Science and Technology

TikTok was completely caught off guard when The executive branch of the European Union told staff to remove the app from phones. Thursday. Theo Bertram, vice president of European public policy at TikTok, told Bloomberg that company executives found out about it through media reports. The European Commission department that issued the suspension never contacted the company about any concerns. “We have never talked to them. They never asked us for any opinion, so it's a surprise," Bertram said. “Normally we would expect some communication and then some ability to understand what the case is against us, what the evidence…

instagram implemented a new function that allows users to send text or photo updates directly to followersa new initiative of the Meta Platforms Inc division to improve the service. Meta's CEO, mark zuckerberg, announced the news on his Instagram account this Thursday the 16th, creating his own channel. The idea is to offer another way to share posts without having to put them in a main Instagram feed that will probably have everything. “I started this channel to share news and updates on all the products and technology we are creating at Meta,” he wrote. “This will be the place…

On a "black day" for Elon Musk and the still nascent autonomous vehicle industry, The Tesla company agreed this Thursday to withdraw from the market for revision no less than 362,000 of its carsequipped with the questioned software Full Self-Driving Beta (FSD)which piles up risk complaints from both users and federal regulators. The criticisms are multiplebut they aim in the first place at the fact that the independent driving system "exceeds the permitted speeds and many times they do not respect road safety laws"which should translate into obvious chances of accidents. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) had indicated…

Elon Musk announced that he will remove the blue ticks from the accounts. According to what was reported, the measure will affect users who are not subscribed to Twitter Blue. The owner of the social network guarantees the decision in a response to the message sent to him by a television host and actress from India. "The legacy blue checkmarks will be removed soon. Those are the ones that are truly corrupted," he said. Elon Musk will remove the blue tick on some accounts Last year, Musk had announced that Twitter Blue would cost $8 per month, but which is…

The opportunities for cybercriminals are multiple and are linked, to a large extent, to the news that occupied the agenda each day. This means that they modify their phishing techniques based on what is currently in the news. with the of Soccer World Cup Qatar 2022 the strategies of criminals appear from the purchase trends of linked products. In cases like these, the high demand for a product and the limited supply are taken advantage of, which generates anxiety among buyers. For example, loose figurines were offered (Messi's can be worth more than 10,000 pesos), packages and albums, which include…

We are in a time when GPS for vehicles stopped being fashionable because they came out through mobile applications. With Google Maps and Waze at the forefront of preferences, we quickly move through cities and routes throughout Argentina. We know how to dodge traffic, where there are speed enforcement cameras, cuts, wells, parking lots and almost all the data that can be useful when driving. However... we can't track off-road or navigate when we don't have mobile data, unless we have previously downloaded the maps to the phone. On this occasion, we will focus on locating our position and get…

He blood baths in the technology industry, it continued its course in the first months of 2023. For the technology sector, which grew meteorically during the pandemic, in subsequent years the rise in interest rates and inflation they cut those benefits. in the last months industry giants like, Alphabet, Google Matrix, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, PayPal and Dell announced cuts in their workforces that, when added together, far exceed the 60,000 jobs. Chicago companies seek foreigners fired by tech companies Even with all the layoffs announced for this year, most of the companies that are laying people off turn out…

Usually we tend to see social reality as aggregated phenomena, with statistics, projections and graphs that seek to explain in a simplified way an otherwise complex reality. The world of work, unemployment statistics, the percentage of poverty or the coefficients that measure inequality have the objective of making a reality that often overwhelms us measurable. One of the great promises of the technological disruptions that came with the fourth industrial revolution is to radically improve the precision and specific content of those statistics so that the supposed knowledge of reality that they gave us is more accurate. But we will…