A regulation announced in September 2019, was due to come into effect on Sunday when all people in China are required to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services, as the authorities seek to verify the identities of hundreds of millions of internet users. China has for years been trying to…
The Average price of a sponsored photo on Instagram has leaped from £104 ($134) t0 £1, 276 ($1, 6742 in 2019. Brands are willing to pay more to sponsor posts, videos, stories and blogs too. “Digital marketing is the equivalent of word of mouth but there will always be a mix between that and traditional…
Alarms already sounded by Bill Gates, late Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, about artificial intelligence and how one day super-intelligent robots will one day wipe out or enslave humanity. Superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not just human relationships and jobs but civilisation itself. Conflict between humans and machines is seen as…
Gretchen McCulloch, a Canadian linguist, making sense of the ways we communicate online “ how internet is making us more nuanced and inventive writers”, in her latest book she writes “ because of internet, through a revolutionary period in linguistic history, where writing quickly, within character limits and deploying ever-changing internet slang, is enriching…
Twitter and Instagram was used to hurl racist abuse at Paul Pogba, the Manchester United midfielder. Team-mates rallied to his defence, criticised social media companies who inturn gave their usual excuses that they were monitoring the situation banning those who participated in the abuse, investing in new tools to avoid such situations. The Twittering Machine…
Michelle, an American-Italian Diva, is not your average Diva, advices readers to “ Keep Your Shit Together”, “ Give Good Face” and “Be Thankful You’re a Misfit” Michelle Diva’s book give powerful positive and polished tips from her vogueing days in downtown Manhattan clunes in the 90s to her successful career in radio and…
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…
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…
WhatsApp owned by Facebook which has more than 201m users in India, making the country its largest market by far has been under growing pressure from India and Australia to find ways to clamp down fake news, inflammatory and incendiary rumours circulating through its systems, especially after a series of lynch mobbings by crowds of…
In Zuboff ‘s view Google’s original aim of making all the world’s information accessible mutated into a ruthless domineering to make money by exploiting and modifying human behaviour, by serving up ads to users just when they are most susceptible to persuasion and generating wants they did not know they had. Google is following a…