Snapchat Says Tighter Controls For Younger Users In The Works
The owner of Snapchat is collaborating with British lawmakers on ways to prevent underage users from signing up to the popular social media platform, its senior director of international public policy...
View ArticleThe EU’s New Copyright Laws To Impact Google, Facebook
Google will have to compensate publishers for news snippets and Facebook filter out protected content under new copyright rules aimed at ensuring fair compensation for the European Union’s $1 trillion...
View ArticleFacebook Suffered Yet Another Major Outage
Facebook Inc. was hit by its third major outage this year, with users across the world unable to access the social network or its suite of services such as Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp....
View ArticleSlack, Zoom Team Up To Bolster Video Capabilities
Slack has teamed up with cloud video communications vendor Zoom in a move designed to bolster video capabilities for Slack users. The tie-up was unveiled at this week’s Slack Frontiers event. Zoom –...
View ArticleFacebook Debuts Newly Designed Workplace App
Along with an update to its core consumer offering at its F8 developer conference this week, Facebook debuted a redesigned interface for its Workplace enterprise social network. One analyst described...
View ArticleNetflix Increased Cost Of Subscriptions In UK
Netflix bumped up the cost of its UK subscriptions for the first time in two years, with its standard plan costing an extra £1 (around $1.25) a month. This plan, which is the streaming service’s most...
View ArticleFacebook Creates New Product Experimentation Team, New Apps Are Coming
New Facebook apps appear to be in the making. The social media giant announced that it has created a team, known as New Product Experimentation, to design, build and launch apps that give people...
View ArticleYouTube’s Copyright Protection Practices Come Under Scrutiny
YouTube is drawing the attention of a high-level congressional office interested in its copyright-protection practices, an inquiry that comes as the massive video site cracks down on stream-ripping, a...
View ArticleSlack Debuts A Redesigned Desktop App
Slack has redesigned its desktop software, adding offline access and tweaking the software for faster load times. Recent efforts to improve the desktop app were highlighted at Slack Frontiers last year...
View ArticleNew Android Ransomware Can Be Spread Via Text Messages
A new family of ransomware developed to attack Google’s Android mobile operating system utilizes SMS messaging to spread, researchers say. Cybersecurity professionals from ESET revealed their...
View ArticleGoogle Accused Of Leaking User Data To Advertisers
Brave, the maker of a Chromium-based browser rival to Google Chrome, claims it has new proof that Google is leaking personal information to advertisers and violating Europe’s privacy laws around data...
View ArticleIs High Dynamic Range A Waste
He said today's cinematographers are using older lenses and filters on digital cameras to make them look like they weren't shot with a 4K or 8K camera. "The problem with 8K and even 4K is that all it...
View ArticleIs The European Union Going After Google Again
European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has handed down fines totalling more than eight billion euro to Google in the last two years and ordered it to change its business practices.
View ArticleIs Apple Spying On You Again
The Apple employee then examined each of these images of suspected child pornography, according to the special agent at the Homeland Security Investigations unit.
View ArticleGoogle To Drop The UK From EU Data Protection
Google has decided to move its British users out of Irish jurisdiction because it is unclear whether Britain will follow GDPR or adopt other rules that could affect the handling of user data, the...
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