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Apple has plans to eventually, maybe revolutionise health care
In 2011, a startup called Avolonte Health set up shop in a small office park in Palo Alto, California. The company operated out of a bland, two-story building bristling with security cameras. Engineers interviewing for jobs there weren’t…
Esports joins Pan Am Games, but medals won’t count
SANTIAGO: Esports was welcomed – sort of – into the Pan American Games family on Nov 1, as gamers marched in their own opening ceremony and to their own anthem ahead of three days of competition that will not count towards the medal table.…
EU squeezes Meta on personal data use for targeting ads
BRUSSELS: The European Data Protection Board said Nov 1 it had adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users for targeted ads without their explicit consent.
The order…
Report: YouTube launched ‘global effort’ to crack down on ad blockers
Streaming platform YouTube is intensifying efforts to prevent users from using ad blockers, according to a report by The Verge.
Back in June, the company confirmed that it was conducting a small experiment to disable videos for users with…
Baidu launches paid version of ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese search engine giant Baidu launched on Wednesday a paid version of its ChatGPT-like product Ernie bot, charging 59.9 yuan ($8.18) per month.
Ernie bot, which like ChatGPT is powered by generative artificial…
Websites of all Singapore public hospitals, polyclinics suffer crash on Wednesday (Nov 1)
SINGAPORE: The websites of the major public hospitals, polyclinics and healthcare groups in Singapore could not be accessed on Wednesday morning (Nov 1) after they crashed at about 11.30am.
Users were unable to access the websites of the…
MyCert: Facebook ads impersonating KL mall and Khairul Aming lead users to phishing sites, hosting…
The Malaysia Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCert) said it has notified hosting providers to take appropriate action against phishing sites that were linked to a number of scam ads on Facebook.
In an Oct 30 alert, the agency said it…
Tencent, Kuaishou demand real names in China Internet tightening
China’s largest social media players from Tencent Holdings Ltd to ByteDance Ltd have asked their most popular influencers to display their actual identities, a major shift that tightens Beijing’s grip over the world’s largest Internet…
Beware of Ryan Gosling on the Web
Canadian actor Ryan Gosling is the celebrity most frequently used to scam Internet users, according to the 2023 ranking of celebrities most exploited by hackers published by antivirus vendor McAfee.
The ranking is based on the number of…
Hackers accessed 632,000 email addresses at US Justice, Defense Departments
A Russian-speaking hacking group obtained access to the email addresses of about 632,000 US federal employees at the departments of Defense and Justice as part of the sprawling MOVEit hack last summer, according to a report on the…