San Francisco : You may soon login to Facebook with Blockchain-based authentication, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has indicated. In a public interview with Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain late on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said he is “potentially interested” in putting the Facebook ...
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Moscow : Russian telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor has said that it will punish Twitter and Facebook if they decline to move the database of Russian users to Russia. “The companies will either have to localise the databases within a certain period ...
Read More »LinkedIn rolling out beta version of ‘Live’ feature in US
San Francisco : Microsoft-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn is launching a live video feature on its app to enable users to broadcast real-time videos. The beta version of “LinkedIn Live” is first launching as an invite-only feature in the US, ...
Read More »Irish watchdog warns Facebook over WhatsApp integration
London : The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has warned Facebook over its planned integration of its chat services — WhatsApp, Messenger and photo-sharing app Instagram, asking the social media giant to provide it with an “urgent briefing” on the ...
Read More »Microsoft acquires open-source start-up to boost Cloud business
San Francisco : Microsoft has said it has acquired open-source company Citus Data to bolster the competitiveness of its Cloud computing business. Citus Data is a company dedicated to the open-source database software PostgreSQL. Microsoft did not disclose detailed terms ...
Read More »Amazon’s AWS launches service to automate data backups
San Francisco : Retail giant Amazon’s Cloud arm Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched “Backup” — a new feature which makes it easier for companies to backup their data using its Cloud computing platform. AWS “Backup” makes protecting storage volumes, ...
Read More »You won’t be able to use WhatsApp on these devices in 2019
San Francisco : Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been dropping support for dated devices and operating systems (OS) from time to time and now it is ending support for iOS 7 and older versions, Android 2.3.7 and Nokia Series 40 (S40). What ...
Read More »Facebook has multi-year plans to overhaul its systems: Zuckerberg
San Francisco : Saying goodbye to one of his toughest years filled with several controversies, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he is “proud” of the progress in 2018 and the company has now established multi-year plans to overhaul its systems ...
Read More »Google introduces spam protection for text messages
San Francisco : Google has begun rolling out its spam protection feature for Messages after almost over six months of developing it for Android users. Based on reports from a handful of tipsters, that spam protection feature is now going ...
Read More »Training machines sans bias will only augment humans: AWS executive
By Nishant Arora, New Delhi : At a time when the debate over machines replacing humans rages, a top Amazon Web Services (AWS) executive is convinced that machines are not here to take decisions on their own, and certain human ...
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