Facebook Removed over 1.5 Billion Fake Accounts in Last Six Months, Says Zuckerberg

Facebook Removed over 1.5 Billion Fake Accounts in Last Six Months, Says Zuckerberg Facebook will establish an independent body next year to oversee user appeals of content, thereby admitting that it should not take a call on free expression and safety on its own, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said. In a5,500-word articlelate last night,Zuckerbergsaid the purpose of this body would be to uphold the principle of giving people a voice while also recognizing the reality of keeping people safe....

November 16, 2018 · 2 min · 398 words · Kerry Wilson

Google Doodle Celebrates Arecibo Message, the First Broadcast into Space

Google Doodle Celebrates Arecibo Message, the First Broadcast into Space Forty-four years back, scientists sent humankind’s first, three-minute long interstellar radio message – the Arecibo Message – and Google is today celebrating this 1974 feat with a uniqueDoodle. The Arecibo message is a 1974 interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth sent to globular star “cluster M13” 25,000 light years away, with a hope that extraterrestrial intelligence might receive and decipher it....

November 16, 2018 · 2 min · 282 words · Richard Clark

Google Phone Gets Dark Mode To Match Contacts App

Google Phone Gets Dark Mode To Match Contacts App When the Google Contacts app got the dark themeearlier this month, all we wanted was for Google to roll out the same to their Phone app as well. It seems like the company has heard our request as the ‘dark mode’ is now available to beta users of the Google Phone app. Google Phone version 26 (public beta) has finally brought the dark mode option, as we’d been anticipating, putting it on par with all the other Google apps that have received the dark mode....

November 16, 2018 · 3 min · 478 words · Andrew Long

Google’s AI-Powered Screen Call Is Now Rolling Out to Pixel 2

Google’s AI-Powered Screen Call Is Now Rolling Out to Pixel 2 Screen Call was arguably one of the coolest feature that was introduced with the newPixel 3smartphones this year. But thankfully,Googlepromised to roll out this feature to the older Pixel and Pixel 2 phones in November. Well, guess what? It’s November, and as promised, it looks like Google has started rolling out the Screen Call feature to some Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL phones....

November 16, 2018 · 2 min · 300 words · Shaun Turner

Google’s Upcoming H Update For Wear OS Will Focus on Improved Battery Life

Google’s Upcoming H Update For Wear OS Will Focus on Improved Battery Life Android smartwatches pale in comparison to the Apple Watch, especially after the headline-grabbing Apple Watch Series 4 launch. Google looked to change things around with the Wear OS rebranding from Android Wear, as well as some much needed polish to the underlying software. But the hardware problem remained as Qualcomm, the biggest Android chipset partner, hadn’t released new SoCs for smartwatches in quite some time....

November 16, 2018 · 2 min · 420 words · Mr. Dillon Evans

How to Take a Screenshot in macOS Mojave

How to Take a Screenshot in macOS Mojave macOS Mojave brings anumber of new featureswhich enhance the entire macOS experience and make it more productive and enjoyable to use. My favorite feature of macOS Mojave is the new dark mode which allows me to work late at night without having to strain my eyes too much. Just like thenew dark mode, macOS Mojave focuses more on enhancing features that existed beforehand rather than introducing new features of its own....

November 16, 2018 · 8 min · 1600 words · Kirsten Strickland

Indian Government Asked Facebook For User Data Over 16,500 Times Till June This Year

Indian Government Asked Facebook For User Data Over 16,500 Times Till June This Year Facebook recorded 16,580 data requests from the Indian government in the first six months of 2018, a steep rise compared to a total of 22,024 requests in the full year of 2017 and 13,613 in 2016. In the January-June 2018 period, Facebook provided some data to the government in 53 percent of the cases, although the social networking giant did not reveal which kind of data as it published its transparency report late on Thursday....

November 16, 2018 · 2 min · 407 words · Angela Smith
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