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
In recent years, and especially during the past few months, with the emergence and spread of Covid-19 on a global scale, the Forex Market has seen a surge in new African traders joining the trading environment. There are now daily increases recorded in the Forex Market as more traders discover opportunities and possibilities in trading
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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 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 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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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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In a hearing with plenty of criticism aimed at Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, Kentucky Republican Andy Barr lodged a defense of the company’s attempt at innovation in financial services. He said: Criticism is cheap. Anybody can criticize. As you can see here today, politicians in Washington are pretty good at lodging criticism. But creating something
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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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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,
Read More →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 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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