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Singapore: 22-year-old man arrested for cheating of money via dating app

Novel smartphone app to detect your scent

Nanoscent is developing a smartphone app that, used together with a chip called a "scent recorder", can determine users' scent profile and help them select products.

Mar 27, 2018

By IANS

Texting and talking while walking makes you move funny

Phubbing ruins relationships, warn experts

Phubbing can take place anywhere and at any time as someone reaches for their phone and ignores their conversation partner

Mar 27, 2018

By IANS

Google blocks access to its apps on uncertified Android devices

Users won't be prevented entirely from loading ROMs but they will have to register their device IDs on a whitelist every time they undergo a factory reset.

Mar 27, 2018

By IANS

Twitter to ban cryptocurrency ads from Mar 27

Earlier this month, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey acknowledged that the company was facing an issue wherein copying verified Twitter accounts to trick cryptocurrency users was becoming increasingly prevalent.

Mar 27, 2018

By IANS

Ransomware payments affected South Koreans the most

Ransomware attacks, which encrypt and hold a computer user's files hostage in exchange for payment, comprise one of the fastest growing forms of cyber attack.

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

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Egypt launches WhatsApp hotline for reporting fake news

Egypt's citizens can report any of the fabricated news violations by sending messages to the General Prosecution office via the WhatsApp hotline.

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

Fake news

SpaceX founder Elon Musk waves at a press conference following the first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at the Kennedy Space Center

Nothing political, I just don't like Facebook: Musk

Prior to the deletion, both the two pages had over 2.6 million Likes and Follows, and super high engagement rates.

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

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#DeleteFacebook catches up, Elon Musk deletes SpaceX, Tesla Facebook pages

Responding to a Twitter call to take down the SpaceX, Tesla and Musk official pages in support of the #DeleteFacebook movement by saying "I didn't realize there was one. Will do."

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

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Novel AI tool may help tackle substance abuse in youth

Survey data gathered voluntarily from homeless youth, as well as behavioural theories and observations of previous interventions, were used to build a computational model of the interventions.

Mar 24, 2018

By IANS

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Musk deletes SpaceX, Tesla Facebook pages, Sonos withdraws ads

Mozilla announced that it was pulling its Facebook ads in light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and continued concerns over data security.

Mar 24, 2018

By IANS

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#DeleteFacebook: Elon Musk deletes SpaceX, Tesla Facebook pages

Less than half an hour, the verified Facebook pages of SpaceX and Tesla, Inc are no longer accessible.

Mar 24, 2018

By IANS

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Apple to stop Siri from reading hidden lock screen notifications

The fix is likely to come in iOS 11.3, which remains in beta testing, but Apple might also address the problem with a minor update such as iOS 11.2.7.

Mar 23, 2018

By IANS

Google Assistant now lets users send and request money

Users who do not have a Google Pay account would be prompted to set one up the first time they want to send money.

Mar 23, 2018

By IANS

Instagram testing standalone messaging app

Instagram to bring more newer posts to users' feed

The Facebook-owned company said it would share more about improvements it was making to the feed in the coming months.

Mar 23, 2018

By IANS

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Prince Harry's social media account name revealed

Since royals are not supposed to be a part of the social media world, Princess Eugenie of York, has become the first royal to have a personal social media account.

Mar 22, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

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