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AFP, Published on 24/02/2023
» SYDNEY: Facebook and Instagram began a week-long rollout of their first paid verification service on Friday, testing users' willingness to pay for social media features that until now have been free.
AFP, Published on 27/10/2020
» SAN FRANCISCO: As Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg prepares to be grilled by a Senate committee about the handling of politically-charged posts, content moderators are insisting that properly valuing their work is key.
AFP, Published on 30/11/2016
» BAGHDAD - The Mosul battle in Iraq has seen the Islamic State group increasingly resort to weaponised drones, which Western governments fear could lead to a new type of attack at home.
AFP, Published on 15/11/2016
» LONDON - Britain's interior minister on Monday ordered the extradition to the United States of a man accused of hacking into thousands of US government computers.
AFP, Published on 07/10/2016
» MIAMI - From a special storm website created by a US military agency to a state's interactive map of evacuation routes, the authorities are mobilizing digital tools to help millions of people cope with the devastating passage of Hurricane Matthew.
AFP, Published on 23/06/2016
» WASHINGTON - The US military is wary of cutting Internet connections to Islamic State strongholds such as Raqa in Syria, even though the Pentagon is waging cyber-war against the jihadists, officials said Wednesday.
AFP, Published on 02/02/2016
» NANTERRE (FRANCE) - The children of slain Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi will try to convince a French court Wednesday that the wildly popular video game "Call of Duty" defamed their father by representing him as a "barbarian".
AFP, Published on 23/12/2015
» PRAGUE - Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka's Twitter account fell prey Wednesday to hackers who swamped it with violently anti-immigrant messages.
AFP, Published on 10/12/2015
» DHAKA - Bangladesh on Thursday lifted a ban on Facebook, three weeks after it was imposed for security reasons in the tense country, but mobile messaging apps remained barred, the telecoms minister said.
AFP, Published on 21/10/2015
» WASHINGTON - Vice Media's website went dark Wednesday to protest the detention in Turkey of one of its journalists reporting on anti-government unrest in the Kurdish-dominated southeast.