(Photo : Pixabay/arivera) WhatsApp ban EU for three months A German regulator ordered Facebook to stop processing data on its citizens via the messaging service WhatsApp. The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, or HmbBfDI, said on Tuesday, May 11, that it has issued an injunction that prevents Facebook from processing personal data from WhatsApp. Facebook stated that it is considering to file an appeal. Facebook’s WhatsApp Gets Three-Month Ban Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant has been looking for new ways to monetize WhatsApp, which is used by more than 60 million people in Germany alone, ever…
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(Photo : The Benefits of Artificial Intelligence in Our Day to Day Lives ) Artificial intelligence has been around for a while now and continues to make life better for humans every day. Innovation has become a big part of the changing world, and different ways can be used to keep improving lives now and in the future. From smartphones to vehicles, there are many benefits that artificial intelligence has in day-to-day life. The most important benefits are the following: Automation One of the essential benefits of AI is automation because it makes it easy for production companies to increase…
Sally Buzbee, senior vice president and executive editor of The Associated Press, was named Tuesday as executive editor of The Washington Post, succeeding the recently retired Marty Baron.As AP’s top editor since 2017, Buzbee has directed AP’s journalism through the Covid-19 pandemic, Donald Trump’s presidency, the #MeToo movement, Brexit, protests over racial injustice and the 2020 U.S. election.Her emphasis on live coverage of breaking news events in all formats, augmented by deep enterprise reporting, has helped yield top awards, including Pulitzer prizes in feature photography and international reporting, along with six other Pulitzer finalists.In appointing Buzbee to one of the…
After months and months of being rumored, here they finally are: the NVIDIA RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti, the Ampere architecture’s first forays into entry-level hardware. But, as always with GPUs these days, there’s a catch. CNET finally revealed the existence of the brand-new NVIDIA cards, which are expected to replace the GTX 1650 and 1650 Super while offering access to ray tracing features. The catch, however, is that the RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti is only going to be featured on sub-$1000 gaming laptops–for now. (Photo : (Photo by Wu Jun/VCG via Getty Images))SHANGHAI, CHINA – AUGUST 03: A…
Israel unleashed new airstrikes on Gaza early Tuesday, hitting a pair of high-rise buildings believed to be housing militants, as Hamas and other armed groups bombarded southern Israel with hundreds of rockets. The conflict escalated relentlessly throughout the day, and Israel vowed that its strikes would only increase.The latest exchange of fire was sparked by weeks of tensions in contested Jerusalem.Since sundown Monday, 26 Palestinians — including nine children and a woman— were killed in Gaza, most by airstrikes, Gaza health officials said. The Israeli military said at least 16 of the dead were militants. During the same period, Gaza…
Antibodies against coronavirus remained in the blood of patients with Covid-19 for at least eight months after they were infected, Italian researchers said Tuesday.They were present “regardless of the severity of the illness, the age of the patients or the presence of other pathologies,” according to a statement from the San Raffaele hospital in Milan.The researchers, working with Italy’s ISS national health institute, studied 162 patients with symptomatic coronavirus who turned up at the emergency room during the country’s first wave of infections last year.Blood samples were taken in March and April and again at the end of November from…
India should not copy China’s birth-control policies and instead try to learn from its neighbour’s experience of countering the challenges of an ageing population, experts have said.Experts told HT that it is already too late for China to reverse the falling fertility rate, and the one-child policy, which is said to have kept China’s population down by hundreds of millions, should have been reversed at least three decades ago.China’s latest census on Tuesday revealed that its population increased by only about 72 million in the last decade to reach 1.41 billion compared to India’s 1.37 billion.The world’s most populated country…
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it was reviewing coronavirus data from Seychelles after the health ministry said more than a third of people who tested positive for Covid-19 in the past week had been fully vaccinated.Both the ministry and the WHO stressed that the majority of those who tested positive had not been vaccinated or had only received one dose, that no one who had died had been fully vaccinated and that nearly all of those needing treatment for severe or critical cases were unvaccinated.But the WHO said it was closely following the situation in the Indian…
The US is looking at the joint production of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine in India and ways to help Indian manufacturers, such as the Serum Institute of India (SII), ramp up production to meet vaccine needs around the globe, a senior American diplomat said on Tuesday.US chargé d’affaires Daniel Smith said the US stockpile of AstraZeneca vaccines – currently believed to be 10 million doses – can’t be shared with other countries till the jabs are certified as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because of problems associated with the plant that manufactured them.Smith,…
The new WhatsApp terms formally authorizing the data scoop are invalid because they are intransparent, inconsistent and overly broad, said Hamburg watchdog Johannes Caspar. Bloomberg | PUBLISHED ON MAY 11, 2021 07:02 PM IST Hamburg’s data regulator ordered Facebook Inc. to stop collecting German user data from its WhatsApp unit, saying the company’s attempt to make users agree to the practice in its updated terms isn’t legal.Hamburg watchdog Johannes Caspar issued a three-month emergency order, prohibiting Facebook from continuing with the data collection. He’s also asking a panel of European data regulators to take action and issue a bloc-wide regulation.…