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Twitter seeking talks with India after order to remove accounts

Reuters 2021-02-09 09:39:47

Twitter said on Monday it was seeking talks with India’s technology minister, days after the country asked the US social media giant to take down 1,178 accounts it says are spreading misinformat...

Chip designer Dialog confirms $6.0b Renesas offer talks

-- 2021-02-08 11:01:01

Japan’s Renesas Electronics Corp has said it is in talks to buy British-based Dialog Semiconductor in a deal that would bolster its automotive chip business and value the Apple Inc supplier at a...

Google opens paid-for Australia news platform

-- 2021-02-06 11:22:54

Tech giant Google on Friday launched a platform in Australia offering news it has paid for, striking its own content deals with publishers in a drive to show legislation proposed by Canberra to enforc...

Scientists discover tiny chameleon that can fit on fingertip

Reuters 2021-02-05 16:46:37

Scientists say they discovered a sunflower seed-sized subspecies of chameleon that may well be the smallest reptile on Earth. Two of the miniature lizards, one male and one female, were discovered by...

Google phone cameras to read heart, breathing rates

-- 2021-02-05 14:05:04

Cameras on Google Pixel smartphones will be able to measure heart and breathing rates starting next month, in one of the first applications of Alphabet Inc’s artificial intelligence technology t...

Instagram disables hundreds of accounts tied to hacking

-- 2021-02-05 12:25:54

Facebook Inc on Thursday took down hundreds of Instagram accounts that were hacked and sold for their high-value usernames, including the accounts of people behind this activity. A Facebook spokeswom...

Spotify outlook weakens as uncertainty persists

-- 2021-02-04 11:20:09

Spotify on Wednesday forecast that revenue and paid subscribers would miss Wall Street estimates this quarter due to uncertainty over how long the coronavirus crisis would last and with it a surge in...

Facebook bans page linked to Myanmar military TV

Reuters 2021-02-03 11:07:02

Facebook said on Tuesday it had removed a page linked to Myanmar’s military-owned TV network after a coup this week by the country’s military leaders. UN human rights investigators previo...

Wikipedia launches new rules to fight site abuses

Reuters 2021-02-02 19:45:12

The foundation that operates Wikipedia will launch its first global code of conduct on Tuesday, seeking to address criticism that it has failed to combat harassment and suffers from a lack of diversit...

South Korean's AI technology brings back folk singer's voice

Reuters 2021-02-02 13:42:57

Even though South Korean folk rock singer Kim Kwang-seok has been dead for nearly 25 years, his fans will be able to hear him perform a new song cover on Friday thanks to artificial intelligence (AI)...

Microsoft talks Bing with Australia PM as Google plans exit from the country

Reuters 2021-02-01 11:20:13

Software giant Microsoft Corp is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said...

EU hearing of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google pushed back by 2 months

-- 2021-01-30 13:09:50

EU lawmakers, who are gearing up to curb the power of US tech giants, have told Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet that they are willing to push back a proposed Feb. 1 hearing by two months. The Eu...

Govt plans to develop another software technology park in Dhaka

-- 2021-01-29 18:59:08

State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said the government plans to develop a second software technology park in Dhaka to create skilled IT professionals. The announcement came at the opening...

Apple's Cook criticises social media practices, intensifying Facebook conflict

Reuters 2021-01-29 11:25:27

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook on Thursday criticised polarisation and misinformation on social media, intensifying a conflict between the iPhone maker and Facebook. In remarks delivered at t...

Google to stop using Apple tool to track iPhone users

-- 2021-01-28 12:01:36

Google’s iPhone apps such as Maps and YouTube will stop using a tool from Apple Inc that allows them to personalise ads, avoiding a new Apple warning that informs users their browsing is being t...

Twitter suspends My Pillow CEO for election misinformation

Reuters 2021-01-27 11:03:49

Twitter has permanently suspended the account of My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell for repeated violations of the company’s policy on election misinformation, the social media firm said. L...

Facebook blocks Israel's Netanyahu chatbot

Reuters 2021-01-26 13:05:49

Facebook said on Monday it removed a post and suspended a messenger bot from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s page, after it posted that he wanted phone numbers to call and convince p...

Sophia makers plan mass rollout amid pandemic

REUTERS 2021-01-26 11:03:43

“Social robots like me can take care of the sick or elderly,” Sophia says as she conducts a tour of her lab in Hong Kong. “I can help communicate, give therapy and provide social sti...

Google workers to form global union alliance

REUTERS 2021-01-26 10:46:28

Google employees from across the globe are forming a union alliance, weeks after workers at the search engine giant and other units of parent company Alphabet Inc formed a labor union for US and Canad...

Twitter introduces tool to tackle misinformation

REUTERS 2021-01-26 10:32:48

Twitter Inc said on Monday it launched a pilot programme that has users flag tweets that they believe are misleading and write notes to provide context. The project, called Birdwatch, is initially of...

Elon Musk's SpaceX launches record spacecraft in cosmic rideshare programme

Reuters 2021-01-25 13:05:03

A veteran rocket from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX aerospace company launched 143 spacecraft into space on Sunday, a new record for the most spaceships deployed on a single missio...

'Boeing fleet will be able to fly on 100pc biofuel by 2030'

Reuters 2021-01-23 10:51:36

Boeing Co said on Friday (US standard time) it will begin delivering commercial aeroplanes capable of flying on 100 per cent biofuel by the end of the decade, calling reducing environmental damage fro...

Google threatens to block search engine in Australia if forced to pay for news

REUTERS 2021-01-22 15:49:37

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it would block its search engine in Australia if the government proceeds with a new code that would force it and Facebook Inc to pay media companies for the...

Facebook hands Trump ban decision to oversight board

Reuters 2021-01-22 12:49:45

Facebook on Thursday said it was referring its decision to indefinitely suspend the accounts of former US President Donald Trump to its independent oversight board. Trump will remain suspended while...

Indian parliamentary panel to question Facebook on WhatsApp's privacy policy

Reuters 2021-01-21 14:27:09

An Indian parliamentary panel on Thursday will question Facebook executives on concerns around WhatsApp’s privacy policy changes, a source said, days after the technology ministry asked the mess...

Twitter locks China's US embassy account over Xinjiang tweet

-- 2021-01-21 12:53:05

Twitter has locked the account of China’s US embassy for a tweet that defended China’s policies in the Xinjiang region, which the US social media platform said violated the firm’s po...

Marketing, sports data apps being used in fight against Covid-19

-- 2021-01-21 11:06:13

Devices designed for improving customer marketing and sports performance are now being used in the fight against Covid-19 as companies deploy their technologies to meet new needs during the pandemic....

Gene therapy developed to delay ageing

Reuters 2021-01-21 10:37:09

Scientists in Beijing have developed a new gene therapy which can reverse some of the effects of ageing in mice and extend their lifespans, findings which may one day contribute to similar treatment f...

Chinese scientists develop gene therapy which could delay ageing

Reuters 2021-01-20 18:11:13