The Facebook Oversight Board has overturned the social networkâs decisions in four of the first five cases that itâs ruled on. The cases collectively covered Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. All the rulings will be binding. Facebookâ âsupreme courtâ provided summaries of the five decisions: Overturned: the removal of a post commenting on the supposed lack of reaction to the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China compared to... Read more âș
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TLDR: The 2021 Amazon Web Services Certification Training Bundle explains everything it takes to build, run, and grow a cloud-based system on the AWS platform. If you want to understand the true power of the Amazon Web Services platform, look no further than recent events. The upstart social media platform best known as the conservative answer to Twitter was riding high and winning converts â that is, until it ran... Read more âș
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While software is eating the world, itâs also siloing data along the way, stifling progress and innovation in the enterprise. Cybersecurity is woefully behind other industries in embracing an API-first mentality, and itâs finally reached a breaking point. In the last year, research compiled in the Cloud Security Allianceâs on Cloud-based Intelligent Ecosystems and the Ponemon Cyber Resilience Study states: Enterprises deploy, on average, 47 different cybersecurity solutions and technologies.... Read more âș
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Bumble has stepped up its efforts to provide a safe dating space for users by banning body-shaming on the app. The app will use an algorithm to flag derogatory comments about someoneâs appearance. âThis includes language that can be deemed fat-phobic, ableist, racist, colorist, homophobic or transphobic,â the company said in a statement. Human moderators will then review the offending account. People whoâve use the language in their profile or... Read more âș
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One of my favorite longburn stories over the past couple of years is the Apple privacy drive. Itâs a winding narrative, but the easiest way to sum it up is the company has made privacy one of its leading products. This has been bubbling away in the background for some time, but hit fever pitch recently with the launch of iOS 14. You can read more about the specifics of... Read more âș
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The European Union is reportedly working on plans to help fund electric vehicle (EV) battery production within the bloc to prevent potential dominance from China. According to reports, the EU looks set to commit $3.5 billion to 42 companies, including Tesla, BMW, and Stellantis, to support them with Europe-based battery development and production. The EU Commission has approved the project, which will run until 2028. [Read: How Netflix shapes mainstream... Read more âș
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This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. London hit the target of adding 300 more electric vehicles (EV) rapid charging points to its network before the end of 2020,... Read more âș
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Funding is one of the biggest challenges in the entrepreneurial journey. Navigating the world of venture capitalists and storytelling is no easy feat, especially when looking for your first seed round or a million-dollar investment. Not to mention, against the backdrop of COVID-19 and a heavily disrupted investment sphere, early-stage founders now face an even more complex road to securing funding. The business landscape has no doubt changed for good... Read more âș
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The link between COVID-19, smell, and taste disturbance became apparent in March 2020 as the pandemic swept around the globe. To date, nearly 100 million people have been infected with the coronavirus. Around 60% will have experienced smell and taste disturbance â with 10% having persistent symptoms. This means that about 6 million people â and rising â have this symptom. So what can be done about it? Smell loss... Read more âș
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As part of its quarterly earnings call yesterday, EV maker Tesla showed off renderings of an upcoming 2021 Model S refresh. The piece thatâs got everyone talking is its butterfly, or as others call it, the Knight Rider-style steering wheel. But I have some bad news. That steering wheel probably wonât make it in to the production model. Sorry. Yeah, itâs super cool â and youâd be able to drive... Read more âș
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Vivaldi browser has had a unique approach to tab management. Over the years, it has introduced features such as stacking, muting, and pinning tabs; it also lets you view two tabs in a split-screen mode in one window. The brainchild of Opera co-founder Jon von Tetzchner is getting a hot new feature with Vivaldiâs latest update â two-level stacked tabs. Iâm excited about this as this makes navigating through groups... Read more âș
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WhatsApp is adding another layer of security to its web app today, helping stop others from accessing your account when youâre not looking. In an update rolling out soon, WhatsApp will begin to require biometric authentication â such as a fingerprint or face ID â before you can use the service on your desktop. Unlike Facebook Messenger and other services that work with a simple user name and password, WhatsApp... Read more âș
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Workers who communicate with their colleagues mainly through videoconferencing are far less effective at building relationships than when the communication is done face to face, according to a study we recently completed and just submitted for peer review. We also found two important ways employees can overcome the downside of video meetings. Workers in our study reported a sharp deterioration in their work relationships after more of their communications were... Read more âș
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WhatsApp is the most popular chat app in the world, with more than 2 billion monthly active users. However, its fame has been hurt in the last couple of weeks with potential issues related to user data privacy. First, there were WhatsApp labels in December on the App Store that suggested the vast amount of data the app collected in comparison to other messaging apps. Then earlier this month, the... Read more âș
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Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNWâs bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. Well, that escalated quickly. After alerting users of a change in privacy policy earlier this month and kicking up a storm, WhatsApp has backed downâ for now. The in-app alert on January 6 urged users to agree to the new terms and conditions... Read more âș
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During Facebookâs quarterly earnings call today, Mark Zuckerberg highlighted some major changes coming to Facebook. After years of being the primary news source for many people, Facebook has decided it wants to show less political content. According to Zuckerberg, âthere has been a trend across society that a lot of things have become politicized and politics have had a way of creeping into everything.â He noted âone of the top... Read more âș
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What happens when the pandemic finally ends and hundreds of millions of people whoâve spent an inordinate amount of time secluded are suddenly launched back into the rat race? Things will likely never go back to normal, but eventually weâll find a way to occupy space together again and that could be difficult for people whoâve developed social anxiety or had setbacks in their treatment due to the unique nature... Read more âș
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A team of researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital recently published a study linking social awareness to individual neuronal activity. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time evidence for the âtheory of mindâ has been identified at this scale. Measuring large groups of neurons is the bread-and-butter of neurology. Even a simple MRI can highlight specific regions of the brain and give scientists an indication... Read more âș
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Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasnât defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15 years. Itâs an impressive technical achievement, but that dominance has also made top-level chess less imaginative, as players now increasingly follow strategies produced by soulless algorithms. But a new research paper shows that AI could still make the game... Read more âș
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TLDR: The Podsite Podcast Website Builder builds an entire website around your podcast and even keeps everything automatically updated. So, youâve decided to follow the Joe Rogan-Marc Maron path and become a podcast tycoon. Great! Welcome aboard. So once youâve recorded the whole thing, edited it, then posted it to your podcast feed on iTunes or Spotify, youâre all done, right? Not exactly. Just like everything else on the web,... Read more âș
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