Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak sues YouTube over bitcoin scams using his image
SAN RAMON, California: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is launching a legal attack against Google’s YouTube video site for allowing con artists to use him as a pawn in a Bitcoin scam believed to have heisted millions of dollars from people around the world. The personal computer pioneer vented his frustration and anger in a video […]
Twitter crackdown no use, QAnon now among conservative mainstream
Washington: Twitter’s decision to crack down on the conspiracy-theory mongering of QAnon underscores the loose-knit group’s increasing reach into the mainstream of US politics. From an anonymous 2017 posting claiming bizarre child exploitation and deep state plots, the headless and bodiless movement has earned a place in President Donald Trump’s Twitter stream. His son Eric […]
Pakistan says immoral content posted on TikTok, issues warning
Islamabad: Pakistan has issued a final warning to Chinese-owned social media app TikTok to clamp down on what it called “immoral, obscene and vulgar” content on the video-sharing platform. TikTok has become a global sensation with its 15 to 60-second video clips and is hugely popular among young Pakistanis, with some users building up millions […]
Expect Samsung Note 20, Fold 2 and three other devices at Unpacked on August 5
At Samsung’s digital event Unpacked on August 5, the company will launch five new devices, its head of the mobile business announced in a blog post on Monday. These include the expected Galaxy Note 20 series and the Galaxy Fold 2, as well as rumoured new smart watch, tablet and earbuds. Samsung mobile chief Tae-moon […]
Twitter disables Trump’s tweet over copyright violation
WASHINGTON: Twitter Inc disabled a campaign-style video that President Donald Trump retweeted on Saturday, citing a copyright complaint. The video, which included music from the group Linkin Park, disappeared from the president’s Twitter feed late Saturday with the notification: “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.” Twitter removed […]
TikTok could pull out of Chinese ByteDance to avoid ban in US
TikTok could separate itself from Chinese company ByteDance to operate as an independent American firm to avoid being banned by the US government. TikTok has 40 million users in the US and after recently being banned in another large market, India, after border clashes between troops of Delhi and Beijing, the short-video sharing social media […]
Trump, social conservatives untouched by hack on Twitter, Biden, liberal darlings
San Francisco: The official Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others were hijacked on Wednesday by scammers trying to dupe people into sending cryptocurrency bitcoin, in a massive hack. The account of US President Donald Trump, which has more than 83 million followers, was not among those hacked. The list of accounts […]
Google picks up 7.7 pc stake in Jio for Rs 33,373 crore
Mumbai: Google has agreed to invest Rs 33,737 crore to buy a 7.7 per cent stake in Reliance Industries’ technology venture, adding to a slew of investments since April that has crossed Rs 1.52 lakh crore. California-based Alphabet Inc joins Facebook Inc, which opened the investment cycle in Jio Platforms by picking 9.99 per cent […]
TikTok can be used to steal Intellectual Property, expect strong action: Trump aide
San Francisco: A top White House official said he expected President Trump to act firmly against the TikTok and WeChat social media apps, prompting an angry response from China on Monday. China dismissed White House trade advisor Peter Navarro’s comments as “ridiculous and narrow-minded”, and slammed the United States as “the world’s real hacker empire” […]
Facebook bans posts claiming to change sexual orientation of gays
San Francisco: Facebook on Friday said it is banning content that promotes “conversion therapy,” which is based on the unfounded notion that gays can change their sexual orientation through psychological or spiritual intervention. Facebook and its image-centric social network Instagram are updating policies to require removal of content that directly promotes conversion therapy when such […]
TikTok’s portrays an image of principle by pulling out of Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Viral video platform TikTok’s withdrawal from Hong Kong is a savvy commercial move that sidesteps thorny privacy issues but it will not shield the app completely from accusations of collusion with China, experts say. As Facebook, Twitter and other US tech giants risk angering China by refusing to share Hong Kong user data, […]
Microsoft, Zoom join Facebook, Google, Twitter to stall Hong Kong user data requests
San Francisco: Microsoft and Zoom on Tuesday joined other major internet firms that have stopped considering requests by Hong Kong’s government for information on users in the wake of China’s imposition of a sweeping new security law. Microsoft and Zoom said they are pausing consideration of data requests by officials or police in Hong Kong, […]
Encouraging operators not to use Huawei for 5G, France cybersecurity head says
Paris: China’s Huawei is not totally banned from France’s next-generation 5G wireless market, but French operators using them will only get limited licences, the head of the national cybersecurity agency told Les Echos newspaper Sunday. The comments were the latest development in the controversy over Huawei’s involvement, after several Western nations barred the company from […]
Using misinformation law, Singapore government controlling the narrative before polls
Singapore: Singapore’s government has used a controversial online misinformation law to order an opposition party to correct a social media post, days after campaigning got underway for an election next week. Under the law, ministers can order social media sites to put warnings next to posts the government considers false and order pages be blocked, […]
Google, Apple only too happy to take down the 59 Chinese apps banned by India
New Delhi: The 59 Chinese apps banned by the government have been taken down from Google Play Store and Apple App Store in India, blocking their access to mobile phone users in the country. The government had on Monday banned 59 Chinese applications saying they were prejudicial to sovereignty, integrity, and security of the country. […]
Hours after ban, TikTok denies sharing Indian users’ data with Chinese government
NEW DELHI: TikTok denied Tuesday sharing Indian users’ data with the Chinese government, after New Delhi banned the wildly popular app in a sharp deterioration of relations with Beijing two weeks after a deadly border clash. “TikTok continues to comply with all data privacy and security requirements under Indian law and have not shared any […]
59 Chinese apps, including TikTok, Shareit banned as #BoycottChina goes official
The government has banned 59 Chinese apps, including hugely popular ones like the social short video app TikTok and the sharing platform Shareit, following the standoff with the Chinese forces in Ladakh. A press release issued by the Ministry of Information Technology said it was invoking its power under Section 69A of the Information Technology […]
Tech This Week | Apple v Basecamp: We need to separate gatekeeper from toll collector
In his book Super Pumped (a biography of Uber), Mike Isaac argues that App Store and Play Store give Apple and Google, respectively, the power to destroy multi-billion dollar companies. So when Travis Kalanick (then CEO of Uber) was charged with breaking some of the rules of App Store, and he managed to survive a […]
Israel enlists help of tech startups to stem second wave of COVID-19
Tel Aviv: Israel’s armoury in the battle against the novel coronavirus includes thermal cameras scanning crowds and algorithms trawling vast medical databanks for real-time indicators of an infection spike. The Jewish state is enlisting the help of local startups in the hope of stemming a “second wave” of the virus. The chaos of daily life […]
Could the TikTok gen save America? They pulled a fast one on Trump’s campaign
Oakland, California: Did teens, TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music troll the president of the United States? For more than a week before Donald Trump’s first campaign rally in three months on Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, these tech-savvy groups opposing the president mobilised to reserve tickets for an event they had no intention […]