Facebook Prunes ‘shocking’ News Feed Posts
Websites that harbour “disruptive, shocking or malicious” adverts will appear less frequently on user’s news feeds, Facebook has said. The social network is tweaking the algorithm that picks...
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Snapchat Shares Slide As Growth Slows
Shares in Snapchat’s owner have sunk after it reported disappointing growth in the first three months of the year. In its first results since floating, Snap said the number of daily active users...
Snap Posts $2.2 Bn Loss In First Results
Snapchat parent Snap Inc. saw its shares slide Wednesday after posting a loss of $2.2 billion in its first quarterly results since its share offering earlier this year. The loss for the California...
Microsoft Aims To Make Artificial Intelligence Mainstream
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled new tools intended to democratize artificial intelligence by enabling machine smarts to be built into software from smartphone games to factory floors. The US...
Facebook Takes Aim At ‘low Quality’ Websites
Facebook said Wednesday it was making changes designed to keep its users from linking to "low-quality" websites, part of an effort to fight spam and misinformation. The world's biggest social network...
Netflix Hit By Cannes ‘ban’ After Cinema Release Row
The Cannes film festival effectively slapped a ban on future Netflix-backed movies Wednesday after the streaming giant refused to screen its two films in this year's competition in French cinemas....
Microsoft Aims To Make Artificial Intelligence Mainstream
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled new tools intended to democratize artificial intelligence by enabling machine smarts to be built into software from smartphone games to factory floors. Improving...
Microsoft Aims To Make Artificial Intelligence Mainstream
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled new tools intended to democratize artificial intelligence by enabling machine smarts to be built into software from smartphone games to factory floors. Improving...
Otiko Djaba To Quit Facebook
Gender and Social Protection Minister; Otiko Djaba is set to shut down her Facebook account following persisting impersonation. According to Otiko Afisa Djaba, her impersonators whom she named as Mr...
Microsoft Makes Emergency Security Fix
Microsoft has released an urgent update to stop hackers taking control of computers with a single email. The unusual bug, in Microsoft anti-malware software such as Windows Defender, could be...
Otiko Quits Facebook Over Impersonation
Gender and Social Protection Minister; Otiko Djaba is set to shut down her Facebook account following a page that has been impersonating her. According to Otiko Afisa Djaba, her impersonators whose...
Online Grammar Fixers Get $110million Boost
There's money to be made from other people's mistakes: $110m (£85m) of it, to be precise. That's the amount raised in a funding round by Grammarly, a firm that boasts of having what it calls "the...
US Teen Breaks Internet Record, Spurred By Love of Nuggets
An American teenager has broken the world record for the most retweets, in a crusade to win a year's supply of his favorite food: chicken nuggets. Beating out TV stars Ellen Degeneres and Kim...
Chicken Nugget Tweet Breaks Twitter Record
A tweet from a teenager asking a US fast food chain for a year’s supply of chicken nuggets has become the most retweeted ever. Carter Wilkerson’s plea broke Ellen DeGeneres’ record when he...
Amazon’s New Alexa Speaker Has A Screen Too
Amazon on Tuesday unveiled the latest member of its family of devices powered by its Alexa digital assistant -- this one with a touchscreen. The new device called Echo Show steps up efforts by Amazon...
Russia Blocks China’s Biggest Messaging App
Moscow's communications regulator has added WeChat to its list of prohibited websites, according to Russian state news agency TASS. The messaging app ran afoul of laws requiring companies that...
China’s Alipay Takes On Apple In US Expansion
Alipay, the Chinese digital payment giant owned by ecommerce giant Alibaba, is expanding in the US. Customers will be able to use Alipay at about 4 million businesses after a deal was signed with...
Facebook Must Delete Hate Postings, Court Rules
A court in Austria has ordered that Facebook must remove postings seen as hate speech, in a ruling that is set to have international implications. The case was brought by the country’s Green Party...
Pandora Explores Sale After Securing $150 Million
Pandora, which dominates internet radio but has seen its model eclipsed by music streaming companies such as Spotify, said Monday it was open to buyers after securing a fresh $150 million. Jim...
Facebook Publishes Fake News Ads In UK Papers
Facebook has broadened its campaign to raise awareness about fake news, by publishing adverts in the UK press. The ads, in papers including The Times, The Guardian and Daily Telegraph, carry a list...