Instagram’s parent-company Meta is being probed by a consortium of US states

Facebook is battling one of its most serious reputational crises yet after a whistleblower leaked reams of internal documents showing executives knew of their sites’ possibility for damage, prompting a renewed US push for regulation. “Facebook, now Meta, has failed to protect young people on its platforms and instead chose to ignore or, in some…

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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced the parent company’s name is being changed to “Meta”

To represent a future beyond just its troubled social network. the new handle comes as the social media giant tries to fend off one its worst crises yet and pivot to its ambitions for the “metaverse” virtual reality version of the internet that the tech giant sees as the future. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp will…

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App That Detects Jaundice in Newborns Could Save Lives In Asia And Africa

Jaundice, a liver problem that causes the skin and whites of the eyes to turn yellow, causes 114,000 newborn deaths and 178,000 cases of disability a year. Three-quarters of the deaths occur in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, meaning the results of this new pilot study — published in the journal PLOS ONE and led…

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London’s transport authority on Monday refused to renew an operating licence for ride-hailing giant Uber because of safety and security concerns

Transport for London (TfL) has concluded that it will not grant Uber London Limited (Uber) a new private hire operator’s licence in response to its latest application,” it said in a statement. The American giant, which has 3.5 million customers and 50,000 drivers in London, described the move as “wrong” and added that it will…

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What’s coming in future versions of Chrome? Every time Google updates its browser>>>

Chrome continues to dominate the browser market, leaving rivals to swallow their pride and scramble for the leavings. Now with nearly 69% of the world’s browser user share – a measure of browser activity calculated monthly by analytics vendor Net Applications – Google’s Chrome has no peer. Rivals like Mozilla’s Firefox fight over scraps while…

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Why Wells Fargo plans to pilot its own cryptocurrency

Wells Fargo & Company this week announced plans to pilot an internal settlement service using a homegrown cryptocurrency backed by fiat money, starting with the U.S. dollar. Wells Fargo Digital Cash, which will run on the bank’s first distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform based on the R3 Corda Enterprise blockchain specification, will enable internal book transfers of…

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Windows 10 Redstone: A guide to the Insider Preview builds

Microsoft never sleeps. Even before the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903) started to roll out, the company began working on upcoming feature updates to Windows 10. As it did with version 1903, Microsoft has been releasing a series of public preview builds to members of Microsoft’s Windows Insider Program. After years of using “Redstone” in its…

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Project works with TensorFlow library, eases ML deployments

Now in beta, the open source Kubeflow project aims to help deploy a machine learning stack on the Kubernetes container orchestration system. The Kubeflow machine learning toolkit project is intended to help deploy machine learning workloads across multiple nodes but where breaking up and distributing a workload can add computational overhead and complexity. Kubernetes itself…

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