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The firm will pay $520 million for privacy and deception cases.
Epic Games has agreed to pay $520 million to US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to settle charges that it tricked Fortnite players into making unwanted charges. The FTC claimed Epic charged players for items that were unwanted in the game during the first half of the year. However, Epic said it had an agreement with…
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A second Iranian man is put to death over a protest crime.
Iran’s authorities have said that several people have been executed in connection with anti-government protests in the country. The executions came after a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini died in police custody last month after being arrested for not wearing her hijab properly. Several other people have also been sentenced to death for participating in…
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Since the killing of al Qaeda’s leader, top US officials have met with the Taliban.
The US State Department said that no Afghan or Afghans want to return to an Afghanistan “that lacks opportunity, that lacks security, and certainly lacks prosperity”. This comes after CNN reported that an American reporter and his Afghan producer were arrested in Kabul this year while in Afghanistan. “No Afghan or Afghans want to return…
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Musk was turned into a Trump phenomenon.
Amid a controversy over Twitter’s policies, a report has claimed the micro-blogging platform would not be able to enforce Elon Musk’s new policies announced this week. Davisson said Twitter has gutted its moderation staff and will not be able to enforce Musk’s new policies in a way that covers all users. This comes after Musk…
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It is your phone that is TikTok’s greatest asset.
Social media platforms like YouTube and Instagram have become “metamorphosis” of their users’ “unmediated inner self”, a study has claimed. The transition from cinema to TV made moving images into our homes, it added. The study claims viewers started to develop a social relationship with the people they saw on the screen.
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It was not the reason for the ban.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said that he plans to introduce an option to allow users to determine if the company has limited how many other users can view their posts. Users would also be able to determine if Twitter has suspended or banned their accounts. Earlier, Twitter had said it will offer “general amnesty”…
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2 were hurt by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Northern California.
A magnitude-4.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California on Tuesday morning, the US Geological Survey said. It was followed by over two dozen smaller aftershocks, including one with a magnitude of 4.7, the USGS added. Two people were injured in the earthquake and were being treated for injuries, the Humboldt County sheriff’s office…
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A chaotic day brings the micro-messaging service closer to failure.
Activist Angelo Carusone, President of Media Matters for America, said Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk’s view of the social media platform will be “a keyhole view of what Twitter under Musk will look like”. “Look at alternative platforms such as Parler, Gab and Truth Social that promise fewer restrictions on speech,” he added. Carusone’s comments…
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CNN, WaPo and NYT were banned by Musk without explanation.
Twitter has deleted an account that shared the flight-tracking information of Elon Musk’s private jet, hours after he had removed it. The account, ‘elonjet flight-tracking’, was created by a 19-year-old college student named Jack Sweeney who claimed to be working on his Master’s degree. He threatened to take legal action against the student and “organisations…
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Terry Hall was a singer for ska icons The Specials.
US-based singer Terry Hall, known for songs like ‘Ghost Town’ and ‘The Specials’, passed away on Saturday at the age of 57. “His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life…the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but most the love,” the band said. “Terry was a great singer and…
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The Los Angeles jury is weighing in on Harvey Weinstein’s second sexual assault trial.
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape andcible sexual assault in Los Angeles on Monday. He was also found guilty of two counts of violating a woman’s privacy by making her perform oral sex on him. Weinstein has been charged with rape and sexual battery of a woman in 2005, sexual assault…
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The press has been censured by Musk.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said the new CEO of Twitter “must like pain a lot” to run a company that “has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy”. He further said that someone with Musk’s knowledge and experience would be a good choice for Twitter CEO. Earlier, Musk had said he would reverse the…
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Exactly, what is this blue thing on the social networking site?
Twitter has delayed the rollout of account verifications for its monthly subscription plan ‘Twitter Blue’ until after the US midterm elections, a report said. Earlier, the company had launched an iOS app for ‘Blue’ subscribers that will let users get a blue checkmark on their profile. ” tweets from verified users will be prioritised…helping to…
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The Los Angeles sexual assault trial will feature a witness who will testify for Weinstein.
The trial of Harvey Weinstein, who’s accused of raping a woman and sexually assaulting another woman in 2004, began in Los Angeles on Monday. The Hollywood producer faces 60 years to life in prison, plus an additional five years if the jury finds him guilty. He is already serving a 23-year sentence for a New…
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Republican-led states tried to keep Trump’s border policy in place.
The US Department of Homeland Security is preparing temporary facilities to process migrants amid an increase in migrant arrivals at the border, officials said. The department is discussing ways to return non-Mexican migrants to Mexico through existing legal mechanisms aside from Title 42, officials added. Earlier, a US judge had ordered the administration to stop…
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How to “Quiet quit” on social media.
After advertisers called for a boycott of Twitter, the head of liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America Angelo Carusone said, “For akeyhole view of what Twitter under Musk will look like, just look at alternative platforms like Parler, Gab and Truth Social that promise fewer restrictions on speech.” This comes after Tesla CEO Elon…
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The FTC settled with the maker of ‘Fortnite’ for $520 million.
Epic Games will pay over $500 million to settle FTC’s complaints of children’s privacy and methods which tricked players into making purchases. The FTC said the default settings of the game tricked users including teenagers and children. The FTC added that Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based…
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There is a sale on AirPods Pro 2 at Amazon.
Amazon is discounting the $129 Apple Watch Series 4 by $100 to its lowest price in history. The smartwatch is available at $199.99 for $199.99 at Amazon and from Mobvoi. The discounted price lowers the price of the Apple WATCH to a new all-time low and is a great value for anyone who wants activity…
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Section 230 challenges will be heard by the Supreme Court.
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has said that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act “provides substantial protection to websites and digital platforms” from censorship. This comes after the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, in its ruling, said that Section 230 doesn’t allow companies to remove “objectionable” content from their sites.
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Several journalists have their suspension lifted by the site, in spite of a rift between it and the media.
Twitter has told a US court that its own data scientists showed that Elon Musk’s own data scientists confirmed Twitter’s estimates on how many human users versus spam accounts are on the platform. Musk had accused Twitter of fraud in an August legal filing, claims that there were more bots on the platform than the…
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There were fatal missile strikes that hit Kyiv, as explosions were reported in other cities.
At least five people have been killed and more than 100 others have been injured in Russian missile attacks on Kyiv, Ukrainian State Emergency Service (SES) has said. Russian forces launched 15 missiles at several parts of Kyiv on Monday, it added. At least 18 people have been killed in the Russian missile attacks on…
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The death debate in ‘Titanic’ will be put to rest in a new special.
‘Titanic’ director James Cameron has said he commissioned a scientific study to put the debate over Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio’s character)’s death at the conclusion of the film “to rest and drive a stake through its heart once and for all”. He added, “The script says Jack dies, he has to die.” He further said that…
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After their Pandemic debut, mRNA vaccines are just getting started.
Drew Weissman, who is credited with developing the platform that made the life-saving mRNA vaccines possible, believes that it was a long time coming. “There’s no need to spend more than $100 million on research for a new treatment,” Weissman said. “We can use the RNA platform we’ve already developed and easily plug in different…
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The top court in the United Kingdom upheld a controversial plan to send migrants to Rwanda.
The UK’s High Court on Monday ruled that a plan to deport asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was lawful. The UK had introduced the plan in June last year, following which the European Court of Human rights had issued a last-minute order stopping the deportations. However, the court found that the plan could…
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It’s not an A+ student even though a new artificial intelligence chatbot can do your homework for you.
US-based AI startup Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence said its artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT can write essays and solve math problems, but it may generate inaccurate information. Users experimenting with the free preview of the chatbot are warned that ChatGPT “may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information,” harmful instructions or biased content.