Meta AI resolves background noise issues with AV-HuBERT
Facebook’s parent company Meta may resolve the greatest hurdle in speech recognition platforms: background noise. The firm integrated visual cues examination to filter out external chatter in its speech recognition platform.
Background noise has been a great problem in contemporary speech reco...
French privacy regulator to fine Google, Facebook 210 million Euros
The fine is because they failed to allow French users to easily reject cookie tracking technology.
Google and Facebook parent company Meta Platforms are facing another big fine after France’s data watchdog found them guilty of violating European Union privacy rules. According to a report in PO...
EC defends Ireland’s tech watchdog as criticism mounts
The Commission rushes to the rescue of the beleaguered Irish privacy regulator.
Amid mounting criticism of Ireland’s privacy watchdog, top European Commission official Didier Reynders has come to Dublin’s defense. He is rejecting calls to penalize the country over claims it has failed to up...
Big tech companies added $2.5 trillion in value to 2021
Big Tech pushed US stocks to the third straight winning year in 2021. Giants like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and others, continue to experience demand, even as the economy slogs on to the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The most notable names, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Amazon, Mi...
Facebook awaiting EU antitrust approval to acquire Kustomer
Kustomer offers CRM solutions that help businesses communicate with consumers easily via emails, calls, and even Whatsapp
Facebook announced a deal with Kustomer in November 2020, stating that it will help them scale up Whatsapp, which has seen a rise in post-pandemic usage. On the other hand, t...
Meta Platforms Inc. expands its Bug Bounty program
Meta is expanding its bug bounty program to find more vulnerabilities and create a backup plan to tackle them
Meta Platforms announces an enhancement in its existing bug bounty program. This enhancement introduces data scraping, making it the first bug bounty program that offers this functionali...
Ireland’s decision about Facebook sparks argument about limits of GDPR
EU officials are getting ready to fight regarding how much control companies should have over the processing of personal data after a decision targeting Facebook came out of Ireland’s privacy regulator, triggering pushback from campaigners.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said last week...
Facebook intends to hire 10,000 EU citizens to create its ‘metaverse’
Facebook has announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union over the next half-decade. The social media giant announced the plan on Monday, which intends to build what the company is calling a metaverse.
The concept refers to a nascent online world that facilitates communications in...
European Commission investigates Facebook’s Kustomer acquisition
The European Commission has started an investigation into a Facebook acquisition that may potentially hurt the competition. The acquisition in question concerns a customer service company called Kustomer.
Facebook bought the company in December for a little over $1 billion.
Kustomer was found...
EU lawmaker’s proposals for tougher tech laws in the bloc gets backing
A pivotal EU lawmaker in the European Parliament leading the debate on stricter rules aimed at tech giants (Facebook, Google, Amazon) and other similar platforms, now has the backing to tighten the bloc's citizens' fundamental rights in the draft rules.
The Digital Services Act, which was propos...
Facebook’s newsletter platform Bulletin is now operational
Mark Zuckerberg has taken to making announcements about products in live audio rooms. On Tuesday, he used his Clubhouse competitor to announce the next new thing on Facebook, a newsletter platform known as Bulletin.
Bulletin is built on a separate platform from Facebook. The website made for it ...
EU Court leaves tech giants more exposed to privacy challenges
The European Union backs the sanctions set by national privacy watchdogs on Facebook, Google, and Twitter. These corporations will now be answerable about their privacy legislation to the EU authorities.
Silicon Valley giants are all set to face more scrutiny, and strict sanctions after the EU's...