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Meta
Facebook worker is fired for accepting bribes to restore banned accounts
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A Facebook contractor has reportedly accepted thousands of dollars in bribes to reactivate banned accounts, according to an investigation by BuzzFeed News. A marketing agency based in San Diego, Ads Inc., reportedly paid $5,000 initially and then $3,000 each month to a contractor in Austin office...
Apps
Google Maps for iPhone gets incognito mode
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Google Maps for iOS will start getting Incognito mode update from today. This is the same Incognito mode feature update which was released for Android in October. It is part of Google’s effort to grant users more control of their privacy. Google announced to...
Google
Larry Page & Sergey Brin steps down, Sundar Pichai to become CEO
Alphabet’s CEO Larry Page and its President Sergey Brin have decided to step aside from their offices. They decided to pass the responsibility to Google’s Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai, who in result, will be the CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet. On this...
Featured
Top 5 tech news of the week
Here are the top five tech news by popularity of last week. Singapore tells Facebook to correct anti-government post on 29 Nov An online news publishing website State Time Review shared a post on their Facebook page mentioning about an arrest of a whistleblower by the Singapore...
YouTube
Patreon bans YouTuber Onision due to doxxing charges
Patreon has banned YouTuber Onision after allegedly doxxing fellow YouTuber Billie Dawn Webb on Twitter. Gregory ‘Onision’ Jackson profile has been removed from the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Patreon helps content creators and artists to build a direct relationship with their biggest fans and provide...
China
TikTok suspends teen’s account for criticizing China
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TikTok has suspended an account of a teenager Feroza (username: getmefamouspartthree), who posted a series of viral videos attacking China on Uighur Muslims. The videos start as eye-makeup tutorials, to avoid being moderated, but later persuade people and countries to raise voice against...
Google
Google fires four employees, including Rebecca Rivers and Laurence Berland
Google has terminated its four employees on the charges of violating the company’s privacy policies, data security, and employee safety. Before this decision, Google has already put two employees on leave for allegedly breaching the confidential documents of the company. According to Google, they...
Electric Cars
Elon Musk tweets new Cybertruck glass test video before Tesla event
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Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, shared a tweet showing Cybertruck glass test video with a steel ball thrown on it. In the twenty-second video, Franz von Holzhausen, the Chief Designer of Tesla is shown throwing the ball on the side window of the truck. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1198090787520598016 Tesla's all-electric...
Social Media
Snapchat Time Machine AI makes you look younger or older
Snapchat has introduced a new filter showing your age evolution dubbed as Time Machine filter. Snapchat has introduced an attention-getting filter named "Time Machine" which allows users to witness their changed appearance by just gliding the screen. People want to know how they will look...
Entertainment
Amazon Music is free now on iOS, Android, FireTV, with ads attached
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Amazon has announced that Amazon Music is free now to anyone using the app on iOS, Android and Fire TV. This service is available free via the web app as well. Amazon is going to broaden its horizon towards music and offering free music with...
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