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U.S. lawmakers on Fri officially asked Facebook Inc's Tag Zuckerberg to describe at a congressional ability to hear how 50 million users' data experienced the hands of politics consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The world's most significant social mass media network is under growing pressure from government authorities, investors and promoters. This comes after allegations by the whistleblower that United kingdom politics consultancy Cambridge Analytica incorrectly reached users' information to make information on American voters which were later used to help choose U.S. Chief executive Donald Trump in 2016. "The ability to hear will take a look at the harvesting and sales

Artificial intellect, smart living and smarter gizmos likely to be big at CES 2018. A few of the most popular gizmos over the vacation season were smart audio system with digital assistants from Amazon.com and Google. Apple is developing its own presenter this season; Microsoft and Samsung have partnered on another. As the twelve-monthly CES gizmo show begins in NEVADA this week, manufacturers are anticipated to unveil even more voice-controlled devices -- speaker systems and beyond -- as Amazon.com and Google make their digital assistants on a wider selection of products. If these prove popular, you'll soon have the ability

As soon as the announcement by Coinbase came that soon it’s going to add full support for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) on their platform, the cryptocurrency pitched more than 80% within just 24 hours. To your information, this record marks the highest push the digital currency has break until now. Soon users would be able to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase and GDAX. The “altcoin” or alternative cryptocurrencies are also going conventional as Bitcoin Cash rose up to $4,355.62 yesterday, showing an 81.5% boost within last 24 hours, according to data released by by CoinMarketCap. At the moment, BCH is

Google Chrome to get started on blocking advertisements that are not compliant using its 'Better Ads Standards' from 15 February. Google is generally an advertising company, it includes announced that beginning with 15 Feb 2018, certain advertising on Google Stainless- will be clogged. This stop includes Google's own advertisings as well. This course of action, called as the 'Better Advertising Experience Program', was released back June of the year. However, this is merely for those websites which do not move Google's 'Better Advertisements Standards'. This implies advertisements that happen to be overly troublesome, pop out unexpectedly, available new tabs, involuntarily

Singtel and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) have achieved an Asia-Pacific first in wireless technology by delivering a peak speed of 1.1 Gbps in a joint trial of a new configuration of Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) technology. Conducted in a Singtel laboratory, the trial delivered speeds that breached the 1 Gbps barrier by combining several key LTE technologies including 256 QAM, 4x4 MIMO, and aggregating two licensed and three unlicensed spectrum bands on a TM500 Test System device. Mark Chong, Singtel’s Group Chief Technology Officer says: “We are very encouraged by this breakthrough in peak speeds. In Singapore, a large percentage of mobile traffic

Apple is being reported to be close to buy a music recognition app namely " Shazam ". The app would cost Apple about $400 million  (£300million), different media reports has confirmed this purchase. Shazam is a UK based company that was founded in 1999. The company allows people to use their smartphones or computers to identify and buy their favourite music through a snippet of sound. Shazam is a company which claims to have more than one hundred million users each month. The company makes most of its revenue from commissions that are paid on referrals to iTunes Store of

A privileges group on 2o November asked the Chinese language government to avoid building big data policing systems to store private information of its human population, getting in touch with it a violation of personal privacy rights. The Human Protection under the law Watch's affirmation said the authorities Cloud was made to track and anticipate the actions of activists, dissidents and cultural minorities, and will not adhere to international privacy expectations, reports Efe media. "It is terrifying that Chinese government bodies are collecting and centralising a lot more information about vast sums of common people, identifying people who deviate from

T-Mobile is on the way to introduce the mobile world with another branded budget phone as it is now making the phone called the Revvl Plus as a sequel to the Revvl, which had been launched by carrier in August. The will be available just after a few days. According to the reports, some of the Revvl Plus would remain the same as the original Revvl, as the phone sports the same 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. Much like the first Revvl, the Revvl Plus has a fingerprint sensor. The phone  runs Android Nougat. But what is new

Swisscom and Ericsson reaffirm their long-standing, strategic partnership by continuing to drive innovation in Gigabit LTE and 5G Ericsson to provide complete digital transformation of Swisscom’s network to nationwide Gigabit LTE and deployment of 5G Transformation includes the deployment of Ericsson’s full stack telco cloud solution with network slicing technologies, and 5G portfolio offering with Massive MIMO Swisscom, the leading telecommunications provider in Switzerland, has selected Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) for complete digital transformation and evolution of its entire network to deploy nationwide Gigabit LTE from 2018, and 5G from 2020. The deployment of Swisscom’s Gigabit LTE and 5G network will

In a bid to weed out fake news, Facebook has recently tried out a new algorithm that did elevate comments with the word "fake". Facebook users were not pleased with this strategy and this attempt resulted in users being more annoyed than impressed. The test, which has been finished, was the latest attempt of social network to fight fake news. The important thing to notice is that Facebook is sticking to its word and continues searching for ways to eliminate fake news from the Facebook once and for all.  Long ago especially since 2016 election, Facebook has been accused of