A recent report confirms, Twitter changing its plans and policy on the subject of content hacking. Earlier, Twitter had to delete a link related to the Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, which had led to an outburst of controversies. On this, the Twitter team said that the deletion was in order to protect against […]
An India and UK headquartered genomics biotech company is among four worldwide projects awarded the USD 1-million 2020 Roddenberry Prize designed to advance the vision of ‘Star Trek’ creator Gene Roddenberry to better humanity. Launched this year in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, the prize pivoted to engage organisations who demonstrated their agility […]
Recent research initiated by the University of Sienna discovered residues of microplastics within the guts of tiny Collembula, belonging to the group of Hexapods near King George Island. Antarctica, which had been facing threats due to several anthropogenic pollutions, now is at the brink of risking the food chain and bringing major disruption to the […]
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has transported 450 tonnes of medical equipment and other essential supplies to date amid the coronavirus lockdown in the country, the defense ministry said on Monday. The IAF has mobilized its planes and helicopters along with the necessary support infrastructure to create and maintain “air-bridges” between nodal supply bases and […]
Facebook has filed a lawsuit against an Indian man for running a software company that pushed deceptive advertisements and misinformation about the coronavirus outbreak on social media platforms by bypassing its advertising review process. The suit, filed in federal court in California, alleges that Basant Gajjar’s company LeadCloak provided ad-cloaking software designed to sneak fake […]
On Tuesday Facebook denied that companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, and Yahoo were able to misuse Facebook users’ personal data. The internal documents describing the Facebook partnerships with other tech companies, reports on previously undisclosed aspects of business partnerships with companies including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Spotify, and Netflix. Reports suggest Facebook allowed Microsoft’s search […]
On Tuesday Bob Ferguson Washington state Attorney General informed that finally Facebook and Google have agreed mutually to pay $455,000 for settling all the allegations they did not keep any records of who was actually paying for all the ads campaign on their sites. He also mentioned that the companies failed to maintain those kinds […]
In the spirit of Giving Tuesday, Facebook has come together with PayPal to raise up to $7 million in donations on 27th November 2018 to match donations made on Facebook to nonprofits. Outlining the rules for donating, Facebook has said that it shall start matching donations with PayPal commencing at 8 a.m. ET (5:00 am […]
Geisinger has announced that Google has picked Geisinger Health’s CEO David Feinberg to take control of Google’s health strategy. Google is all set to move into the $3 trillion health care sector and to see that Google functions fully, efficiently and effectively in their new health care strategy, they have picked David Feinberg. Google’s health […]
Chemicals are very harmful to our environment especially those chemicals released into the environment by human activity. The side-effects include biodiversity loss, increased natural hazards, threats to food, water, and energy security; negative impacts on human health and degradation of environmental quality. An international study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry involving scientists from the […]
The American government proceeded to stop China Mobile from entering the nation’s telecommunications market, citing reasons that the company’s application hinted for national security risks. China Mobile applied for the entry in 2011 and is presently the largest carrier of the world with 899 million subscribers. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the […]