On September 5th, Meta announced that it would be deleting the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany in early December. Meta’s move towards deprecation is driven by several factors. According to the company, “News makes up less than 3% of what people around the world see in their Facebook feed.” This implies […]
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For years, the conversation about global population has been about our impending inability to feed ourselves, because there’ll be too many of us. Then the narrative changed to the reverse; a population implosion and the average age of humankind reaching into the non-productive 60’s. These have been the headline grabbers. And they’ve been legitimate, too. […]
On Tuesday, September 6, the EU DMA dropped a bombshell on Big Tech, christening Big Tech as "gatekeepers" under its Digital Markets Act.
Mastercard denied a report saying it is planning to increase the fees that merchants are charged when their customers use credit cards to pay.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang emphasized avoiding a "new Cold War" when dealing with global conflicts as world leaders gather at ASEAN summit 2023.
The UK’s Electoral Commission (EC) has come clean about a cyber-security breach between 2021 and 2022 that laid bare the data of 40 million voters. This cyber-breach happened around the same time the EC’s systems failed a cyber-security test. The EC is not a government institution per se, but a government-backed independent body. It oversees […]
Rice University Engineers have unveiled wearable, smart textiles that leverage haptic feedback to convey information directly to the wearer.
The guys at Spotify have learnt the hard way about podcast profitability. They’ve ploughed a billion dollars into building a podcast platform. But they’re still showing a loss. By overcapitalizing on podcasts, they’ve had to reduce their losses in other areas, the primary area being a 2% staff cut. But although posting a loss of […]
Of the new biographies coming out this year, Elon Musk’s revealed his covert involvement with the world’s most unserious crypto, Dogecoin.
SoftBank aims for an Arm IPO of more than $52 billion, the chip designer said as it begins marketing for the biggest 2023 US market flotation.