Tag: meta
Tech Digest daily roundup: Goodbye Google Stadia
Google has just released the last ever game for the Stadia platform, ahead of its shutdown today (January 18). After much speculation, Google confirmed that the Stadia would be shutting down last September, with the cloud gaming service set to shut up shop today. Ahead of the shutdown though, Google has released one last game…
EU businesses fined over €830 million for GDPR violations in 2022
The latest data analyzed by Atlas VPN reveals that as of December 2022, companies paid a total of €2.83 billion in 1401 cases for violating various data protection laws. Out of that, GDPR fines in 2022 total €832 million, which is 36% lower than the €1.3 billion paid in 2021. However, last year stands out…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Apple Books launches AI-narrated audiobooks
Apple has launched a raft of audiobooks narrated by artificial intelligence to its Apple Books platform, but maintains it “remains committed to celebrating and showcasing the magic of human narration”. According to The Guardian, which said the tech giant had “quietly” uploaded the text-to-speech content in “an attempt to upend the lucrative and fast-growing audiobook…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Apple’s self-repair service comes to UK
Image: Apple Apple is rolling out its self-repair service to the UK and seven other European countries on Tuesday. iPhone 12 and 13 users, and some Macbook owners, will be able to fix their own devices by buying parts and tools and watching online tutorials. But the tech giant warned that…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Twitter Blue goes live in the UK
Twitter Blue, the social media platform’s subscription service that allows users to buy a blue verification badge for the first time, has gone live in the UK. Twitter users on Apple’s iOS can now sign up and pay for the service, which will give them the blue-tick badge next to their profile name on the…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Meta to slash 13% of workforce
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has become the latest big tech player to wield the axe in the tougher global economy, laying off 13% of its workforce. The firm announced on Wednesday it will cut its global headcount by more than 11,000 employees as part of a wider shake-up of the business that…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Facebook groups using carrot emoji to hide anti-vax content
Image: BBC Facebook groups are using the carrot emoji to hide anti-vax content from automated moderation tools. The BBC has seen several groups, one with hundreds of thousands of members, in which the emoji appears in place of the word "vaccine". Facebook's algorithms tend to focus on words rather than images.…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Leak reveals Samsung launch event details
Just one week before the next Galaxy Unpacked 2022 event, all the upcoming Samsung products have been leaked. Legendary leakster Evan Blass (@evleaks) published high-resolution press renders of the Galaxy Z Flip 4, Galaxy Z Fold 4, Galaxy Watch 5, Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, and the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro in all their regular color variants. This is not the first…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Shaun the Sheep to fly on NASA’s Artemis 1
Image: Aardman Ewe-ston we have a problem? The European Space Agency (ESA) has named its first astronaut to fly on its NASA's Artemis I lunar mission: Shaun the Sheep. No stranger to outer space following his exploits aboard a UFO in his big screen caper Farmageddon, the space-sheep will be going…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Meta accused of keeping deleted Messenger data
Meta has been accused of secretly keeping users' deleted Messenger data and sharing it with police by a former employee. Brennan Lawson, who worked for the social media company after leaving the US Air Force, has filed a legal complaint alleging that Facebook created a tool to access Messenger data that users thought they had deleted.…