Category: Internet

YouTube Shorts are a new feature on the video-sharing site meant to compete with TikTok YouTube Shorts—the video-sharing website’s quick clips meant to compete with TikTok—are racking up 3.5 billion views a day during beta testing in India, the platform’s head said Tuesday. Susan Wojcikci explained the feature in a note laying out her 2021 […]

A network visualisation showing some of the abusive terms, often coded, shared about Kamala Harris between September and November 2020. Credit: Wilson Center Malign Creativity Report As Vice President Kamala Harris settles into her first full week in the White House, thousands are heading online to celebrate her groundbreaking achievement. Unfortunately, thousands more are flooding […]

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Google says it’s making progress on plans to revamp Chrome user tracking technology aimed at improving privacy even as it faces challenges from regulators and officials. The company gave an update Monday on its work to remove from its Chrome browser so-called third-party cookies, which are used by a website’s advertisers […]

Mel Silva, right, the managing director of Google Australia and New Zealand, appears via a video link during a Senate inquiry into a mandatory code of conduct proposed by the government at Parliament House in Canberra, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Google on Friday threatened to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government […]

Loon, an Alphabet project aiming to provide wireless internet via high-flying balloons, is being closed down Google parent company Alphabet announced Friday it was shutting down “Loon”, a high-profile project aiming to deliver wireless internet via flying balloons in the stratosphere, because it is not commercially viable. The idea behind Loon was to build a […]

The dark web isn’t a hangout for only criminals, a lot of journalists and political activists use it to safeguard their anonymity. Credit: Shutterstock The dark web began as an anonymous communication channel for the US government but is now a term used by the media and in Hollywood movies to refer to hidden online […]

In this Monday, Nov. 18, 2019 file photo, the logo of Google is displayed on a carpet at the entrance hall of Google France in Paris. After months of talks, Google France and the Alliance de la Presse d’Information Generale said Thursday Jan. 21, 2021, paving the way for the internet giant to make digital […]

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In what might be the first salvo against the decades-long dominance of the HTTP protocol for internet data retrieval, an open source web browser devoted to privacy has introduced an option that allows for direct peer-to-peer transfers. This means that instead of relying on a massive network in which data are […]

India is WhatsApp’s biggest market, with more than 400 million users India’s government Tuesday called on WhatsApp to withdraw planned changes to its data-sharing policy, citing concerns about users’ privacy and security. The plans concern how merchants using the messenger to chat with customers can share data with the app’s owner Facebook, which could use […]

Apple’s Tim Cook leaves open the possibility that Parler, with changes to its moderation policy, could return to the App Store Parler, the social network popular among conservatives, could return to Apple’s App Store if it changes how it moderates posts on the platform, the tech giant’s CEO Tim Cook said Sunday. Apple suspended all […]