Google admits its mistake and has to pay $136 million to the FTC and an additional $34 million fine to New York state for not meeting the standards of COPPA. The COPPA rule requires child-directed websites and online services need parental consent before taking any information from children below the age of 13. The penalty is the most the FTC has ever obtained this law came into being in 1998....
Google Phone New Feature To show that Google is concerned about all types of people, the company is making some features exclusively for impaired users to help them access their gadgets on par with others. And the new feature in the Phone app is one such achievement. Named as the Caller ID Announcement, Google trailed this feature in the Phone app since last year, before rolling it out to everyone now....
Weak Security Leading to Real-world Consequences Artificial Intelligence, and its subsidiary, Machine Learning has grown to be the modern technology field lately, just because they overrule the current technology. While these advances can help humans a lot shortly, organizations and security firms warn about relevant consequences if they’re improperly managed. A new joint report by the United Nations, Europol, and a security firm called Trend Micro state the risks of such advanced technologies if managed improperly....
There are quite many social media platforms that one can sign up with, for instance, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Yahoo, and many others. All these social networks will enable you to connect with new and old friends and family as well. Facebook is a famous social network platform that you can use on your laptop, iPhone, Android, and desktop computer through the internet. The choice is yours. Facebook also has a chat messenger....
When you access multiple tabs in chrome and work in one tab, then other tabs go inactive. So when you open those tabs, they show old content as they are inactive. So you need to use a third-party app to auto-refresh those tabs while working with one tab. You can set intervals of time so it can auto-reload and fetch the latest content. Also Read- How To Install Chrome Extensions On Android...
There are a plethora of new customization options available in Windows 11. You can even customize your taskbar. But, I think not many users are familiar with this feature. That’s why we are here with our new guide to help you understand this feature and explain the steps to change taskbar color in Windows 11. So, let’s get started. Also Read: Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (2021) – How to Use it...
Now, there’s a bit of drama during the Mac Pro’s lifespan and why Apple is sticking to tiny hard drives that fill up quickly even in 2021. Well, this is one of the questions that every Apple user wants to know eagerly. However, where the other competitors offer at least 512GB of storage why Apple only offers 256GB in their base models. Well, that’s still a mystery because only Apple itself knows this....
Google maps came with many features that users aren’t aware of. For example, one of its features is saving your favorite locations on the map. So you can remember easily where you visited and you like those places. But the question is how you can save your favorite places on google maps. Here we came up with a simple guide to demonstrate how to save favorite places on your smartphone and computer....
We often don’t know what may have been misconfigured, and that’s causing serious problems to your PC and eventually losing your data in some cases. While you may not realize the issue until the consequences occur, it’s better to run your system’s health scans to avoid disturbances. Microsoft offers a Memory Diagnostic Utility to check whether RAM is working properly or not. If you’re in a stage experiencing some issues in your system and suspect that RAM could be blamed, here’s how to find that out;...
Snapchat is mainly for Smartphones, but of course, there are times when you need to use it on a PC. There are times when you have no access to your smartphone, and you need to use it in such a scenario, you need a way to use Snapchat on your PC. In this article, we are going to give you a complete guide to use Snapchat on your PC....
With your PC, You may be listening to music in one window, sketching in paint in another, and transferring files to external devices in another window. You may want to keep an eye on the progress of all, and navigating between them frequently isn’t feasible. Thus, Microsoft has set this option in Windows 10 to help users multitask their works for better productivity. All you need to do is follow the instructions below to activate the Snap assist in your Windows 10, and have a better way to watch four windows at a time....
But, have you ever wondered that why some videos you marked as watch later got deleted. Don’t panic, as we have some methods to use to watch or recover the deleted YouTube videos easily. So, just make sure to read it till the end. Also Read- How To Watch Blocked YouTube Videos in Your Country List of Best Methods to Watch Deleted YouTube Videos Easily List of Best Methods to Watch Deleted YouTube Videos EasilyMethod 1: Download Videos From Archive....
Brown and five others were accused of stealing the PII of veterans, service members, and civilians at the Department of Defence, while Brown worked as a contractor. He, along with the co-conspirators, used that data to steal millions of dollars of victims. Identity Theft at Department of Defence Third-party contractors, if not properly monitored, may turn out fraud at times. Like we’ve seen in the case of Edward Snowden, here’s a case of Fredrick Brown....
India Officially Bans TikTok! The Indian government has reasoned this ban as these apps are ‘”engaged in activities which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of India, the security of the state and public order“. These apps are blamed for stealing and transferring the user data outside of India, where the nation doesn’t have the right to control it. The government also detailed that compilation of these data, mining, and profiling by elements can affect the national security and defense of India....
The platform added two new options, Favorites and Following, in its iOS client, letting users choose any of them to see the posts of their favorite or following accounts in chronological order. These two options come aside from the default algorithmic home feed. Chronological Home Feed in Instagram Last year when testifying before Congress, Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri said they’re testing a chronological home feed for their platform, which may offer users more control over when they see it....
The New Family Replacing the previous 9th Gen Coffee Lake-H series, Intel’s got a new family on 10th Gen as Comet Lake-H family, running on 14nm process and boasted for high performing NUCs. The new series consists of three processors, namely; Core i5, Core i7 and Core i9 with cores/thread configuration as 4/8, 6/12 and 8/16 respectively. Though Intel reported these Chips to clock speeds of more than 5GHz, it completely depends on the cooling and thermal venting design of notebook/PC....
The new solution, named FakeCatcher, uses Intel’s hardware and software in the PPG process to analyze the color signals of the blood flow – of a person involved in the video. It’ll then result in the video as true or false based on these checks. A Real-Time Deepfake Detector While we all know Intel for crucial chips in electronics, the company is working widely in the technology industry. And one among them is countering the problem with deepfakes, where one can try morphing a video of someone doing something using AI....
The report was written by Facebook’s Privacy engineers last year, where they stated that Facebook’s policies force them to combine the sensitive data first-party data and third-party data into one, making it harder to retrieve the specific one later. Also, they warned that Facebook with these policies may face challenges with growing data regulations around the world. A Facebook spokesperson denied these allegations. Improper Handling of User Data Facebook is already tangled with a number of controversies around safeguarding user data....
The company decided to end sharing the data collected from its services to all its partners, except Allstate Arity and Placer.ai, which are deemed critical for Life360 to function. Instead, the company will now share the aggregated data with its partners. Cease to Share Location Data Life360, the company that lets people legally track their partners and kids through its app, has now made a big decision. On Friday, the platform announced plans to cease selling the precise location data with its partners, except Allstate Arity and Placer....
