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Uber diversity report shows shortage of women, minorities

Uber Technologies Inc released its first diversity report on Tuesday, showing that women and non-white employees are underrepresented at the ride-services company – just as they are at many other technology firms. Uber released the information after a series of revelations about

Social Media has changed the way events and news are reported

Two weeks ago perhaps only a few people knew who George Floyd, was. But today millions know that name. The man murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis. The name George Floyd has become the flag that further highlighted and exposed racism, police brutality and the unjust killings of black people by the police in

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Google says most employees will work from home until 2021

Google has said most of its employees will work from home until next 2021 – the latest major firm to stick with social distancing measures until next year. Reports said Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive officer, told employees on Thursday to prepare to work from home until October and possibly into next year. In taking

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Samsung unveils foldable Galaxy Z phone, Galaxy S with 5G

Samsung Electronics unveiled updated versions of its flagship Galaxy S range on Tuesday and is expected to debut a square-shaped foldable smartphone, as the Korean cell phone maker seeks to revive sales after ceding its smartphone crown to Apple Inc last quarter. At a glitzy event in San Francisco, beginning at 2 p.m. ET, Samsung

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Richard Drew/AP/REX/Shutterstock (9484480d) The logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York's Times Square Financial Markets Wall Street Facebook, New York, USA - 29 Mar 2018

Millions of Facebook user phone numbers exposed online

More than 267 million Facebook user phone numbers, names and user IDs were exposed in a database that anyone could access online, adding to a long list of privacy and security mishaps that continue to plague the world’s largest social network. Researchers aren’t sure how the database was created. It could have been illegally compiled

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PayPal first company to drop out of Facebook cryptocurrency Libra

PayPal has become the first company to pull out of an alliance that is trying to launch Facebook’s digital currency Libra. PayPal announced in a statement on Friday afternoon but did not specify what had prompted the decision. Libra and its digital wallet Calibra were revealed by Facebook in June. But the cryptocurrency has been

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Samuel L. Jackson’s voice coming to Amazon Alexa devices

Amazon has announced that its virtual assistant Alexa will soon be able to mimic the voice of the actor Samuel L Jackson among other celebrities. The Hollywood star is the first celebrity voice to be rolled out on Alexa, in a feature that will be made available to users later this year for a fee,

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Richard Drew/AP/REX/Shutterstock (9484480d) The logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York's Times Square Financial Markets Wall Street Facebook, New York, USA - 29 Mar 2018
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Facebook teams up with police to stop streaming of terror attacks

Facebook on Tuesday teamed up with the London police as part of an increased effort to thwart live-streams of terror attacks such as the New Zealand mosque massacre. A self-professed white supremacist used a head-mounted camera in March to broadcast live footage on Facebook of him attacking two mosques in the city of Christchurch. The

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the opening keynote introducing new Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram privacy features at the Facebook F8 Conference at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on April 30, 2019. - Got a crush on another Facebook user? The social network will help you connect, as part of a revamp unveiled Tuesday that aims to foster real-world relationships and make the platform a more intimate place for small groups of friends. (Photo by Amy Osborne / AFP) (Photo credit should read AMY OSBORNE/AFP/Getty Images)

Facebook Paid Contractors to transcribe users’ audio messages without permission

Facebook has become the latest tech giant to face scrutiny over its handling of users’ data, following a report that said the social media giant been paying hundreds of contractors to listen to and transcribe users’ private audio chats, some of which are X-rated. The company confirmed that it had been transcribing users’ audio and

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