A SENIOR EU official overseeing digital policy has warned tech giants such as Twitter, Facebook or the Facebook owned Instagram and WhatsApp could face fines if they fail to reverse their platforms’ slide towards cavernous cesspools of knuckle dragging hate and bile, WWN can reveal. With curbing disinformation and hate speech at the top of… Read more »
GOOGLE has unveiled a helpful tool that will bring an end to the laborious and onerous task typing search terms, general queries and websites into its search engines. The tech giant’s new Auto-Thought feature which was installed earlier today has transformed everyone’s phones, laptops and tablet devices by allowing the transposing of people’s thoughts directly… Read more »
A LANDMARK day for Ireland Inc after the government proudly welcomed the news that the entirety of our the Nation’s capital city, Dublin, will be nothing but Facebook offices and staff by 2022, WWN Business can report. The tech giant has confirmed its intention to hire 5,000 more staff and move its Dublin operations to… Read more »
Are you angry at the world and would like to find a partner that could be a lifelong target for your rage? Then the new app Angr is for you, described as the first dating app for angry people. “There are a lot of angry and lonely people out there,” says Angr-founder Josh Eckhart. “We… Read more »
DESPERATELY hammering away at the touch sensitive keys on her phone display, one Waterford mother is in a race against the clock as she tries to warn her three children of a dangerous, but definitely fake WhatsApp scam that can kill you dead if you click on it. It is believed to be the 50th… Read more »
Expressing their frustration at the fact some Athenry locals failed to understand that when a large multinational company with questionable tax practices wants something in Ireland they are just allowed to have it, Apple have placed on the record their disappointment in not getting their way by announcing the cancellation of their planned data centre…. Read more »
ALTHOUGH leaked details regarding Facebook’s new dating profile srvice have shown that the service is just basically Facebook, that hasn’t stopped shares in other dating apps such as Tinder, Match.com and Fingr from tumbling to record lows. The existing dating sites took a hit on the stock exchange as Facebook rebounded from months of negative PR… Read more »
FACEBOOK Tsar Mark Zuckerberg is currently suffering from repetitive strain injury in his wrist, caused by having to ceaselessly click away ads for suits, barber shops, toothpaste and anxiety pills that have cluttered up his newsfeed since his congressional hearing this week. Zuckerberg was brought in front of congress amid the fallout of the Cambridge… Read more »
THE IRISH Data Commissioner’s office has been a hive of activity in recent days trying to grapple with the fallout from the misuse of Facebook users’ data by Cambridge Analytica among other firms, which now includes 45,000 Irish users. With leading tech giants making Ireland home to its European and Middle Eastern operations many privacy… Read more »
FOLLOWING months of pressure from some of the world’s leading nations and security agencies, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally gotten to the bottom of the social network’s problem; a rusty old wrench stuck wedged in one of its main servers. “It must have been in there since 2010,” the 31-year-old posted, with a picture of the… Read more »