The massive Facebook outage last week definitely took us all by surprise. However, the tech giant is working on ensuring that won’t happen again, as it’s currently building in-app notifications that will alert users to “temporary issues” like outages or other technical difficulties. The notifications will be visible in users’ home page. The notifications are there to specifically alert users about app bugs and issues, such as Story uploads not working or large-scale outages. Before you frown at […]
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“Risk is our business,” James T. Kirk once said. “That’s what this starship is all about. That’s why we’re aboard her.” More than a half-century later, the performer who breathed life into the fabled Enterprise captain is, at age 90, making that kind of risk his own business and heading toward the stars under dramatically […]
Amazon said Monday it will allow many tech and corporate workers to continue working remotely indefinitely, as long as they can commute to the office when necessary. The new policy was announced in a blog post and is a change from Amazon’s previous expectation that most employees would need to be in the office at […]
Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo Group suffered a 17 percent drop in stock value on Monday, following the company’s move to extract its application of a $2.1 billion listing in Hong Kong trading. The Hong Kong-based manufacturer announced the withdrawal news days after the application was accepted by the Shanghai Star Market. The company’s shares plunged […]
Qatar has exceeded its own expectations within its telecom sector, as it takes in further expanding data demands imposed on local telcos throughout the pandemic, resulting in a shift to empower telecom services. Both in-house telcos Vodafone Qatar and Ooredoo Qatar migrated their infrastructures to 5G networks due to the expanded global availability of LTE […]
In response to the severe backlash Instagram has received over its negative impact on teens, parent company Facebook announced a new set of features in hopes of putting the issue to bed. Facebook vice president of global affairs Nick Clegg said during an interview with CNN State of the Union show that Facebook is going to “introduce something which I think will make a considerable difference, […]
We unconsciously generate data at a break-neck pace every day. Think about it; our smartphones have the capability to track each step we take, and every swipe we make, while smart watches can sense our vitals and store it in a wide data set. Google can signify our location with just one click, and media advertisers can figure out our hobbies, where we’re planning to go for […]
One month after the U.S. federal court issued its verdict on the Apple-Epic games lawsuit, the iPhone maker filed on Friday an appeal that could potentially put on hold any adjacent lawful ruling on the matter. In the Epic vs. Apple case ruling, judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers ruled that the Big Tech giant was indulging […]
For the second time in a row, Twitch is facing another round against cybercriminals, as the platform’s background game images were suddenly replaced on Sunday with photos of Jeff Bezos, former Amazon CEO. Users and content creators reported seeing images of Bezos in games such as GTA V, Dota 2, Smite, Minecraft, Apex Legends, and many more on the Amazon-owned site. It remains unclear how the platform got […]
A top British government official is backing a phone company’s proposal for a new tracking service to help protect women walking alone, an idea pitched amid ongoing outrage over the slayings of two young women who were targeted near their homes in London. The chief executive of Britain’s biggest phone company, BT, proposed the “walk […]