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BII As headlines like “Amazon Is Secretly Becoming a Bank” and “Google Wants to Be a Bank Now” increasingly crop up in the news, tech giants are coming into the spotlight as the next potential payments disruptors. And with these firms’ broad reach and hefty resources, the possibility that they’ll descend on financial services is a hard narrative to […]
Twitter, Facebook and Google had a hard time providing evidence of “Russian meddling” on social media, transcripts from the US Senate show. However, they did shockingly reveal that RT America had purchased ads aimed at Americans. On Friday, the US Senate Intelligence Committee released answers provided by Twitter, Facebook and Google in response to questions […]
Stephen Lam/Reuters Facebook and Google face bigger regulatory risks than Amazon, according to David Eiswert, the portfolio manager of T. Rowe Price’s Global Stock Fund. Top lawyers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google appeared in Congress in November to answer questions about Russia’s meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. Facebook’s advertising platform is “like a […]
Facebook, Google and Twitter are taking action against RT in response to pressure from the Senate Intelligence Committee, but have found very little to indicate ‘Russian meddling’ in the 2016 elections, new documents show. Google Search, for example, has labels “describing RT’s relationship with the Russian Government” and the company is “working on disclosures to […]
It’s been an incredible decade for graphic novel adaptations, and an even better one for coming-of-age films. I Kill Giants offers the best of both, adapting the critically-acclaimed Image Comics series from Joe Kelly and J. M. Ken Niimura, which was released in 2008. The film follows a troubled young girl who escapes from her family and school conflicts by […]
THE NSW Swifts and Giants will limber up for the Super Netball season with matches against an England side hoping to pull off a major netball sting at the Commonwealth Games. Two days of pre-season matches will be played on March 17 and 18 to prepare the NSW teams and West Coast Fever for the […]
Unless you live under a rock, you probably saw headlines this week about a war between Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. So what’s the takeaway? Alexa in personal computers and AR glasses may be a bit surprising, but the CES 2018 theme seemed to be the […]
The UK still isn’t convinced that internet giants are doing enough to curb online extremism, and it’s now considering hitting those companies where it really hurts: their bank accounts. In an interview with the Sunday Times, security minister Ben Wallace said the country should use taxes to either incentivize stronger anti-extremist efforts or compensate for […]
A saying often heard from companies like Google and Microsoft is that they want to democratize AI. That’s a nice word, democratize — it’s got “democracy” in it — but it’s unclear how these companies define democratization, and, like AI, it has an air of hype to it. Democratization in almost every context means delivering […]
Matt Ludtke/AP The New York Giants suspended second-year cornerback Eli Apple for conduct detrimental to the team after he reportedly got into a confrontation with coaches. The confrontation came after safety Landon Collins called Apple a “cancer” during a radio interview. One report said Apple, who has struggled this year, will not be on the […]
