Facebook wants you to read articles before sharing to combat misinformation
Facebook is testing a new pop-up feature starting from today. It will notify a user by telling them if they have not read an article before sharing. Users will be asked if they want to share the article that they have not opened. Two options will be available: to ‘continue...
Hundreds of NZ Students join ‘Virus experiment’ to predict outbreaks – video
The University of Auckland is involving hundreds of students in an experimental trial to predict and minimalise outbreaks of viruses such as Covid-19. An app called Safe Blues will be piloted with a joint partnership between researchers at the University of Auckland and Australian, Dutch and American universities. It uses...
Sky launches new Fibre Broadband service
Sky has announced they will be soft-launching its new fibre broadband service after talks were happening for months. Prior to the public announcement, the company offered its own branded broadband from a small group of existing satellite TV customers; however, it was not available to customers of their TV streaming...
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp experiencing worldwide outage
Social Media platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were experiencing an outage and was reportedly down. Users started to report the issue shortly after 9:30 am, being unable to refresh their feeds or use the platforms. Upon loading each website, one message displayed on Facebook said: “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re...
Yahoo Answers shuts down for good
Since the internet started, the longest-running Question and Answer platform will be set to shut down for good on May 4. Yahoo Answers has been operating since 2005, but will when shutting down, redirect to the Yahoo search page. This means all archives associated will vanish. In an announcement box...
Facebook data of 533 million accounts leaked online
Facebook has had a massive data leak leaving 533 million accounts at risk of privacy concerns and other means. Full names, locations, birth dates, phone numbers and email addresses were leaked. According to reports by Global News, all records were leaked for free following a tweet posted to Twitter showing...
World’s first ‘5G powered’ Tattoo – video
The first-ever remote tattoo has become a reality. It is called the ‘impossible tattoo’ by T-Mobile Netherlands. A fresh glimpse at new possibilities will offer and enable the future to prosper. With a low-latency of T-Mobile’s 5G network, it allowed for someone to be tattooed remotely in real-time over a...
Microsoft cloud-based services go offline
On Tuesday morning, a range of Microsoft cloud-based services went offline for a brief period of time. Around 30,000 people reported the downing on DownDetector. Most issues people mentioned were related to logging in. It affected many users worldwide. Microsoft confirmed at around 8:40 am, and there was awareness after...
New ‘DataHub’ launched for Property insights and analytics
New Zealand’s Real Estate Institute announced that they had launched DataHub, a central database for property data analytics. The DataHub brings together information that can include multiple sources of data combined to create insights and analytics on a dashboard in one place. Bindi Norwell, Chief Executive at REINZ says the...
Twitter plans to rollout ‘undo send’ feature for paying users
Twitter is testing a feature that would give users an ‘undo send’ function that allows a tweet to be withdrawn before it is posted. Jane Manchun Wong, who finds unannounced social media features and is an app researcher, found the feature in the sites’ code. The animation shows a tweet...
