users could also see others' sessions. The firm said it had si...
READ MORE
Huawei is launching a newspaper and internet campaign to mark 20 years of business in the UK.
In an open letter to the public, the Chinese telecoms company says...
READ MORE
At a time when deadly coronavirus infections are on the rise around the world, a platform called "Food for Nation" has been set up by the “Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project” of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under the ICT Division using the country's information and technology. A number of...
READ MORE
There is a huge demand has been created for ventilators around the world due to Noble Coronavirus treatment but the supply is very limited in that proportion. There also many complications have been seen in the production and import of medical equipment because of lockdowns around the world. On the other hand, the least developed or developing countries are struggling to fulfill the demand f...
READ MORE
