The use of facial recognition for surveillance, or algorithms that manipulate human behavior; will be banned under proposed European regulations on Artificial Intelligence AI. The wide-ranging proposals, which were leaked ahead of their official publication, also promised tough new rules for what they deem high-risk AI. That includes algorithms used by the police and in […]
A number of OnePlus 9 Pro owners say they’re getting persistent overheating warnings, often with the use of the camera app. Android Police spotted the mounting number of reports; many of which are collected in a thread on OnePlus’ support forum and often mention the use of the camera app in connection with the warnings. […]
KARACHI: WhatsApp has announced to once again roll out its peer-to-peer money transfer feature after the Facebook-owned service experienced a setback in Brazil last year. In June 2020, WhatsApp had launched its digital payments and funds transfer feature in Brazil wherein users could send money to their friends and relatives but the country’s central bank said […]
Facebook plans to launch an office in Pakistan. As per sources; Facebook is planning to launch three big projects from which one is to launch an office in Pakistan. Speaking on the development; Advisor to Chief Minister (CM) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Science, Technology and Information Technology (ST&IT) Zia Ullah Bangash said that; Facebook […]
After Facebook-owned apps WhatsApp, Facebook messenger, and Instagram experienced outages on Friday evening across the globe; many users — who couldn’t seem to wait to re-establish a connection with their friends and loved ones — rushed to register on Signal. Taking to Twitter, messaging app Signal welcomed all new users and announced that registration on […]
The photo-sharing app Instagram and online messaging app WhatsApp have been down in most countries of the world. The social media giant is yet to provide an official response to the complaints. In fact, It should be mentioned here that Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all owned by the social media giant Mark Zuckerberg. […]
NEW DELHI: WhatsApp has hired a top Amazon executive to head its payments business in India, two sources told Reuters, as the messenger service gears up to expand in the booming sector. Manesh Mahatmas, who has worked at Amazon Pay for nearly seven years, is due to join WhatsApp’s payment service soon, one of the […]
YouTube is rolling out a short-form video-streaming service; on its platform in the United States as it looks to better compete; with rival TikTok in the hugely popular category. The service, Shorts, lets users record mobile-friendly vertical videos that can spice up with special effects and soundtracks pulled from a music library. “Starting today and […]
The war of words between Apple and Facebook is far from over after WhatsApp CEO Cathcart attacked the company in a recent podcast. Speaking at the “Big Technology Podcast”, the WhatsApp CEO said Apple did not want people to use Android phones. He gave the example of the US, saying that more people were using […]
On Thursday, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has replied to media reports claiming that the state institution did not get a positive response from TikTok. “With reference to the hearing on TikTok App in Peshawar High Court today, it is being quoted in certain section[s] of media that the PTA director said the authority […]
