The National Science Foundation has given the University at Buffalo (UB) a grant of$20 million for launching a national centre to create artificial intelligence systems that can recognise and help children with speech and/or langu...
Two US agencies- the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have launched a tech sprint aimed at understanding the effectiveness of digital identity proofing. In a statem...
According to a news report, the internet monitoring firm Netblocks observed a nationwide power outage across Pakistan on 9 January 2021 that negatively impacted internet connectivity in the country. Real-time network data showed t...
In their submission to the Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), has expressed doubts whether cryptocurrencies in their current form -such as Libra and central ban...
TIERRA DEL MAR in Oregon is a small coastal town without traffic lights or cell service. Residents are working to stop Facebook from leveraging property it purchased within the community as a landing spot for an undersea fiber opt...
Singapore's Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) implemented in October 2019, demands that individuals and organisations amend posts that the government considers to be false or misleading. Since POFMA wa...
Microsoft has announced rolling out a new version of its Online Services Terms, following concerns raised by the Dutch Ministry of Justice over telemetry data that Microsoft collected from Office 365 Plus and Office 365 users.&nbs...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chief Technology Officer John Paul Farmer released an Internet Master Plan to provide high-speed, affordable Internet access to the city's five boroughs. The plan will be implemented in colla...
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Centre of Excellence conducted a study on country study on Peru that investigates how integrating civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) with identity managem...
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) chose eight companies as technology collaborators in Securing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): Cyber...
After long pressure on the platform for more stringent regulation of political advertising, Facebook has announced that it will not investigate the truthfulness of the political advertising as 'people should be able to hear from t...
Unlike other social media companies such as Twitter, who banned political ads in October, Facebook decided not to limit political ads on their platform. The company also refused to fact-check the ads arguing that they consider pol...