Rihanna Helps Fan Through Heartbreak
Rihanna has helped a fan overcome heartbreak by replying to his message on Twitter and telling him his sadness “won’t be forever”. The 29-year-old singer received a direct message on Twitter...
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Snapchat Map Update Raises Child Safety Worries
An update to Snapchat that shows publicly posted images on a searchable map has raised safety concerns among parents. Snap Map lets people search for places such as schools and see videos and...
Google Set To End Controversy of Scanning Gmail To Target Ads
Google is set to eliminate an advertising format that has raised many privacy concerns among its Gmail users. Emails will no longer be scanned in order to show users personalized ads, instead, the...
Google To Stop Scanning Gmail For Ad Targeting
Google said Friday it would stop scanning the contents of Gmail users' inboxes for ad targeting, moving to end a practice that has fueled privacy concerns since the free email service was launched. A...
Facebook Launches Initiative To Fight Online Hate Speech
Facebook is launching a UK initiative to train and fund local organisations to combat extremism and hate speech. It comes a week after the social network announced steps of its own to remove...
Facebook Offers Indian Women Tools To Protect Privacy
Facebook has introduced new security features for women using the social media platform in India, including the ability to prevent strangers from downloading their profile pictures, the company said...
WhatsApp Rises As A Major Force In News Media
WhatsApp is becoming one of the prevailing ways people discover and discuss news, according to a study. But use of the messaging app appears to vary widely between countries. In Malaysia, more than...
Instagram Stories Now Has 250 Million Daily Users
Instagram’s Snapchat Stories clone, aptly named Instagram Stories, is now being used by 250 million users every day. Instagram revealed the new milestone Tuesday when it announced a minor update...
Man Jailed For Dangling Baby From Window In Algeria
A court in Algeria has sentenced a man to two years in prison for dangling his baby out of a window in order to attract “likes” on Facebook. The father posted a picture of himself holding the...
Man Jailed for Dangling Baby from Window to Attract ‘Likes’ on Facebook
A court in Algeria has sentenced a man to two years in prison for dangling his baby out of a window in order to attract “likes” on Facebook. The father posted a picture of himself holding the...
Sex Offenders Cannot Be Barred From Social Media
The US Supreme Court on Monday unanimously struck down a North Carolina law that barred registered sex offenders from using social media. The suit in the nation's highest court goes back to a...
Google Pledges To Tackle YouTube Terror Videos
Google has unveiled four measures it will use to tackle the spread of terror-related material online. Among the measures it is deploying will be smarter software that can spot extremist material and...
Man Jailed For Sharing Photo of Dead Grenfell Tower Fire Victim On Facebook
A man who posted pictures on Facebook of the body of someone believed to have leapt to his death from the Grenfell Tower fire has been jailed for three months. Omega Mwaikambo, 43, posted one...
Katy Perry Makes Twitter History With 100 Million Followers
Pop superstar Katy Perry has made history by becoming the first user to garner 100 million followers on Twitter, the social media platform announced. "Today we #WITNESS history," Twitter said Friday...
Lawyers Advertising On Social Media Is Distasteful – Sophia Akuffo
It appears clamouring by some lawyers, demanding amendment to an “archaic” rule banning lawyers from advertising on social media, cannot be met with ease as the Chief Justice nominee expresses...
US Singer Katy Perry Is First To 100m Twitter Followers
The US singer-songwriter Katy Perry has become the first person to reach 100m followers on Twitter. The website posted a video compilation of her tweets since she joined in 2009 along with a message...
Facebook Gives Bots Ability To Negotiate, Compromise
Facebook's artificial intelligence researchers announced Wednesday they had broken new ground by giving automated programs or 'bots' the ability to negotiate, and make compromises. The new technology...
Thai Police Bust 400,000 SIM Card Chinese ‘click Farm’
Three Chinese men were detained in Thailand on Tuesday after police discovered they were running a 'click farm' from a house near the Cambodian border to generate likes for Chinese products on social...
Let’s Fight Threats of Occultism Radically- Circuit Chairman
Brother Christian Gaisey-Otoo, the Sunyani Circuit Chairman of the Methodist Youth Fellowship at the weekend expressed concern about moral decadence among the youth in the country. He said the...
The World’s Highest-Paid Celebrities Of 2017
It has never been easier to become insta-famous, but for some celebrities, fame and fortune are perennial. Take Diddy: Nearly two decades after appearing on the cover of the first-ever Celebrity 100...