Tech News update

Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it would hold its annual shopping event, Prime Day, on Oct. 13 and 14 as the e-commerce giant aims for an early kickstart to the holiday season. The company earlier this year had postponed the two-day shopping…
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Google enabled tokenisation across its payment platform Google Pay today. Now, Android users will be able to make transactions on near-field communication (NFC) -enabled POS terminals and online merchants via their phones. By using the…
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Facebook Business Suite is a new hub on mobile and desktop where businesses can access tools to manage their presence on Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. Currently, Business Suite has capabilities such as: Posting Messaging Insights…
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Since August 10th or so, there has been a number of publishers complaining that the traffic Google sends them via Google Discover has dropped off the cliff. The complaints have not subsided yet and some feel it has to do with the Google…
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Google Cloud and AMD unveiled a “confidential computing” initiative over the summer that maintains data encryption in memory and elsewhere outside of the CPU. The scheme utilized hardware-based encryption within AMD’s latest EPYC…
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Cybersecurity firm SpyCloud today closed a $30 million venture financing round, which cofounder and CEO Ted Ross says will be used to grow the company’s product and engineering teams as they build new ways to detect and prevent fraud. It…
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Homebound customers of Uber Technologies Inc more than doubled their orders from the company’s food-delivery service in the second quarter but demand for ride-hailing trips only marginally recovered from pandemic rock-bottom. The company…
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Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was identified as the mastermind of a scheme that commandeered prominent Twitter accounts and scammed people A Florida teen was identified Friday as the mastermind of a scheme earlier this month that commandeered…
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Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Facebook all beat expectations in their latest earnings reports. On Thursday (30 July), after a US congressional hearing questioned the practices of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, the four companies…
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The New York Legislature has passed a two-year moratorium on the use of facial recognition in schools. The ban approved by the House and Senate on Wednesday follows an upstate district’s adoption of the technology as part of its security…
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