Signal Now Supports 40 Person Group Calls
Encrypted messaging app Signal has announced that it now supports 40 participants on group calls.
Meta Develops AI To Bring Children’s Drawings To Life
Meta (formerly Facebook) researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that can identify and automatically animate the human-like figures in children's drawings with a high success rate, and without any human guidance.
Credit Card Info Of 1.8 Million People Stolen From Sports Gear Sites
Four affiliated online sports gear sites have disclosed a cyberattack where threat actors stole credit cards for 1,813,224 customers.
US Hits Facebook’s Metaverse With Probe In $400 Million VR Deal
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened an antitrust probe in Meta's plan to buy the popular virtual reality (VR) fitness app Supernatural for over $400 million, as the social network begins its journey towards creating Metaverse, the media reported.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Discovers Organic Chemicals On Mars
Scientists at NASA's Perseverance Mars rover mission have discovered that rocks in the Jezero Crater on the Red Planet have interacted with water multiple times over the eons and that some contain organic molecules.
TikTok To Tweak Its Algorithm To Avoid Problematic Content
TikTok has announced that it is changing 'For You Page' algorithm to "avoid showing users too much of the same content".
Meta Alerts 50k Users On Being Targeted By ‘Surveillance-For-Hire’ Entities
Meta has alerted around 50,000 users that their accounts were spied on by commercial 'surveillance-for-hire' schemes around the globe.
Meta Brings Signal Language Interpreters For Portal Video Calls
Meta has added video relay services (VRS) to its Portal video calling devices, to bring English or Spanish sign language interpreters into video conversations.
France Orders Clearview AI To Delete Facial Recognition Data
rance's data privacy watchdog CNIL has ordered controversial facial recognition start-up Clearview AI that has collected 10 billion images worldwide to stop using data from people based in the country.
Snap Launches Standalone ‘Story Studio’ Video Editing App
Snap Inc, the parent company of Snapchat, has launched a new standalone video editing app 'Story Studio' for iPhone users in the US, the UK, and Canada.
Virginia Tax Preparer Sentenced To Prison For False Returns
A Virginia man was sentenced today to 38 months in prison for preparing false tax returns on behalf of clients, theft of government funds, and failing to file his own federal income tax returns.
Amazon Web Services Launches Region In Indonesia
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region.
Twitter Adds Automatically Generated Captions For All Videos
The Micro-blogging site Twitter on Wednesday announced that it has started rolling out automatic captions for videos.
6 More Women Sue Tesla For Rampant Sexual Harassment
A Washington Post report said that six more women who work at Tesla's Fremont, California-based factory and service center have filed lawsuits against the company.
Instagram Hits 2 Billion Users But Won’t Disclose It To The World
Meta-owned American photo and video sharing social networking service Instagram has reportedly hit two billion monthly active users, but the photo-sharing platform may not officially disclose these figures as it faces intense scrutiny over its alleged role in damaging the mental health of kids and...
Google To Stop Salaries And Eventually Fire Unvaccinated Employees
Tech giant Google has told its employees that they will lose their salaries and eventually be fired if they fail to fully vaccinate themselves and follow Covid-19 rules as mandated by the US administration.
Report Links Huawei To China’s Domestic Spying In Xinjiang
Chinese tech conglomerate Huawei has reportedly been linked to domestic spying in the Xinjiang region while building technology for labour and re-education camps as well as surveillance systems in the western Chinese region largely populated by Uyghur Muslims.
This Man Accidentally Sold A $300k ‘Bored Ape’ NFT For $3k
The 'Bored App Yacht Club' NFT was bought instantaneously by a bot on the trading platform.
Man Pleads Guilty Sexual Assault Of Child In Grenada
A New York man pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of New York to sexually assaulting a five-year-old child abroad.
Elon Musk Chosen As Time’s Person Of 2021
Billionaire Elon Musk has been chosen as the "Time's person of the year".
