Following reports that 530 million Facebook users had their information publicised, the social media platform has said that the data leak was a result of “scraping” rather than a hack of its system. The social media giant said that malicious actors obtained the data by scraping it from the platform before September 2019.
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Google’s use of Oracle software to build an android operating system did not break copyright law. The decision overturned a previous court ruling that claimed the company’s use of Oracle software code violated the legislation.
Tesla stocks surged by almost 8 per cent on Monday, which could see its market value increase by $50 billion, after the electric vehicle company published its quarter one sales. Tesla said that it produced more than 180,000 vehicles and delivered nearly 185,000 vehicles in the time period.
The NHS it is rolling out an injection that cuts the amount of time breast cancer patients spend in hospital from two and a half hours to around five minutes.
US president Joe Biden has called out Amazon for not paying federal taxes. At an address in Pittsburgh, Biden talked about increasing taxes on multinational companies and raising corporate tax rates.
Technology giant Microsoft has won a contract providing augmented reality headsets for the United States Army. The deal is worth $21.9 billion over 10 years, a Microsoft spokesperson told Reuters.
Brazil’s central bank, Banco Central do Brasil (BCB), has licensed the use of WhatsApp for initiating fund transfers. WhatsApp attempted to launch the transfer service last June, but the bank said that licencing the service could negatively impact the country’s existing payments system.
72 per cent of workers in Britain are interested in learning digital skills to help with digital transformation needs driven by covid-19 and Brexit, according to research which surveyed 250 full time UK employees.
Deliveroo shares declined by 30 per cent in the company’s London debut on Wednesday, with the sharp drop cutting company value by £2 billion. The disappointing listing comes days after several important investors decided to shun the offering.
Google Maps is using insights from the US Department of Energy to build a new routing model that aims to choose routes with lower fuel consumption. The app will use factors like road incline and traffic congestion to help identify the most eco-friendly route.
AI-powered technology that can detect ‘invisible’ risk in people with possible heart disease has been given the go-ahead to be used by doctors across the UK and Europe, and can now be rolled out across the NHS.
Social media giant Facebook has been ranked Europe’s most popular technology brand. A study by RebootOnline.com analysed annual search volumes for each of the 20 most valuable technology brands and divided by the quantity of years since they were founded in order to establish a standardised annual search volume for each company.
Facebook is planning to connect Singapore, Indonesia, and the US via two undersea cables, in a project with Google and several telecommunications companies. The move, first revealed by Reuters, aims to help improve internet connection capability between North America and Southeast Asia.