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Calls to abandon facial recognition use as wrongly identified Black...

The Detroit police has been challenged over face recognition flaws, bias, especially as it is prone to errors...

24 Jun 2020 6:44 PM IST

The in-app payment feature in WhatsApp, which could be accessed directly within a conversation with a participating business, was free for users. Businesses were to be charged a small fee similar to a typical credit card transaction.

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Blow to Facebook as Brazil suspends WhatsApp digital payments just a...

Brazil's central bank said the payments platform was anti-competitive and there were concerns over data privacy.

24 Jun 2020 6:06 PM IST

There will never be an Autonomous Zone in Washington, DC, as long as Im your President. If they try they will be met with serious force! Trump tweeted. Trumps tweet referred to the police-free district created by protesters in Seattle, in Washington state, two weeks ago, which has sparked outrage among conservatives. (Photo | AP)

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Can the US President not tweet he would 'force' against protestors?...

Twitter's move escalated the battle between the White House and social media firms.

24 Jun 2020 5:15 PM IST

Ben & Jerrys said it was also joining the Stop the Hate for Profit initiative supported by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and other rights groups. Facebook makes an estimated $70 billion annually from ads. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Hede2000)

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Facebook losing ads because of its inaction against hate speech

24 Jun 2020 4:31 PM IST

Googles net US digital ad revenues will drop 5.3 percent to $39.58 billion to bring its market share down to 29.4 percent

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Google ad revenues down, the duopoly it enjoyed with Facebook now a...

A big part of the decline will come from search advertising, or paid messages deployed by Google when a user enters a...

22 Jun 2020 9:03 PM IST

Swiggy said that it only operates as an intermediary and the prices displayed on the platform are directly uploaded by its partner restaurants. (Representative Image)

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Complaint against Swiggy for overpricing unsubstantiated, says...

Swiggy was accused of overcharging customers but the company said it's restaurants that decide the pricing.

22 Jun 2020 7:22 PM IST

The upper section of the arena is seen partially empty as US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the BOK Center on June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa Fire Department spokesperson Andy Little said the city fire marshals office reported a crowd of just less than 6,200 in the arena, which could seat 19,000, and where a crowd of 100,000 people were expected on the streets. (Photo | AFP)

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TikTok teens taking up mantle of subverting Trump campaign scupper...

The tech-savvy teens mobilised online and reserved tickets for Trump's Tulsa campaign rally with no intention of...

22 Jun 2020 5:20 PM IST

$Not just for the Black Lives Matter protests, George Soros is also being blamed by conspiracy theorists for the pandemic. In this image, a man holds a sign with the images of Hungarian-US billionaire George Soros (L) and Argentinas President Alberto Fernandez, reading \Virus = expropriation of companies\ during a demonstration called by small businessmen affected by the governments mandatory quarantine imposed for more than 13 weeks, to protest against the quarantine and the expropriation of the Vicentin agro-industrial company on the Obelisk in Buenos Aires, June 20, 2020. (Photo | AFP)$ Technology