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Sex tech startups Protest Against Facebook Policies

Sex Tech Companies Rebel Against Facebook Policies

In a protest against Facebook’s policies over banning of ads on their Pages and accounts, several sex and wellness tech startups run by women gathered outside the company’s New York office.

Facebook has approached Netflix for launching its own TV streaming service

Twitter, in Partnership With Shared Studios, Launches #Tweetups to Strengthen Global Conversations

E-mail attacks giving sleepless night to IT professionals

Tech collaboration between Waymo and DeepMind

Waymo, DeepMind collaborate to improve self-driving cars

Alphabet’s autonomous driving and robotaxi company Waymo does a lot of training in order to refine and improve the artificial intelligence that powers its self-driving software. Recently, it teamed up with fellow Alphabet company and AI specialist DeepMind to develop new training methods that would help make its training better and more efficient.

ISRO Performs Third Orbit Raising Activity For Chandrayaan-2 Successfully

Chandrayaan-2: Third Orbit-Raising Activity Completed Successfully India’s second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 lifts off onboard GSLV Mk III-M1 launch vehicle from Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The third orbit raising activity for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has been performed successfully at 3.12 p.m. on Monday, the Indian space agency said. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the orbit of the Chandrayaan-2 was raised to 276 x 71,792 km by firing the onboard motors for 989 seconds. All spacecraft parameters are normal, it said.

Websites using Facebook’s ‘Like’ button liable for data: EU court

Europe’s top court on Monday said websites using Facebook “Like” button are liable for data as “Like” button plugins can transmit data back to Facebook even if they don’t click on those buttons. The operator of a website that features a Facebook ‘Like’ button can be a controller jointly with Facebook in respect of the collection and transmission to Facebook of the personal data of visitors to its website,” said the Court of Justice of European Union (ECJ) in its ruling.

BlueTalon Data Privacy Firm Acquired By Microsoft

Microsoft has acquired a data privacy and governance service called BlueTalon. BlueTalon helps companies determine and set up policies for data access by employees. It then handles the enforcement of those policies and has tools for access and oversight.

Smartphone with Temporary virtual phone numbers

Temporary virtual phone numbers has been effective in increasing safety of users

If you do not want to share your primary phone number with everyone or keep one number for family and friends and another for professional purposes, temporary virtual numbers can offer you a way to maintain privacy, and at times increase safety.

The documentary ‘The Great Hack’ reveals how social media has been weaponized in the present times

The digital traces of our lives on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat are being mined into a trillion-dollar-a-year industry and there is no way out. We are now the commodity for tech giants who are constantly watching us, sharing our data with third-party organizations who, then, are analyzing that in great details for individual-level targeting, swaying voters, benefitting advertisers and what not.