- March 25, 2023
Tech Giants
Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd has died at 62, the company announced Friday. Hurd had been on a leave of absence from the software giant since last month for unspecified health reasons. Hurd previously served as Hewlett Packard’s CEO for five years before resigning in 2010 after a sexual harassment investigation. A month later, he was […]
Global ICT Leader, Huawei Technologies carried the day as the only company to win four awards at the 2019 Mobex Africa Innovation Awards held last Saturday, to celebrate excellence, innovation and creativity among enterprises and individuals in Africa. At the Innovation Awards, Huawei’s 5G innovation emerged as the winner for the Most Innovative Service Provider […]
Facebook has confirmed about 200 million phone numbers from members have been exposed in an online database. The company said it was investigating who had compiled the database and left it online unprotected. It includes telephone numbers for about 18 million Facebook members in the UK. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said it had […]
A legal battle between two chip firms could see some of the world’s most popular gadgets removed from sale. Apple and Google’s products are among those that may have to be taken off the shelves because of the patent dispute. US-based GlobalFoundries (GF) is demanding an import ban of products that use processors manufactured by […]
Facebook is reportedly developing a new messaging app to help users share more information more often with their closest friends. The app which will be called Threads, is meant to be a companion to Instagram, as reported by The Verge. Threads is designed to automatically share intimate details such as “location, speed and battery life,” […]
Chinese search giant Baidu is now the world’s second biggest vendor of smart speakers, according to a new report from Canalys. The research firm says Baidu overtook Google to capture 17.3 percent of the global market with 4.5 million shipments in the second quarter of 2019, representing staggering year-on-year growth of 3,700 percent. Amazon remains […]
Google has shut down 210 channels on YouTube it said were part of a “coordinated” attempt to post material about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. The firm said attempts had been made to “disguise the origin of these accounts and other activity commonly associated with coordinated influence operations”. The search giant linked its move […]
The head of Xbox and gaming at Microsoft, Phil Spencer, has confirmed the company has not made plans to introduce a streaming-only console. Rumours in recent times have however suggested that Microsoft’s next-generation Project Scarlett console would ship with both a high-end version, and a “cloud console” with limited amounts of local compute for things […]
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Facebook hired human contractors to listen to audio from its Messenger app
Facebook has been paying outside contractors to transcribe audio clips from users of its services, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company claims it stopped using human workers to review audio clips more than a week ago, noting that contractors were checking whether Facebook’s artificial intelligence correctly interpreted the messages. […]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has not stopped at lofty talks of colonising Mars. He has even estimated the cost of having a self-sustaining civilization on the Red Planet which is “between $100 billion and $10 trillion”. Musk tweeted his estimates of building a city on Mars in response to a question posed by the Twitter […]
