August 11, 2021 Twitter has finally found an answer to a technical problem discovered by the platform's research team: the "saliency algorithm," which decides how images in Twitter previews are cropped before they are clicked in full size. more...
August 11, 2021 Google employees who worked in the same office before the pandemic could see different pay changes if they switch to working from home permanently, which would hit long commuters harder, according to a company pay more...
August 11, 2021 BitMEX has agreed to pay up to $100 million to settle charges in the U.S. for unlawfully accepting customer funds for trading in cryptocurrencies when the company was not registered to do so, and for more...
August 10, 2021 U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan raised concerns about Huawei equipment on Brazil's 5G telecommunications network during a visit to Brazil last week, a White House official said Monday. Juan González, Senior Director of the more...
August 10, 2021 AMC will begin accepting bitcoin as a means of payment for customers who want to pay for movie tickets and concessions with the cryptocurrency by the end of 2021. CEO Adam Aron made the announcement more...
August 10, 2021 Rust and Clojure top the list of programming languages that developers love. Stack Overflow published the results of its Developer Survey 2021, which highlighted a number of impressions and economic information, including developers' attitudes toward more...
August 9, 2021 Facebook drew scathing criticism from The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for claiming that a consent decree issued by the organization was the reason it had to shut down New York University's Ad Observatory. The social more...
August 9, 2021 Gartner predicts that the global market for 5G network infrastructure will grow 39% in 2021, with estimated revenues of $19.1 billion, surpassing the $13.7 billion for 2020. Michael Porowski, Senior Principal Research Analyst at Gartner, more...
August 9, 2021 At Samsung's Unpacked event in August, the Korean tech giant is expected to heavily promote foldable phones, which the company will focus on in the coming years. Samsung will have to deliver a refined foldable more...
August 9, 2021 Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies suffered the biggest-ever drop in revenue in the first half of 2021 after U.S. sanctions forced it to sell a significant part of its once-robust handset business and before new more...
August 6, 2021 Twitter has introduced a new feature called "co-hosting," which allows Spaces hosts to invite other people to help them moderate. This means that from now on, a single room can include one host, two co-hosts more...
August 6, 2021 Programming language C and Python are at the top of TIOBE's monthly index of leading programming languages. The latest index for August shows a bottleneck at the top, as other programming languages surge ahead. C more...