Facebook is pushing back against claims made by The Wall Street Journal, describing the content of the reports as “deliberate mischaracterizations” and “conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook’s leadership and employees.” It’s becoming a lot more difficult for people to believe that Facebook is contributing more good than harm, after The Wall Street Journal published […]
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Facebook removed almost 150 accounts and pages linked to anti-lockdown demonstrators in Germany, the company announced Thursday, under a new policy focused on groups that spread misinformation or incite violence but who don’t fit into the platform’s existing categories of bad actors. The accounts on Facebook and Instagram spread content linked to the so-called Querdenken […]
Remember when Amazon took the tech industry by surprise when it launched its palm-scanning technology to provide customers with the option of purchasing goods at Whole Foods and its own cashier-less stores? Well, the retail giant is now responsible for expanding its palm-scanning tech to allow fans to enter sports, music, and other live entertainment […]
Microsoft told employees Thursday that it has indefinitely delayed their return to U.S. offices until it’s safer to do so. “Given the uncertainty of COVID-19, we’ve decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening of our U.S. work sites,” Jared Spataro, a corporate vice president, wrote in a blog post. Microsoft […]
In pre-COVID times, business events _ from small academic conferences to giant trade shows like CES _ routinely attracted more than 1 billion participants each year. The pandemic brought those global gatherings to a sudden halt, emptying convention centers and shuttering hotels. More than a year later, in-person meetings are on the rebound. In late […]
Under U.S. pretense that the Chinese telecom vendor Huawei could expose the Gulf to national security threats, United Arab Emirates (UAE) telco firms are urged by U.S. Lockheed Martin’s F-35 jets and drones’ sales deal to push Huawei from its 5G infrastructure contracts. The UAE has always held a fierce stance concerning its strong mobile […]
Ask anyone old enough to remember travel before Sept. 11, 2001, and you’re likely to get a gauzy recollection of what flying was like. There was security screening, but it wasn’t anywhere near as intrusive. There were no long checkpoint lines. Passengers and their families could walk right to the gate together, postponing goodbye hugs […]
Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby’s drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori — an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to the line cooks. “It doesn’t call sick,” says Amir Siddiqi, whose family installed the AI voice at its Arby’s […]
The Ericsson Mobility Report states that 5G mobile subscriptions will exceed half a billion by the end of 2021 — making 5G the fastest adopted mobile generation in history. The 4G rollout taught mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) that they must take a more proactive approach if they are to successfully compete with larger mobile […]
The smartphone industry will experience one of its best years in equipment manufacturing, despite the current global health crisis and semiconductor shortage, Gartner and IDC revealed in a new research. According to technology research firm Gartner, global smartphone production and sales reached a whopping 328.8 million in the second quarter (Q2) of the current year, […]