Google Lens can now identify works from local artists
Wescover, a San Francisco-based startup building a catalog of local artists and their work, today announced that it’s teaming up with Google to supply Google…
Day: July 2, 2019
Superhuman – an email app that Recently raised $33M is Spying On You
Superhuman its new feature that embed hidden tracking pixels inside of the emails its customers send out “Read Receipts”, the problem is that its turns…
Facebook to finally limit visibility of posts with misleading health information
Statement from Facebook saying : "In our ongoing efforts to improve the quality of information in News Feed, we consider ranking changes based on how…
4shared.com caught serving invisible ads and making purchases without consent
ecurity researchers say the app is secretly displaying invisible ads and subscribes users to paid services, racking up charges without the user’s knowledge or their…
Instagram’s newest Stories Sticker Lets People Ask Followers To Join a New Group Chat
The new feature, called the chat sticker, joins a bunch of other stickers Instagram has introduced to Stories, including polls, question boxes, mentions, locations, hashtags,…
Here We Go Again – Facebook Fined $2 Million For Not Disclosing Full Information
Germany’s Federal Office of Justice saidthe web giant had created a skewed picture of the extent of violations on its platform. Facebook said it had…
Cloudflare suffers another major outage
Web hosting provider Cloudflare has suffered a major outage that has taken many popular websites offline. According to web monitoring service DownDetector, Cloudflare has been…
Google no longer plans to support the Pixel C
On Monday, when Google released the latest monthly Android security patch, notably missing from the list of updated devices was the Pixel C, the company’s…
Chinese border guards put secret surveillance app on tourists’ phones
Software extracts emails, texts and contacts and could be used to track movements
2 Billion Records Exposed In Massive Smart Home Device Breach
Hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar from vpnMentor, found that a user database belonging to a Chinese company called Orvibo that operates a smart home…
VR is helping scientists discover new drugs
The same technology that's revolutionizing video games is being used to develop new drugs and fight some of the world's deadliest diseases.Chemists at C4X Discovery are using…
G20 Officially Support Guidelines To Force Crypto Exchanges Share Customer Data
On June 21, FATF, the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force released its crypto guidelines which compels exchanges to collect and transfer customer information such as originator’s…
Avangard – Russia’s Hypersonic Weapon Stuck In Production
Last year, Russian president Vladimir Putin bragged about several new weapons that were being developed. One of these was the Avangard, hypersonic boost-glide weapon, that…
Honda recalls another 1.6 Million Cars To Replace Inadequate Airbags
Honda is recalling 1.6 million cars in the United States to replace defective Takata front airbag inflators that do not contain a moisture absorbing desiccant.…
Lenovo Z6 Full Specs Revealed
The Lenovo Z6 is arriving on July 4, and just two days ahead of its launch, detailed specs sheet is revealed leaving nothing to the…
Pixels get improved “OK Google” with July’s Update
With latest update "OK Google" detection should be improved, as well as music detection and the performance of the dedicated Titan M security chip.Unicode Japanese…
First official image of Xiaomi’s Mi CC9 and Mi CC9e
Xiaomi is going to make the Mi CC9 and Mi CC9e official at an event in China tomorrow, on July 2.Ahead of that, the company's…
DC Comics ‘The Sandman’ To Become a Netflix TV Show
Netflix plans to adapt Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comic from DC Comics into a television series.The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman…
Facebook launched a new programming language – Move
Last week, Facebook announced a brand new cryptocurrency of its own called Libra and along with it a new programming language, Move, which is specifically…
ICANN Disappoints Community by Removing .org Price Caps
Despite the protest and community complaints, ICANN has agreed to remove price restrictions on .org domain names, letting the domain’s manager, Public Interest Registry, charge…