Samsung is apparently working on a dual charging pad of its own to compete with Apple’s new AirPower mat, according to a patent the company filed with the U.S. Patent Trademark Office.
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Before we had the simple SIM cards. Then we moved on to microSIMs and nanoSIMs. Now we are talking about eSIM. What do all these terms mean? Let’s break it down.
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This database shows posts that organisations and individuals have paid to push into Facebook news feeds.
Unless you are the one targeted, there is no way know that these posts appeared as ads, which is why Guardian Australia has partnered with ProPublica to track and publish them.
The nature of Facebook ads makes it difficult to see when political ads go out, which groups are campaigning for which cause and fact-check what they’re saying
If you’re over 25, live in Australia and have a family then you might have seen Malcolm Turnbull pop up in your Facebook feed last week, with a video spruiking the new energy policy.
This video and text post was “sponsored” – that is, someone from the prime minister’s office paid to promote the post as an advertisement.
IO Interactive has announced Hitman: Game of the Year Edition, featuring four new campaign missions and additional outfits. The new features will be available as a $20 upgrade to existing players.
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Company’s head of news feed says test is to see if users prefer only friends’ posts in timeline, but journalists in affected countries warn of danger to democracy
Facebook is testing whether or not people prefer “personal and public content” being separated as part of its test in which it hid all non-paid posts, said the company’s head of news feed, Adam Mosseri.
Speaking after a Guardian report revealed the radical change, forced on six small nations around the world, Mosseri said Facebook “currently” has no plans to roll the experiment out further. But he did not address whether or not the test would become general policy worldwide if the results show that Facebook users do prefer the news-free news feed.
Tory MP writes to Mark Zuckerberg over suspicions that Russia-linked accounts interfered in EU vote and general election
Mark Zuckerberg has been asked to search for evidence that Russia-linked Facebook accounts were used to interfere in the EU referendum and the general election as part of a parliamentary inquiry into “fake news”.
Damian Collins, the chair of the digital, culture, media and sport committee, has written to the Facebook founder after suspicions that Russian “actors” used the platform to interfere in British politics. Facebook has 32 million users in Britain.
Palestinian man questioned by Israeli police after embarrassing mistranslation of caption under photo of him leaning against bulldozer
Facebook has apologised after an error in its machine-translation service saw Israeli police arrest a Palestinian man for posting “good morning” on his social media profile.
The man, a construction worker in the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit, near Jerusalem, posted a picture of himself leaning against a bulldozer with the caption “يصبحهم”, or “yusbihuhum”, which translates as “good morning”.