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Twitter takes steps to remove manipulated media

U.S. social media company Twitter Inc. said Tuesday it would enforce a new rule to remove manipulated media starting next month. Twitter's Head of Site Integrity Yoel Roth said users should not dece

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China maintains supply of mobile phone service, power, gas for battle against epidemic

China will maintain mobile phone services and power and gas supplies for people with overdue bills during the novel coronavirus control period, according to the State-

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Iran and Israel suspected of exploiting Twitter security flaw

The company has declined to say how many user phone numbers had been exposed, because it could not identify all the accounts.

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Starbucks store sales grow 3 pct in China in fiscal 2020 first quarter

A Starbucks logo is pictured in Manhattan, New York, the United States. (Xinhua/Li Muzi) U.S. top coffee chain Starbucks Corporation said Tuesday that its business in China is growing steadily as i

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Magnitude 7.7 earthquake in the Caribbean Sea, northwest of Jamaica

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake has struck south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).It was centered 117 kilometers (73 miles) northwest of Lucea,

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U.S. mobile app subscription revenue jumped 21% in 2019 to $4.6B across the top 100 apps

Outside of in-app purchases in mobile games, subscription revenue from non-game apps helped to boost 2019’s mobile consumer spend — a figure that reached $120 billion globally last year, a

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India likely to force Facebook, WhatsApp to identify the originator of messages

New Delhi is inching closer to recommend regulations that would require social media companies and instant messaging app providers operating in the nation to help law enforcement agencies identify use

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Adblock Plus’s Till Faida on the shifting shape of ad blocking

Publishers hate ad blockers, but millions of internet users embrace them — and many browsers even bake it in as a feature, including Google’s own Chrome. At the same time, growing numbers of pub

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Google finally brings its security key feature to iPhones

More than half a year after Google said Android phones could be used as a security key, the feature is coming to iPhones.Google said it’ll bring the feature to iPhones in an effort to give at-ri

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China launches sub-meter class remote sensing satellite into space

CCTV Photo China successfully launched a sub-meter-class remote sensing satellite, Jilin-1, into space on a long march-2D carrier rocket from the Taiyuan satellite launch center in the norther

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China releases downloadable global surface solar radiation dataset

A Chinese research institute released a 34-year dataset of the global surface solar radiation, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Monday.The dataset, which provides data on the

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Building long-tail success after a breakout game

For many gamers, Pokémon GO was an exciting fad that ate up their summer and was just another chapter in a franchise. A lot of these people would already treat the game like some sort of nostalgic mid

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China launches online service for disabled to apply certificates, subsidies

The official Wechat account of the State Council announced Monday its new online service, which enables disabled individuals to apply for disability certificates and s

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SpaceX rocket launches 3rd batch of 60 internet satellites into space

The U.S. private space company SpaceX launched its third batch of 60 Starlink satellites into space on Monday, in an effort to build a 12,000-strong or even more satellite network capable of providin

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How to cancel app subscriptions

Appsubscriptionsareeasytostart,butnotalwaysquitesoeasytostop.Howexactlycanuserscanceltheirsubscriptiontoanapp?IntheGooglePlayStore,userscansimplyclickon“Account

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Facebook facial recognition faces class-action suit

Facebookmustfaceaclassactionlawsuitoveritsuseoffacialrecognitiontechnology,aCaliforniajudgehasruled.ThelawsuitallegesthatFacebookgatheredbiometricinformationwit

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Facebook takes out ads to tout new EU data protection law

Facebooktookoutfull-pageadsinEuropeannewspapersMondaytotrumpettoughnewEUlegislationthatpromises"moredataprotectionforyou",asthecompanyseekstowinbacktrustfollowi