Russia's communications watchdog, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) accused Google's YouTube video-sharing platform, which has shut out Russian state-funded...
The European Commission announced another round of consultation on the launch of digital euro, the EU's central bank digital currency (CBDC). Consultations would aim on comments and considerations of payment industry specialists, ...
A global coalition of 17 tech and business groups called upon the G7 leaders to leverage free data flows among other substantial digital priorities, promote the digital economy, and address climate change to accelerate the global ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and several US state governments requested a District Court of Columbia to deny Facebook's petition to dismiss antitrust lawsuits against the company. The FTC has insisted that Facebook's move to...
Technology giants pay 76% lower taxes on profit than other companies in Brazil, points out a survey based on data from the Federal Revenue Service. The research was led by the Federal Deputy Jo?o Maia. The study concludes that com...
Twitch, a live-stream platform popular among video gamers, announced it will start a new approach to moderate content by banning users for offenses such as hate-group memberships or mass violence that occur entirely outside of its...
Facebook has expanded its Coronavirus information centre initially launched in South Africa to several other countries in Africa. According to a news report, the information centres form part of several mechanisms Facebook is putt...
Facebook made updates to memorialised accounts by: adding a new tributes section, providing additional controls to designated legacy contacts, and using improved artificial intelligence (AI) technology to keep the profile of a dec...
The Web of Things Working Group of W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) issued two new recommendations for web integration across Internet of things (IoT) platforms and applications. The recommendations' aim to deal with the fragmentat...
The Public Interest Registry (PIR) and Ethos Capital have announced updates to the proposed Public Interest Commitments (PICs) for .org. The PICs are to be added to the .org Registry Agreement in the event that the Internet Corpor...
Non-profit policy think tank RAND Corporation has published a report on 'Securing Communications in the Quantum Computing Age', exploring the risks that future quantum computers could pose to current digital encryption systems use...
In line with the UN secretary general's initiative to help member states address the COVID-19 crisis, the UN Inter-agency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) launched a call...