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Top officials from Facebook Inc , Alphabet Inc's Google and Twitter Inc will appear before U.S. lawmakers on Thursday at a hearing on foreign influence and election security, the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee announced. The remote hearing will discuss the technology industry's actions since the 2016 U.S. elections, state-sponsored disinformation efforts, and other related issues as the country moves toward the Nov. 3 presidential contest, the panel said. The hearing will also look at misinformation campaigns amid the novel coronavirus outbreak and recent protests over racism and policing. The witnesses include Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of security policy; Nick Pickles, director of Global Public Policy Strategy and Development at Twitter, and Richard Salgado, director for Law Enforcement and Information Security at Google. The hearing comes as Americans are increasingly skeptical about social media companies' ability to make the right decisions about … [Read more...] about US House panel to hold election-security hearing with Facebook, Google, Twitter

The tweet also contains a puzzle-like image that gives a glimpse of all the products that the company is about to launch. Carefully looking at the image, we found the hidden camera module of a smartphone in the top half portion of the second ‘2’. The second half of the second 2 has a notch like structure which by its design suggests it could be a speaker. Also, the first half of the first ‘2’ contains a weak structure that suggests the Xiaomi bike. Other products are easy to guess, the orange band on the top and bottom of the first ‘0’ looks like the fitness band and we are assuming it to be the Mi Band 5 or successor to that. The last ‘0’, however, suggests the new Xiaomi TV, which is yet to launch in the global market yet. Also, the left portion of the second ‘0’ has a cut out with HDMI like structure to it, which means, Xiaomi might launch the Mi TV Stick dongle globally. … [Read more...] about Xiaomi confirms global launch event for July 15

Facebook launched an “avatar” feature in the US recently, which allows its users to create a cartoon version of themselves and use it as a replacement to the standard smiley stickers. You can use your custom emojis in Facebook posts, as your profile picture and even when you use Facebook Messenger. Now, this feature will eventually find its way to more regions, but you don’t have to wait for it because there are apps that already let you do the same thing and even allow you to use them in other messengers like WhatsApp, Snapchat and Telegram... Bitmoji This is one of the most popular apps—now owned by the creators of Snapchat messenger—that allows you to create a personalised caricature yourself to use on your social networks and messaging apps. First, you need to register via the app. This allows you to save your creations online and access them even when you change handsets. Bitmoji lets you choose between three cartoon styles: Classic, Bitstrips and … [Read more...] about Make your avatars with these cool emoji apps

Eric Schmidt—erstwhile Google CEO and current chairman of US’ Defence Innovation Advisory Board—in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, has predicted that “every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites”. Indeed, if we take time to research ourselves on the Internet, most of us will be surprised by how much personal information we’ve posted online. Our Facebook posts disclose who our friends are, what we ‘Like’, and our relationship status. The photos in which we are tagged reveal what we’ve done and who we’ve done it with. Our tweets broadcast our opinions and our allegiances. Our Instagram photos provide an insight into the type of people we are, our favourite places to hang out, where we went on holidays. Our LinkedIn profiles display our professional history... This … [Read more...] about How to clean up your digital footprint

Uber: The ride-hailing company shared a tweet from CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Sunday saying  "@Uber stands in solidarity with the Black community and with peaceful protests against the injustice and racism that have plagued our nation for too long. My hope is that if each of us recommits to doing all we can to counter bigotry wherever we see it, change will follow." … [Read more...] about Further tech giants pledge funds, voice to fight racial injustice