SOCIAL NETWORKS: By April, all Twitter users will be able to create voice rooms called spaces and join others on the social network. Twitter has just updated its application on iOS. And by consulting the new features of this new version, users were able to discover Spaces, reports The Verge relayed by 01net . This new service will allow users to create live […]
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PERSONAL DATA: Google plans to delete third-party cookies and therefore to eliminate ultra-personalized advertising Regularly criticized for its tracking practices, Google is trying to improve its image by offering a user experience that is more respectful of privacy. This is how the Mountain View firm has just announced that it will no longer develop new tools to […]
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SOCIAL NETWORKS: About two million users visit Clubhouse every week Facebook has embarked on the design of audio chat rooms on the model of the Clubhouse application, already copied by Twitter. The Clubhouse platform, launched last spring, is only available on Apple-branded devices and by invitation but is already visited by some two million users every week. They have access to […]
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MONEY: Some employees fear that the use of cryptocurrency may serve illegal activities First in the number of downloads from the Apple Store, Signal is currently developing cryptocurrency payment solutions, Clubic reports. Experiments based on MobileCoin (MOB) are underway. It is a cryptocurrency built on the Stellar blockchain, designed to make payments simple, secure and potentially impossible to trace can we read on Platformer. […]
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PRIVATE LIFE: Secure messaging app, Signal, tops downloads on Apple Store and Google Play platforms in several countries The secure messaging application is booming! Since its competitor WhatsApp warned Thursday that it would share more data with its parent company Facebook, Signal has been at the top of downloads on the Apple Store and Google Play platforms in several countries. […]
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WhatsApp will require its users to share their data with entities of the Facebook group. Me Merav Griguer, lawyer and teacher at Sciences-Po and Assas, deciphers the main issues of this regulatory change for users Whatsapp messaging usage data will be collected and shared from February 8th by the parent company Facebook. This decision, announced Thursday […]
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Twitter has hidden a post from Iran’s Supreme Leader after he promoted a coronavirus vaccine conspiracy theory, claiming his country could not trust British and American jabs. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed vaccines imported from the UK and the US were ‘completely untrustworthy’ because it was ‘not unlikely’ the countries ‘would want to contaminate other nations’. […]
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CYBER CRIME: Many Dark Web platforms are now selling so-called coronavirus vaccine vials at exorbitant prices Since November, crooks and dealers have been selling fake doses of coronavirus Covid-19 vaccines on the Dark Web. “Transactions are made in bitcoin on platforms, marketplaces (online market), a bit like eBay or Amazon”, explains Gérome Billois, a cybersecurity expert at Wavestone. […]
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STREAMING: Amazon has paid more than 300 million dollars for the purchase of Wondery to launch podcast market After weeks of negotiations, that’s it, podcast publisher Wondery has just gone under the Amazon flag. A strategic takeover for Jeff Bezos’ group since the takeover of Wondery will allow Amazon Music, Amazon’s music streaming service, to offer more original podcasts […]
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HIGH-SPEED: European high-speed internet could emerge in the late 2020s with the development of the Internet by Satellite After developing its own satellite positioning system – Galileo – Europe wants to free itself from foreign satellites by setting up its own network in order to guarantee its digital sovereignty. In this way, the European Union could offer high-speed Internet […]
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