Internet connectivity is trickling back in Iran after the government shut down access to the rest of the world for more than four days in response to unrest apparently triggered by a gasoline price hike. The shutdown across a nation of 80 million people was the first to effectively isolate a …
You might want to think twice before plugging in at an airport or on the train. A dead or dying phone or laptop is enough to send anybody on a mad dash to find a way to charge the device, but you might want to think twice before using that …
Drone sales to agriculture companies are expanding 22% a year Asia palm plantations cover an area about the size of the U.K. As haze blanketed large tracts of Southeast Asia last month, office workers with Genting Plantations Bhd. in Jakarta were investigating the source of the choking smoke more than a thousand …
You know you do it. It’s not safe, obviously. Here’s how to take control of your tech use. You’re walking around and a thought occurs: “I should check my phone.” The phone comes out of your pocket. You type a message. Then your eyes remain glued to the screen, even …
The agonies of videoconferencing IT WAS ONE of the viral videos of 2017. Robert Kelly, an American academic, was discussing South Korean politics live on BBC World News when his two small children, eager for daddy’s attention, toddled into the room to interrupt him. It was a natural, joyful moment. …
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, has an easy justification for his decision to run political ads on the platform no matter what lies they tell. He doesn’t want to play censor, so it’s up to the public to decide what’s true and what’s false. Twitter took a different path. Rather than promote or …
Source: Internet of things
Source: Internet of things
CAIRO (Reuters) – Internet access in the capital Baghdad and much of Iraq has been cut off, internet blockage observatory NetBlocks said late on Monday as the country experiences a wave of anti-government protests. “At the time of writing, national connectivity has fallen below 19% of normal levels sending tens …
Until recently, artificial intelligence has struggled to gain a foothold on Wall Street. No longer. In the last few years, large investment banks like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have hired artificial intelligence specialists away from academia and put them in charge of their internal AI divisions. Financial technology start-ups …
Source: Twitter Facebook and Political Ads
Source: Twitter Facebook and Political Ads
Twitter on Wednesday said it would ban all advertisements about political candidates, elections and hot-button policy issues such as abortion and immigration, a significant shift that comes in response to growing concerns that politicians are seizing on the vast reach of social media to deceive voters ahead of the 2020 …
Google has now given us an option to set search and location data to automatically disappear after a certain time. We should all use it. Last year you may have been addicted to Beyoncé. But nowadays you’re more into Lizzo. You also once went through a phase of being obsessed with houseplants, …
