Google has announced it is working with several partners like Cisco and Genesys to build Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that will replace some of the work in call centres. The software is called Contact Center AI which will install virtual agents that will be the first to pick up the[Read More…]
Twitter removed more than 143,000 apps between April and June which violated its policies, the company has announced, saying it is further investing in building improved tools and processes to stop malicious apps faster. As part of its clean-up process, the micro-blogging platform also introduced a new way for all[Read More…]
After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook has now suspended Boston-based data analytics company Crimson Hexagon over concerns that it harvested users’ data. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal late on Friday, the social media giant was investigating whether the analytics firm’s contracts with the US government,[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday told the Supreme Court that it is necessary to regulate the Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to check illegal transactions which will impact the international flow of funds. The RBI told the bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar[Read More…]
In its effort to prevent misuse of the platform ahead of general election in India in 2019, Whatsapp is planning to bring a fake news verification model, Verificado, in India. The model was recently used in Mexico Presidential election, where users attempt to spread rumours to Verificado’s Whatsapp account were[Read More…]
As the government served WhatsApp with a second notice asking it to check the spread of fake and provocative content, the Facebook-owned platform has said it is launching a test to limit forwarding that will apply to everyone in India. In India where people forward more messages, photos, and videos[Read More…]
San Francisco: Accused of helping to spur violence in countries like Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India, Facebook has said it will begin removing misinformation that leads to violence and physical harm. Currently, Facebook bans content that directly calls for violence but the new policy will cover fake news that has[Read More…]
New Delhi: At nearly $940 billion, Apple is certainly well on the way to becoming the world’s first trillion dollar company — and the feat could be achieved as early as the end of this year with upcoming iPhone launches. The tech giant crossed the $900 billion market capitalisation mark[Read More…]
Using technologies that are affordable and accessible can help India bridge the digital and knowledge gaps which are widening due to multiple factors such as gender discrimination, income disparity and cultural practices, among others, says the President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). COL, an intergovernmental organisation established[Read More…]
Instant messaging service Yahoo Messenger shut down on Tuesday after a 20-year run. The iconic messaging application from late 90s struggled to keep up with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. “We know we have many loyal fans who have used Yahoo Messenger since its beginning as one of the first chat[Read More…]
London: Moderators at Facebook are protecting far-right activists, preventing their Pages from being deleted even after they violate the rules set up by the social media giant, the media reported. The process called shielded review was uncovered by Channel 4 Dispatches – a documentary series that sent an undercover reporter[Read More…]
Washington: Shoppers in the US and elsewhere in the world are struggling to access e-commerce giant Amazon’s website as one of its biggest annual sales, Prime Day, got underway. Many reported the platform had crashed as soon as the two-day sale day began on Monday, showing them only an error[Read More…]
Managing loads and piles of dumped phones, laptops, printers and various other gadgets is a massive modern-day challenge that every city and country is dealing with. Amid the struggle has appeared an India-born Australian Veena Sahajwalla, who has come up with solutions to effectively dispose or reuse the electronic waste.[Read More…]
Speaking on the 81st birth anniversary celebration of late journalist Prabhash Joshi near Rajghat in the national capital, BJP MP Murli Manohar Joshi said that ever grooming technology has trapped humans inside computers. “Technology has entered our lives so much that we cannot get rid of it no matter how[Read More…]
The social network Facebook employs five times more female workers than it did five years ago. However, a blatant disparity still exists in regard to the leadership level. Statistically, less than one third of Facebook’s senior leadership is female. The company is slowly diversifying its employees. In particular, there have[Read More…]
New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk who just completed his three-day visit to China, has shown an interest in visiting India early 2019. He has said India generally makes him hopeless when it comes to tough government regulations. Replying to a tweet from a user, Musk who is also SpaceX[Read More…]
New Delhi: In response to the I&B ministry’ decision to set up a social media hub to monitor online data the Supreme Court said the government wanting to tap citizens’ WhatsApp messages is “like creating a surveillance state”. The top court has sought the government’s response in the matter within[Read More…]
As Twitter began sanitising its platform by removing inactive and locked accounts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lost nearly 300,000 followers while Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi lost over 17,000 followers. According to socialblade, a website that accounts for the number of Twitter followers on a daily basis, the[Read More…]
New Delhi: In a bid to encourage healthy conversation and fight fake accounts on Twitter, the micro-blogging website on Wednesday announced to remove locked accounts – which are disabled owing to suspicious activity – from follower counts across profiles globally. This will result in some high-profile users seeing a big[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Telecom Commission on Wednesday approved net neutrality rules which bar service providers from discriminating against internet content and services by blocking, throttling or granting them higher speed access. However, some mission critical applications or services like remote surgery and autonomous cars will not be in the purview[Read More…]
Amid the spate of fake news crises around the globe, WhatsApp has moved a step further towards resolving the issue by launching a new feature as ‘Forwarded’, which will identify whether a certain message has been forwarded or created by the sender. Any forwarded message will have a small ‘Forwarded’[Read More…]
Speaking at the 41st Reliance annual general meeting, Chairman Mukesh Ambani officially launched the new fibre broadband system ‘Jio GigaFiber’ across 1,100 cities on Thursday, stepping up its push on internet services. This much awaited, fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband services, which will be available for both residential and commercial locations, will[Read More…]
Bengaluru based MyVoteToday App, launched in 2016, which is famous for conducting twitter polls and over the time unmassed half a million followers, has been suspended for violating Twitter rules. The exact nature of violation has not been revealed by Twitter yet. There have been many instances in the past where[Read More…]
Due to increasing number of reported killings, lead by rapid and wide spread of misinformation across the country through WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service said it would fund research to find out why misinformation spreads on the platform like wildfire in India. WhatAapp, which has over 200 million monthly active[Read More…]
NEW DELHI: The government has asked WhatsApp to take immediate action to end the menace of spreading messages that impact the country’s law and order situation and ensure that the platform is not used for such malicious activities, an official statement said here on Tuesday. “Instances of lynching of innocent people[Read More…]
