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Elon Musk has now become Twitter’s largest shareholder and he is followed by an 8.8 percent stake owned by the mutual-fund company Vanguard and the 2.3 percent stake of Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s former chief executive. After news of Elon Musks’ buy-in was announced, Twitter shares soared about 25% in pre-market trading. At the time of writing this article, Elon Musk has more than 80 million followers on Twitter. Despite being the world’s richest man, Musk doesn’t hesitate to share memes on his Twitter account alongside updates from the companies he owns – including SpaceX and Neuralink....

This decision was made after MPs blamed the social media sites of “passing the buck” and their unwillingness in cracking down on terrorism in the fight against online extremism. The MPs also warned that social media sites feared it would “damage their brands” and that they were becoming the “vehicle of choice” for extremists. The tech companies, which have been criticised for allowing their online platforms to become a “recruiting platform” tool for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, said they would be able to identify propaganda more effectively by pooling their resources....

Making the announcement at the company’s AR/VR-focused Connect event on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that his company is rebranding itself as “Meta” in an effort to encompass into newer avenues like Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and smart glasses. The rebranding exercise comes after Zuckerberg and Facebook, in particular, have been under critical scrutiny over antitrust allegations. Also, the latest controversy where documents were leaked by an ex-employee, Frances Haugen who blamed the company for putting “profits over safety” has created a negative impact....

David Marcus, the vice president of Facebook has announced on the social media site that the company is testing a new feature for its mobile instant messaging platform, Facebook Messenger, that will automatically convert voice messages into text format. In a Facebook post, Marcus stated that, Say if you want to send a message to your friend, just tap the microphone icon, record the message and send. The purpose of this new feature is to allow users to simply read the voice messages sent to them rather than listen to them....

Earlier Facebook reminded you to call your mother, now the social networking behemoth is trying something different this Mother’s Day. It will be adding a new flower reaction to the already existing six reactions that it had enabled in Feb, 2016. The new reaction button which could be temporary and just for the upcoming Mother’s Day, was first spotted by a Twitter user Sreedev Sharma. — Sreedev Sharma (@sreedevsharma) May 5, 2016

After all the hype and hoopla surrounding the U.S. government request to Apple for unlocking the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, the U.S. government may not need Apple to unlock the iPhone. The issue one which everyone was either with Apple or with the U.S. government could used by the San Bernardino shooter, the FBI told a judge Monday. A federal judge agreed to postpone a Tuesday court in the FBI vs....

Once you download the WhatsApp 2.12.15 version you will see a revamped user interface with three tabs for calls, contacts and chats unlike the old version which has only two tabs for contacts and chats. Sadly the version of WhatsApp on Google Play varies from device to device so you will have to check up your version number by going to Help > About and continuously upgrading it to the latest version....

In this article, we show quick and easy tips you can use to clear the temporary files (cache)from your phone, leaving you with more storage. You can see the trick in action in this video from YouTuber iTwe4kz titled “one weird trick” garbage. Let’s go through the full process that was tested on an iPhone 6 Plus. This method works best if you have less than 1GB of storage left....

A group called Cyber Caliphate which is rabid pro-ISIS managed to take a French TV network off air, and hijack its website and Facebook page. 11 channels belonging to the French-language TV network, which broadcasts to more than 200 countries worldwide, stopped transmitting programmes after what was described as an “extremely powerful cyberattack”. After calling an emergency meeting to discuss the issue, the TV network’s director general, Yves Bigot, stated that it might take days for the TV5MONDE to recover from the attack, After hijacking TV5MONDE’s social media accounts, the attackers posted threats against French troops, publishing documents purporting to be the ID cards and resumés of French soldiers involved in anti-ISIS operations....

According to the officially published notes by US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), this new product will be “configured to wireless transmit power over the wireless power transfer link.” It means that this new system may charge multiple devices simultaneously with both wired as well as wireless connections. Apple is currently focusing on short range wireless charging only because long range wireless charging is not feasible. Because as the distance increases from the charger, power decreases rapidly and there’s a limited amount of power which can be transmitted to single device....

G20 summit security breached, secret projectors found inside the venue in BrisbaneG20 SummitSecurity Breach G20 Summit The Australia 2014 G-20 Australia summit will be the ninth meeting of the G-20 heads of government. It will be held in Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, Australia, on 15 and 16 November 2014. The hosting venue will be the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. It is expected to attended by a galaxy of world leaders....

The attack which started on Wednesday, emanated from scripts belonging to the internet giant Baidu. The scripts began directing useless traffic to two specific GitHub pages: one run by GreatFire, and the other offering translations of The New York Times, in the process bringing the entire GitHub down. The useless dataflow resulted in a massive DDoS attack on GitHub and caused it to go down on many occasions throughout Thursday night....

Auckland High Court Judge Murray Gilbert upheld a District Court ruling that there was enough evidence to send Dotcom and his three co-accused, Mathias Ortmann, Bran van der Kolk and Finn Botato for trial in the U.S. Since 2012, the U.S. has been seeking Dotcom’s extradition on 13 counts including conspiracy to commit racketeering, copyright infringement, wire fraud and money laundering. He also carries a maximum of 20 years in jail....

However, a newly discovered second data leak has now forced Google to shut down much before it has planned. According to the company, a bug in the Google+ API has exposed the data of 52.5 million users, which has compelled the search giant to kill off Google+ in April 2019. The company also added that the bug was fixed within a week of it being introduced. “We’ve recently determined that some users were impacted by a software update introduced in November that contained a bug affecting a Google+ API....

It has resulted in over a hundred thousand backlinks getting into a jiffy, unreachable for Indian audience users explicitly. Blogger was bought by Google in 2003, in a deal to expand in the publishing space. When we tried looking into the domain by WHOIS lookup, the following information appeared. It looks like the domain has been picked up by another entity named Domainming, which seems like a hosting, domain provider at first glance....

“For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for. “But most of the two billion Mastercard holders aren’t aware of this behind-the-scenes tracking. That’s because the companies never told the public about the arrangement,” Bloomberg mentions in its report....

Previously, the Ukrainian government was using an air raid warning system that currently runs through a third-party app on the Google Play Store to send air raid notifications to Ukrainians in regions with active alerts. — Dave Burke (@davey_burke) March 10, 2022 However, such a system is now being directly integrated into Android and is being rolled out via Google Play services. It leverages a “low latency alert mechanism” that Google built for earthquake alerts....

Previously, the grid view feature in the Web was limited only to four people on-screen at a time, which has now been extended up to 16 participants. Google Meet will now adjust the tile layout option to show active speakers. If you are in a meeting with more than 16 other people, there is an option to open the list of participants and see who else is in the meeting that’s not in the grid view....

The quality of both photos and videos have been enhanced with the latest version of GoPro. Furthermore, the major unique selling point of the entire GoPro lineup i.e. video stabilization has also been improved. So here’s everything you need to know about the new GoPro Hero 9. GoPro Hero 9 Black: Specifications And Features GoPro Hero 9 Black sports a 23.6-megapixel image sensor and the previous generation GP1 processor powers this action camera....

Sony is not known to be a particularly customer friendly company with many complaints of overcharging/wrong billing by PlayStation account users. However it crossed even that limit by harassing a genuine user for the wrongs committed by hackers. Brad Bourque, a PlayStation aficionado suffered so much at the hands of Sony guys that he has now come out in open about the run he was given by Sony on Yahoo....