Apple Acquires London-Based Music Company Platoon In a bid to further cement its position in the global music space,Applehas reportedly acquired London-based creative services and music start-up Platoon for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of A&R and creative services companyPlatoon— founded in 2016 by iTune veteran Denzyl Feigelson and LoveFilm co-founder Saul Klein, is aimed at tapping emerging artists for Apple Music, Music Business Worldwide reported on Friday. “The company worked with the likes of Stateside breakout act Billie Eilish before she signed to Interscope in 2017, in addition to UK stars Stefflon Don and Jorja Smith,” said the report....

Facebook Fined 10 Million Euros for Misleading Users About Data Sharing Italian regulators have fined Facebook 10 million euros for selling users’ data without informing them. The competition watchdog handed Facebook two fines totalling 10 million euros, “also for discouraging users from trying to limit how the company shares their data”, Italian portal The Local reported on Saturday. Facebook “misleadingly gets people to sign up… without informing them in an immediate and adequate way of how the data they will provide will be harvested for commercial purposes”, read a statement from Italy’s AGCM consumer and market watchdog....

Google Announces ‘Journalism AI’ Project to Train Newsrooms To help news industry use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in more innovative ways, Google has announced a partnership with Polis, the international journalism think-tank at London School of Economics and Political Science, to create ‘Journalism AI’. Part of theGoogle News Initiative(GNI), the Journalism AI project will focus on research and training for newsrooms on the intersection of AI and journalism. “As part of ‘Journalism AI’, next year, we’ll publish a global survey about how the media is currently using — and could further benefit from — this technology,” Google said in a statement on Friday as it organised GNI Innovation Forum here....

Google Removes 22 Apps From Play Store Over Ad Fraud, Malware Just a few days ago, GoogleremovedCheetah Mobile’s CM File Manager and Kika Tech’s Kika Keyboard apps from the Play Store after they were found runningad click fraud. Google has now kicked out 22 more apps from the Play Store that were engaged in click fraud, with one of them being a popular app with over a million downloads. The apps contained malicious code and were discovered by Sophos....

Hear the First Sounds from Mars Straight From NASA’s InSight Lander NASA’sInSight lander, which touched down on Mars on November 26, has provided the first ever “sounds” of Martian wind on the Red Planet, the NASA said. InSight sensors captured a haunting low rumble caused by vibrations from the wind onMars, estimated to be blowing between 10 to 15 mph (5 to 7 meters a second) on December 1, from northwest to southeast, NASA said on Friday....

Instagram Fixes Weird Glitch That Added Lines on Your Photos It appears that serviceoutageis not the only thing Instagramers have to worry about. A couple of days ago, Instagram users started experiencing a weird glitch which caused lines to appear on photos and stories. Affected users took to Twitter and shared samples of the photos which had irregularly spaced lines running across the photos. But the issue is not only limited to Instagram’s platform because photos and stories reposted on Facebook continued to show the lines....

Nokia Opens Up About Gaming Phones, Innovation and Upcoming Flagships HMD Global iscelebrating the second anniversary of Nokia’s returnwith thelaunch of the Nokia 8.1in Dubai, which is also when thefolks over at WinFuturegot to deep dive into the past, present, and future of Nokia. Speaking to HMD Global’s German marketing boss Britta Gerbracht, WinFuture learned about Nokia’s current sales, banking on the nostalgia factor, gaming and flagship phones, among a variety of other things....