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Facebook software that allows you to login to Spotify, Tinder, Pinterest blamed for apps crashing

Facebook software that allows you to login to Spotify, Tinder,...

The crashes Friday happened even if users were not logged in to the apps using Facebook.

11 July 2020 12:47 PM GMT

Compared to Zoom, Libero has additional features like white board, meeting notes and noise cancellation, the developer said, adding that it was also more secure.

Southern startup Soulpage wins government funding to develop...

Finalist in a competition run by the Union government, the developer receives Rs 15 lakh from the Ministry of...

11 July 2020 11:58 AM GMT

School students in Minnesota protest in front of a billboard advertising gay conversion therapy in 2015. (Photo | Medium James Finn - The Blog)

Quackery not allowed: Posts claiming to change gays' sexual...

The move is an extension of an existing ban on ads that promote conversion therapy, which medical experts consider...

11 July 2020 10:43 AM GMT

Protesters link arms while facing off against a police officer near the district attorneys office Thursday, July 9, 2020, in Salt Lake City. Two police officers in Utah were cleared earlier Thursday in the death of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, an armed man shot at more than 30 times as he ran from police, a decision that prompted his grieving family to heighten their calls for systematic changes to law enforcement. (Photo | AP)

Server of Wikileaks-like whistleblower collective seized in Germany...

DDoSecrets founder Emma Best said the data, dubbed BlueLeaks, comes from more than 200 agencies.

10 July 2020 4:03 PM GMT

An artist concept of NASAs Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission. (Image | NASA/JPL)

Missions to Mars have been sent since the 1960s, here's where we are...

Three missions to the Red Planet are scheduled in July, by UAE, China and the United States.

10 July 2020 2:47 PM GMT

In the Occupational Therapy outpatient clinic, Marine Sgt. Byron Bell builds up his grip strength by performing specialised exercises.(Representative Image | US Navy)

New robotic arm helps people with cerebral palsy and victims of trauma...

The Indian Institute of Science has designed an eye-gaze controlled robotic arm to put them on par with non-disabled...

10 July 2020 1:53 PM GMT

An artists concept of a Mars Ascent Vehicle (left) releasing a sample container (right) high above the Martian surface. The UAE has a goal of building a human settlement on Mars by 2117. The Mars probe project, beyond scientific goals, is also designed to inspire a region too often beset by turmoil, and recall the heyday of scientific advances during the Middle Ages. (Image | NASA)

Mars probe next for UAE space mission, which has sent one Emirati and...

The 1,350-kg probe named Al-Amal, meaning Hope, is due to blast off from Japan's Tanegashima Space Centre on July 15.

10 July 2020 12:19 PM GMT

Level 5 autonomy means a vehicle can handle any situation, any weather or terrain without human assistancea tall order despite Elon Musks claims Tesla was nearing it. (Photo | Pixabay - Lobpreis)

It's hyberbole, Musk can't bring out a fully automated Tesla this...

Developers are starting to realise the limits of artificial intelligence and the benefits of the human brain in handling...

10 July 2020 11:32 AM GMT

U.S. senators questioned Clearview, which offers facial recognition services to police, this year over privacy concerns and the possible sale of its services to authoritarian regimes while Facebook, YouTube and Twitter demanded it stop collecting their users images. (Photo | US Customs and Border Protection)

Facial recognition firm Clearview pulled up for harvesting Facebook,...

Information Commissioners of UK and Australia are scrutinising the US startup on violations of user privacy.

9 July 2020 3:51 PM GMT

TikToks parent company, ByteDance, has a similar app for mainland China called Douyin that does share users data with the Chinese government, and is available in Hong Kong. (Photo | AFP)

TikTok's astute exit from Hong Kong will likely keep it going in the...

It is a win-win' move for TikTok as it does not risk angering China by refusing to share user data, but it can focus on...

9 July 2020 3:27 PM GMT

The case stems from a German film distributors request that YouTube provide details about users who had uploaded the films Parker and Scary Movie 5 . (Photo | Descrier.co.uk - Lord Jim)

No need to reveal online pirates' IP address: EU Court

Online platforms like YouTube just need to provide the user's postal address under European rules on intellectual...

9 July 2020 2:08 PM GMT

The UAEs surveillance state can offer the parlor trick of finding your car at the massive, multistory parking garage of Mall of the Emirates. But multiplied across the cameras watching public spaces, buses, the driverless Metro, roadways, gas stations and even all the emirates more than 10,000 taxi cabs, authorities in effect can track people in real time across Dubai. Seen here is the Ain Dubai, the worlds tallest Ferris wheel. (Photo | AFP)

Dissent suppression apart, UAE using its extensive surveillance...

Many of the CCTV cameras and thermal scanners used by the UAE come from China.

9 July 2020 12:43 PM GMT