Facebook tightens policies to prevent suicide, self-harm
San Francisco-- On World Suicide Prevention Day, Facebook is tightening its policies around self-harm, suicide and eating disorder and has announced its plan to...
50 US states open probe into Google’s anti-trust practices
Washington-- In a significant development, Attorneys General for 50 US states have announced a probe into Google's anti-trust practices, focusing on whether the tech...
Social media fake accounts evolve, able to copy human behavior
New York-- Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found that bots or fake accounts enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) on social media have evolved and...
Prof. Kaushik Chowdhury Develops Technology That Transforms Any Surface Into a Smart Wireless Charger
By Roberto Molar Candanosa
News at Northeastern
What do a piece of plywood and a drone have in common? They can be turned into smart wireless...
After Kashmir, focus on economy, Tweeple’s message to Modi
New Delhi-- With Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday tweeting a link to his exclusive interview with IANS, many of his followers took the...
Instagram bans US firm for improper data collection
San Francisco-- Facebook-owned Instagram has banned a San Francisco-based company from its platform on charges of improper user-data collection.
Called Hyp3r, the start-up scraped public...
Facebook, Instagram restored after global outage
San Francisco-- Twitter users from different parts of the world took to the micro-blogging site to report Facebook and Instagram outage which was later...
Google, Apple stop listening to users’ conversations
San Francisco-- After facing flak, tech giants Google and Apple have now stopped snooping on users' conversations. While Apple has suspended the programme that...
WhatsApp Pay coming to India later this year: Global head
New Delhi--Facebook-owned WhatsApp is all set to launch its peer-to-peer, UPI-based Pay service for over 300 million users -- especially the small and medium...
Facebook removes multiple fake Pages, Groups, accounts
San Francisco-- Facebook on Thursday said it removed multiple Pages, Groups and accounts that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour on its platform and...