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UK data watchdog issues Snapchat with enforcement notice over AI chatbot
Snapchat owner Snap Inc could face a huge fine after the UK data watchdog, the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office), issued it with a preliminary enforcement notice over its alleged failure to assess privacy risks posed by its 'My AI' artificial intelligence chatbot. The preliminary notice sets out the steps which the Commissioner may require, subject…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Snap shares plummet due to ad slump
Snap announced plans to “substantially reduce” hiring and shake up its strategy as it posted bleak second-quarter results, blaming tough macroeconomic conditions but also stating it was “not satisfied with the results . . . regardless of the current headwinds”. The social media company lost about a quarter of its value on Thursday after posting the results, which chief…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Amazon suffers slowest growth in two decades
Amazon has suffered its slowest growth for two decades, knocking $150bn (£120bn) off its value on Thursday, as the pandemic internet shopping boom ground to a halt. The online retail giant said revenues rose by 7pc in the first three months of the year to $116.4bn. This was the slowest growth since 2001, in the aftermath…
Tech Digest daily round up: Snap announces AR Spectacles – but you can’t buy them!
Snap’s new Spectacles glasses are its most ambitious yet. But there’s a big catch: you can’t buy them. On Thursday, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled the company’s first true augmented reality glasses, technology that he and rivals like Facebook think will one day be as ubiquitous as mobile phones. A demo showed virtual butterflies fluttering…
Snap rolls out cooking game Ready Chef Go!
Snap Inc. and Mojiworks, a developer of bespoke games for global social platforms has unveiled Ready Chef Go!, a cooking game available exclusively on Snap's real-time multiplayer gaming platform, Snap Games. In Ready Chef Go!, friends can play together to out-cook other teams of Snapchatters in quick rounds of up to 60 seconds, adding upgrades and ad-driven…
Snapchat adds Time Machine age-transforming feature
Snapchat is aiming to lure more users on to its photo-sharing app with its new Time Machine age-transforming filter. The Time Machine feature works as a slider, making faces appear younger from one end and older in the opposite direction. Platform owner Snap will be hoping to replicate previous successful filters such as gender swapping,…
Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright to meet Mark Zuckerberg for internet safety talks
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is to discuss internet safety with the Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright today, as the Government looks to tackle online harms with legislative measures to protect vulnerable people. Mr Wright has flown out to San Francisco with Digital Minister Margot James this week, to meet with companies in Silicon Valley, the world’s…
Sony planning ANOTHER PS3 controller? Two-piece "breakable" motion concept ready to be shown
Sony is planning to clone Nintendo’s Wiimote, astonishingly, with a two-piece motion controller for PlayStation3 almost ready to be unveiled – and the DualShock3 isn’t even out in Europe yet.
The PS3 concept currently resembles a traditional PlayStation controller, only with the ability to snap apart into two pieces – each with a motion-detecting accelerometer inside it, just like the popular wavy Wii controller…
