Roger Faligot exposes the sprawling octopussy of the world’s intelligence service, from the very birth of communist China to Xi Jingping’s absolute control today. The concerted efforts to block, squeeze and punish the China’s technology industry is an important and fundamental shift in the US policy shift with China and lurched into deeper confrontation.…
Instagram is hiding the number of likes on posts in several countries, including Australia and Japan so that to remove pressures on users. The trial begins on Thursday, as users will see a user name “ and others” below posts, instead of the number on their feed. Instagrammers can still view the number of…
Re Reality star Kim Kardashian West’s Kimono underwear offends Japanese Kim Kardashian West has angered Japanese with the launch of her new shapewear bran Kimono Intimates. Kim said the label, launched on Tuesday, is inclusive and “celebrates and enhances the shape and curves of women.” Japanese people on social media have said the trademarked brand…
Bugs of a different kind, bed bugs temporarily shut down a 24-hours on New York City’s Fifth Avenue. Staff were ordered to pack their belongings in plastic bags last Friday after a bed bug was spotted in a manager’s office. Eventually a beagle dog sniffed out the bugs in the locker area. According to an…
Snapchat is following the mobile gaming lead of WeChat and Facebook Messenger by adding games to Snapchat as it tries to puts failures of 2018 behind it. Snap is hoping to tap the £54bn ($70bn) mobile gaming market, when Apple, Google, Tencent and Microsoft are all making new bids for developers’ and players attentions. The…
China’s Great Firewall once a glorified porn filter has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world In China you can erase and delete all your Twitter posts after publishing a data analysis of government officials, plagiarised academic work. Over the past year, Beijing’s censors have for the first time tried…
Aspiring fashion designer and Instagram influencer with 1.3 million followers, Felicite Tomlinson – sister of One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson has died aged 18. Louis and Felicite lost their mum Johannah to leukaemia in 2016 and they have five siblings including twins under the age of six. According to Scotland Yard, police were called by…
21-year-old Kylie Jenner has become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire according to Forbe’s billionaires’ list. The youngest Kardashian family member made her fortune from her best-selling cosmetics business promoted by Instagram postings with over 128m followers. She made her announcement ” I wanted to remind you guys that my powders launch on Thursday” and proceeded…
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says he hopes new technology will help to flag all graphic images of self-harm and will be removed from Instagram. Father of Molly Russell, 14-year-old who took her own life in 2017, said Instagram had “helped kill” his daughter. Molly’s family found she had been viewing graphic images of self-harm on…
Facebook is shutting down an app that paid $20 a month to people aged between 13 and 35 for allowing it to collect data on their iPhones, which according to Apple breached its privacy policies. The “ Facebook Research” app enabled the social network to monitor a user’s web and phone activity, including how they…