The UK government has announced that the Alan Turin Institute, supported by the British Standards Institution and the National Physical Laboratory, will establish an AI Standards Hub aimed at increasing UK contribution to the deve...
The Google News Initiative (GNI) announced that it is launching its COVID-19 Vaccine Counter-Misinformation Open Fund and will make up to US$3 million available for the cause. It noted that the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines ...
WhatsApp users in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are increasingly wary about the privacy of their data and are considering making the switch to Signal or Telegram messaging apps. These apps have become popular choices; however, so...
Uganda has ordered internet service providers to block social networks within its territory. As Ugandans prepare for the parliamentary and presidential elections, the ban comes amid an electoral process that has been marked by vio...
Cisco and a telecommunications operator for the residential and business market in Italy, EOLO, partnered to improve the latter's fixed wireless access network to extend its ultra-broadband connectivity to rural areas. This cooper...
Nauru President Lionel Aingimea and US Under Secretary Keith Krach agreed on the importance of securing telecommunications infrastructure and ensuring safe technology supply chains based on internationally accepted digital trust s...
Scientists at the Columbia University in New York, USA have used a gene editing technique to store digital data inside living bacteria. With the help of a clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) adaptatio...
Over 50 civil society organisations have sent a letter to the European Commission demanding that clear regulatory red lines are introduced in the commission's upcoming legislative proposal on artificial intelligence (AI), to preve...
According to the Financial Times, British Airways is facing the largest group claim over a data breach following a 2018 incident that exposed personal data of more than 400 000 customers. More than 16 000 customers have joined the...
Airbnb announced it will analyse all Washington DC reservations and cancel the bookings regarding individuals found to be related to hate groups. Individuals engaged in the riots of the Capitol on 6 January will be permanently exc...
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel considered the US president Donald Trump's ban from Twitter problematic, according to her spokesman Steffen Seibert. Seibert mentioned that online platforms shall not stand back when hatred conte...
The social network Parler has sued Amazon before a US federal court, accusing breach of antitrust laws. Parler was suspended from Amazon's cloud computing service for alleged violations of its term of services. The social network ...