Mastercard New Policy: Transgenders Can Use Their Preferred Names On MA CCs
Mastercard has adopted a new policy aimed at reducing a major source of stress for transgender and non-binary consumers.The company is introducing the “True Name”…
Google subsidiary Wing is first to use a new drone safety API
A subsidiary of Google called Wing is the first to use a new drone safety API developed by Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). Project…
Amazon Ditches Fedex, USPS ad UPS for its Own Delivery Platform
Amazon is building up a huge in-house delivery network that now moves the majority of its packages.Rakuten Intelligence said Amazon's percentage of late deliveries has…
Ripple Invested Half a Billion Dollar into the XRP ecosystem
Ripple's Xpring has invested $500 million in more than 20 companies in the blockchain space, with the ultimate goal of building out an ecosystem focused…
Chrome is Testing New Media Playback Controls That Work With Background Tabs
Chrome Canary now has a flag to enable "global media controls" in the toolbar. To enable to controls, head to chrome://flags/#global-media-controls. After a browser restart,…
U.S. Army Next Gen Tech – Synthetic Biology
The U.S. Army’s new Futures Command is accelerating research into synthetic biotechnology to help the military develop next-generation living camouflage and other never-before-seen organisms and…
China Unveiled Magnetic Levitation (maglev) Train Prototype That Is Faster Than Airplanes
Maglev is a system of train transportation that uses two sets of magnets, one set to repel and push the train up off the track,…
Kaspersky VPN Now Blocks ‘Pirate’ Sites in Russia
According to digital rights group Roskomsvoboda, Kaspersky is now fully respecting the contents of the FGIS database and actively blocking domains, including the many ‘pirate’ sites…
Belong.Life – Social Network For Cancer Patients
Belong.Life, the company behind the “Belong – Beating Cancer Together” mobile app, the world’s largest social network for cancer patients that enables easier access to health…
Apple reveals App takedown demands By Governments
Apple has published the number of requests it’s received from governments to take down apps from its app store. In its latest transparency report, published…
Facebook Forced to Halt Cryptocurrency Project
The Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on Facebook’s Project Libra on July 17 and a letter sent to company executives CEO Mark Zuckerberg,…
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…
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