A new TikTok competitor comes from Instagram, the company announced. The video-sharing feature – Reels, is going to be available in the United States and fifty other countries. The announcement comes just one week after the company started testing the platform in India.
Sundar Pichai, the CEO for Google and Alphabet, announced the “Digitization Fund” plan for India. Thus, the company will invest $10bn in partnerships, ecosystem, operations and infrastructure.
In his post, Pichai emphasized that the company intends to create “new…
Google will open a new data centre in Poland and will be training 10,000 people only this year. Thus, the new data centre should support cloud services.
The company will invest about two billion dollars, according to Magdalena Dziewguc, head of Google Cloud business…
Facebook developed an exploit tool, in order to help FBI hack a man for harassing girls on the social network.
The hacking tool exploits a flaw in Tails
Facebook mentioned that it had been tracking the man from California for years. He was using the secure operating system…
After the release last week, Microsoft decided to block the Windows 10 update on some devices. According to the company, the decision came as it admitted that there are some known issues preventing the update from being installed on some machines.
The company mentioned that…
Remote work seems to have increased productivity of the employees, during the pandemic. Although there were security issues and concerns regarding this way of working, more than 38% of the companies in the U.S.A. observed productivity gains. Moreover, 84% of them consider…
For mishandling user information, Canada’s Competition Bureau established a new fine for Facebook. The Bureau decided a penalty of 6.5 million USD. This is far smaller than the one that international regulators decided in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The decision…
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said that four US communications giants sold users’ location data. So, the commission suggested it might fine the nation’s four major wireless carriers, for selling the data without safeguards to prevent misuse. AT&T…
Google announced that Chrome will block risky downloads, soon. This step is set in order to make browsing more secure. Thus, Google considers “mixed content downloads” initiated on HTTPS web pages but which originate from HTTP pages, as unsafe.
So, starting Chrome 83…
Google announced less intrusive ads in videos both in its Chrome browser and on YouTube. Thus, Chrome will block ads that play in the middle of videos up to 8 minutes long. Also, YouTube won’t show those ads in the first place.
The decision comes as Google wants to…
