Lockdown in China for Covid-19. Megacities producing high-tech products closed
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Since last May there has not been such a black day for world stock exchanges. A day to forget, all the stock exchanges were affected by the setback of Wall Street which yesterday closed in sharp decline due to the effects, not exactly exciting, of the new wave of Covid-19 cases, mainly linked to the spread of [ ...]
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Reuters announces the important news. #Huawei will no longer install the "social" applications #Facebook, #Instagram, #Whatsapp in the factory; this is due to the ongoing trade war between the US and China, which has already led #Google to remove the official #Android support from the Chinese giant's smartphones. The reason is due to the fact that Huawei is inside the [...]
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Saudi Arabia - Apple and Google are accused of helping to "strengthen gender apartheid" by offering an application on their platforms that allows men to track women and prevent them from leaving the country. Absher is available on both Google Play and the iTunes Store and is an app developed by the Saudi government that [...]
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According to a cybersecurity company and the European Union, Russia "would have prepared the way" for the seizure of the Ukrainian navy ships, launching a major cyber attack on government sites and disinformation to public opinion. A private cybersecurity company claimed that Moscow would launch a series of cyber attacks against servers [...]
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Google intends to launch a version dedicated to search engines in China to re-enter a thriving market that was abandoned eight years ago due to problems with the Chinese Great Wall, the state digital wall that does not allow free floating between the "bits" of the network. The plan comes as China has stepped up [...]
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Many Google employees signed, last April, an open letter to CEO Sundar Pichai asking to block the Maven project. The program that uses the artificial intelligence platform to analyze the images captured by the Pentagon's drones. About twenty technicians and managers have even resigned. The 9 million dollar contract [...]
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The Spanish government is considering putting a tax on Google and other digital companies to finance the increase in pensions and save the legislature. The news was launched by Roman Escolano, Minister of Economy who declared that he wanted to present as soon as possible the new tax that should come into force during [...]
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According to what was revealed by the tech magazine "The Verge", Google is working on a new messaging service for Android, which should replace text messages and have functions similar to those of Apple's iMessage. It's called “Chat” and technically it's a service that adopts the new Rich Communications Services (RCS) standard. It will add functions such as [...]
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Google of Alphabet Inc. regularly posts product queries from millions of buyers. Now he wants to do something more to help and inspire customers. The US technology company is partnering with retailers such as Target Corp, Walmart Inc, Home Depot Inc, Costco Wholesale Corp and Ulta Beauty Inc. As part of a new program, [...]
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Facebook has decided to entrust a group of journalists with the task of selecting the real news from those of dubious reliability. Google and Facebook are realizing that journalistic professionalism is important. In this context, it is urgent to safeguard a system of safeguards and rules ”. This was stated, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, on [...]
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(by Giovanni Calcerano) Scientists from Google and its health technology subsidiary Verily, using artificial intelligence and machine learning software, have identified a new way to assess the risk of heart disease. Specifically, a system has been created which, by analyzing the fundus scans of a patient's eye, is in [...]
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Deputy Head of the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation Alexei Volin intervened on rumors of Google that it is about to degrade the English-language content of Russian RT or Sputnik agencies. "If that were the case, the senior Russian official points out, it would cause a lot of questions from the Russian Federation for inappropriate content, [...]
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The proposal by Ajit Pai, president of the FCC (Federal communciation commission), to dismantle net neutrality has aroused strong protests from US-made web companies, starting with Google and Facebook, but also from startups. The BBC writes it. The principle of net neutrality in the US was sanctioned by law in 2015 [...]
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Since January 2018, Google has been gearing up to provide its users with new tools of protection and persuasion when they are redirected to unwanted or fictitious content. Google will do this through Chrome, also giving site owners the ability to check for breaches on their platforms. The violations of the sites occur [...]
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During the 2016 election campaign, approximately 126 million Americans may have opened posts on Facebook with content "manipulated" by the Russian government. This is what emerges from a statement drawn up by Colin Stretch, legal representative of the aforementioned social network and filed with the Senate Justice Commission. To publish this news, that [...]
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Google and Facebook are leaders on internet connections at the end of the first half of 2017, both registering an increase of over 2016 million users compared to June 2. This is what emerges from the Communications Observatory released today by Agcom, which specifies that on average browsing on Facebook and Whatsapp is slightly less than [...]
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According to the Washington Post, Google has uncovered evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election by buying ads on its platforms. It appears that the ads were not bought by the same Moscow-related group that bought ads on Facebook, which could mean that the Russian effort to hire [...]
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The Google company was born on 4 September 1998. A year earlier the search engine, the most visited website in the world, had appeared on the web for the first time. To register the trademark, which today appears every day on the screens of millions and millions of people, were two Stanford students: Larry Page and Sergey [...]
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He had set foot on Facebook with an internship at the age of 17. When he was 21, the social network offered him a full-time job in the engineering field. Now that he is XNUMX he has decided to leave by switching to Google. This is the prodigy Michael Sayman, who had helped the group understand how [...]
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Google tightens YouTube's rules even further to counter and combat the growing propaganda of religious and political extremists. The company, as of today, has changed the policy on content deemed "dangerous", preventing not only the sharing, but also the possibility of earning through advertising, which will be specifically disabled. Furthermore, before the start of one [...]
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