Category: Tech News

Only a month after music streaming application, SoundCloud announced that it will lay-off more than 40% of its workers, the firm has now appointed a new CEO and COO after getting an infusion of $170 million cash. The then-CEO and co-founder Alex Ljung revealed that it layed-off its employees to continue SoundCloud’s path to independent…

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Shocked by accusations that it allowed fake stories on its platform during the 2016 elections, social media giant, Facebook has began its conquest to create a feature to filter out fake news and regain the trust of its users. The tool will efficiently offer different perspectives for the same news, which will enable the users…

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Japanese carmaker, Mazda has decided to use diesel engine technology to protect the gasoline engine, with carmakers (including Mazda) finding a better alternative which would meet emission standards around the world. With many carmakers switching to electric cars, this move might come as a backward step by Mazda for many. However, the Hiroshima-based firm might…

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German automobile giant, BMW have recorded more profits than they initially expected, after its wide sales in Europe and Asia helped overcome a decline in sales in the United States. The firm revealed that its operating margins rose to 9.7% in the 2nd quarter, from last year’s 9.5% rise, which was in their target of…

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Recent reports have revealed that researchers at MIT have founded an algorithm that can interpret the language of posts on social media and determine if they are sarcastic or not. This breakthrough will also help people to get protected from online abuse, as the robot can understand sarcasm better than human beings. The tool translates…

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Marcus Hutchins, who hails from the United Kingdom, has been convicted as a suspect linked to the malware spread during July 2014 and July 2015. Hutchins was taken into custody on 2nd August after a hacking conference in Las Vegas. The charge claimed that the 23-year-old created and promoted a banking Trojan, which goes by…

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MSCI’s broadest list of Asia-Pacific offers outside Japan fell 0.7 for each penny on Thursday, with South Korea’s tech-overwhelming Kospi record drooping 1.7 for every penny to its most reduced level in more than three weeks. Seoul shares took an extra hit from President Moon Jae-in’s new duty design. Japan’s blue-chip Nikkei stock list shut…

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YouTube has used new innovation that has seen the quantity of radical and fear related recordings erased twofold of every a month — to a great extent without human mediation. More than 75 for every penny of radical recordings erased a month ago were evacuated before any human client “hailed” the substance as unseemly, under…

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Mobile phone giant, Apple has reported results which were more than the predicted ones for the past quarter, with higher revenue and profits leading to increase in the share price. The profit of the firm increased by 12% to $8.7 billion, while revenue experienced an increase by 7% to $45.4 billion, which was revealed in…

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A journalist and a data scientist, namely Svea Eckert and Andreas Dewes joined forces and have made an incredible research, claiming that anonymous browsing data can easily be exposed. At the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas, the duo showed their findings, revealing how they got access to a database which contained 3 billion…

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