Science and Technology

ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) Facebook Inc’s Instagram is working on building a new standalone shopping app, from which users can browse through goods and buy them directly.It was not clear when the app would be launched, the report said.Instagram believes it is well positioned to make a major expansion into e-commerce, …

PARIS (Web Desk) Facebook said Wednesday it is rolling out globally its Watch video service, which has already been available in the United States for more than a year.We designed the product not just in a mindless consumption but in order to get people engaged,” said Fidji Simo, Facebook’s vice …

WASHINGTON (Web Desk) Creators of fake accounts and news pages on Facebook are learning from their past mistakes and making themselves harder to track and identify, posing new challenges in preventing the platform from being used for political misinformation, cybersecurity experts say.This was apparent as Facebook tried to determine who …

LONDON (Web Desk) Facebook said on Tuesday it had identified a new coordinated political influence campaign to mislead its users and sow dissension among voters ahead of November’s US congressional elections.It said it had removed 32 pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram, part of an effort to combat foreign meddling …

UK (Web Desk) Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took a more than $15 billion hit on Thursday, as the social media company suffered the biggest one-day wipeout in US stock market history a day after executives forecast years of lower profit margins.At least 16 brokerages cut their price targets …

LONDON (Web Desk) Facebook said on Monday it would double its presence in London, acquiring nearly 600,000 square feet (56,000 square meters) of office space across two buildings in King’s Cross enough for more than 6,000 workstations.The social network did not say how many jobs it would add in the …

Jerusalem (Web Desk) The Israeli government is likely to pass a bill which seeks to force Facebook and other social media platforms to do away with content the government views as incitement, Bloomberg reported on Monday. According to the article, in the backdrop of free-speech concerns, Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet …

Washington (Web Desk) Microsoft Corp on Friday called for government regulation of facial recognition technology and for laws governing its acceptable uses. “We believe Congress should create a bipartisan expert commission to assess the best way to regulate the use of facial recognition technology in the United States,” Microsoft President …

Washington (Web Desk) Twitter Inc suspended more than one million accounts a day in recent months to reduce the flow of misinformation on the platform, the Washington Post reported. Twitter and other social media platforms such as Facebook Inc have been under scrutiny by U.S. lawmakers and international regulators for …

Iblagh (Web Desk) This Woman Reads 100 Books In A Month (And How You Can Too) Last month, Therese embarked on a challenge to read 100 nonfiction titles with the Blinkist app. Here’s how she did. by Sandra Wu | Apr 20 2018 6K SHARES Meet Therese, she’s a business …