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Facebook cancels 937 accounts linked to Nicaragua government

Meta Platforms, the company that runs Facebook, said Monday it has canceled 937 accounts linked to the government of Nicaragua and the Sandinista party of President Daniel Ortega. Meta said it also removed 140 deceptive pages, 24 groups and 363 Instagram accounts for violating the company’s policy against “coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a […]

Humanity and produce: The Future of Biotechnology

We humans are curious creatures. If we weren’t we would still be living in caves, if living at all. It is in our nature to pursue answers about the cosmos, why things are the way they are, how they came to be, and endlessly more complex questions.   Among the most baffling questions that keep scientists awake at night is ‘what is life’. The future of biotechnology may hold the answer to […]

An "eraser button"? Focused ideas could help bridle Big Tech

Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in cases where the content they push to users causes harm? Or creating a new regulator to strictly oversee the industry? Those ideas have captured official attention in the U.S., Europe, U.K. and Australia as controversy has enveloped Facebook — which on […]

Supernational fronts retaliate against cybercrime group REvil

Cybercrime group REvil was infiltrated by U.S. governmental agencies and obliged to go dark after cybercrime operation attacking from supernational fronts, reported by Reuters.  Speculations circulating the group’s recent absence following Recorded Future security specialist Dimitry Smilyanets went to Twitter to reveal various messages from the account of a famous REvil operator, ‘0_neday.’ The messages displayed […]

Facebook to refurbish its image with a rebrand

Facebook announced on Tuesday plans to rebrand its image by changing its name to mirror the tech giant’s recent emphasis on creating its metaverse, according to The Verge.  Mark Zuckerberg is planning to change the social networking company’s name, with the new label will be announced next week at the company’s annual Connect conference on October […]

Novi, Facebook digital wallet sirens regulatory warning

Facebook launched on Tuesday its own digital wallet Novi to support decentralized currencies in collaboration with Coinbase and was faced with an urge from U.S. senators and lawmakers to cease the wallet’s pilot release, effective immediately.  One notion Facebook’s six-hour outage proved to us: the magnitude of our reliance on just one company. Facebook made […]

FDA authorizes first e-cigarette, cites benefit for smokers

For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized an electronic cigarette, saying the vaping device from R.J. Reynolds can help smokers cut back on conventional cigarettes. E-cigarettes have been sold in the U.S. for more than a decade with minimal government oversight or research. Facing a court deadline, the FDA has […]

Chip manufacturing crisis will cast its shadow till 2022

As supply-chain shortages continue to extend into 2022 due to COVID-19, chip manufacturing giants are exhibiting what the future could hold, and it won’t include the same price list pre-pandemic. While the ongoing chip shortage managed to reconcile its situation, the same cannot be expressed about its pricing list. The state of the semiconductor industry […]

Dubai to find out if pandemic-delayed Expo 2020 will pay off

A computer-graphic-soaked advertisement featuring Australian actor and Hollywood heartthrob Chris Hemsworth beckons the world to Dubai’s upcoming Expo 2020, promising a “world of pure imagination” as children without facemasks race across a futuristic carnival scene. Reality, however, crashes into the frame in all capital-letters caption at the bottom of the screen, saying: “THIS COMMERCIAL WAS […]