Facebook Facebook taps London police to track terror livestreams24matins.uk - By Glenn CHAPMAN, Facebook on Tuesday teamed up with the London police to help its artificial intelligence tools track livestreams of terror attacks such as the New …
Facebook Facebook taps London police to track terror livestreams24matins.uk - By Dmitry ZAKS, Facebook on Tuesday teamed up with the London police to help its artificial intelligence tools track livestreams of terror attacks such as the New …
Jerry Seinfeld After losing ‘Friends,’ Netflix buys rights to ‘Seinfeld’24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, Streaming giant Netflix said Monday it had acquired the global rights to popular American sitcom “Seinfeld” from 2021 — a feather in its cap as the …
YouTube YouTube ‘creators’ fret over impact of new child protection rules24matins.uk - By Julie JAMMOT, Samuel Rader quit his job three years ago to work full time on his YouTube channel, “Sam and Nia,” featuring videos of his family life. The channel …
Paypal PayPal cautious about future of Libra cryptocurrency24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, PayPal is cautious about the future of Facebook-backed cryptocurrency Libra, which is slated to debut with the pioneering digital payments firm as …
Instagram London selfie shop lets Instagram generation strike a pose24matins.uk - By Robin MILLARD, Posing in a bath of pink balls or throwing up handfuls of multicoloured confetti, teenagers and 20-somethings snap away at a purpose-built London …
Uber Uber trims more staff as it seeks a route to profit24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, Uber on Tuesday said it was laying off about eight percent of its product and engineering teams as the smartphone-summoned ride service tries to map …
Jack Ma Smooth succession : Jack Ma eases out of a thriving Alibaba24matins.uk - By Kelly WANG, Dan Martin, Jack Ma steps down next week as chairman of Alibaba, but the start-up he built into and online retail behemoth is expected to keep thriving into a …
Google DoJ seeks Google records as US states launch antitrust probe of Big Tech24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, The US Department of Justice has asked Google to provide records on past investigations, as part of its extensive probe of tech giants over possible …
TripAdvisor TripAdvisor ‘failing to stop fake reviews’ : study24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, US travel and restaurant website TripAdvisor has failed to do enough to stop fake hotel reviews, British consumer association Which? said in a study …
Chinese Communist Party Blocked Chinese Twitter accounts misinformed for years : think tank24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, Hundreds of Chinese accounts suspended by Twitter were part of a disinformation operation for years targeting critics of China‘s ruling Communist …
Investing Telegram secretly plans ‘Gram’ cryptocurrency24matins.uk - By Andrea PALASCIANO, Working in secrecy for a year, the Telegram messaging service has a plan: to beat Facebook in the race to launch a cryptocurrency with its new …
Currency Could cryptocurrency dethrone the dollar?24matins.uk - By Kevin TRUBLET, Bank of England governor Mark Carney has suggested that a virtual currency, modelled on Facebook’s Libra, could one day replace the dollar as king of …
YouTube Google to pay out $150-200m over YouTube privacy claims : reports24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, Google will pay $150-200 million to settle allegations YouTube violated a children’s privacy law while gathering data to better target its adverts, …
iPhone Google reveals years-long ‘indiscriminate’ iPhone hack24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, Google security experts uncovered an “indiscriminate” hacking operation that targeted iPhones over a period of at least two years and used websites …
France US, France reach agreement on digital taxes24matins.uk - By Adam PLOWRIGHT with Clare BYRNE in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday G7 members had reached an agreement on the taxation of tech giants, a long-standing subject of friction …
Google Google tells workers to avoid arguing politics in house24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, Google on Friday told employees to focus on work instead of heated debates about politics with colleagues at the internet company, which has long …
Amazon Rainforest Amazon fires : how celebrities are spreading misinformation24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, Many high-profile figures seeking to denounce the fires in the Amazon — from Madonna and Cristiano Ronaldo to Leonardo DiCaprio and Emmanuel Macron — …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHong Kong Protests Google says YouTube campaign targeted Hong Kong protests24matins.uk - By Glenn CHAPMAN, Google on Thursday said it disabled a series of YouTube channels that appeared to be part of a coordinated influence campaign against pro-democracy …
Fraud US charges 80 in internet fraud and money laundering scheme24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, US authorities on Thursday announced charges against 80 people, most of them Nigerians, in a wide-ranging fraud and money laundering operation that …
Otters ‘Otterly adorable’? : Demand for cute selfies puts animals at risk24matins.uk - By Nina LARSON, Social media users are fuelling a burgeoning appetite for acquiring wild otters and other endangered animals as pets, conservationists say, warning …
Chinese University of Hong Kong Banned at home but thriving abroad : China’s social media campaign24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, More than 78 million Facebook users follow the page of the state-run China Daily, where they are served a diet of largely positive — and …
eSports Gamers risk health in bid to be eSports millionaires24matins.uk - By Peter STEBBINGS, A record $33.5 million is up for grabs but professional eSports players like those competing in The International in Shanghai this week pay a …
Digital Economy US states ready antitrust probe of tech titans : report24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, Top prosecutors from a group of US states are readying a joint investigation into whether major technology firms have violated antitrust law, the …
Amazon Google, Facebook, Amazon decry French digital tax as ‘discriminatory’24matins.uk - By Virginie MONTET, American tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google joined forces on Monday to decry the French digital tax as retroactive and discriminatory. President …
Employees urge Google not to work with US immigration officials24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, Hundreds of Google employees on Wednesday called on the internet titan to avoid working for US immigration officials until they stop “engaging in …
Food courier Deliveroo pulls out of Germany24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, British food delivery company Deliveroo said Monday it would pull out of Germany entirely this week, saying it plans to focus on more promising …
Huawei launches first product with own operating system24matins.uk - By 24matins.uk with AFP, Chinese telecom giant Huawei, which has been caught in the crossfires of the Washington-Beijing trade war, on Saturday unveiled a new smart …
Surge in false online videos of Chinese military crackdown in HK24matins.uk - By Cat Barton, Rachel Yan, Videos falsely claiming to show a Chinese military crackdown against pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have flooded social media over the past …
