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Washington, Jul 1: Facebook Inc will ban ads that discourage people from voting ahead of the 2020 US presidential election, according to its second annual Civil Rights Audit published on Sunday. Facebook pledged to put its new “don’t vote” policy prohibition into effect in the fall, before the 2019 US elections on Nov. 5, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in a blog post announcing the...

Twitter has decided to go hard on political figures like US President Donald Trump who frequently violates its policies, saying it will put out a notice for tweets from accounts belonging to political figures, verified users, and accounts with more than 100,000 followers if they violate its rules. The notice -- a screen you have to click or tap through before you see the tweet to provide...

Adding to the plethora of new features that Google has been introducing to Maps, the search-engine giant would now predict transit crowdedness of buses and trains for passengers. The new feature has already been made available in around 200 cities around the globe, The Verge reported on Thursday. The search-engine giant is basing these details on past rides and for months and has been asking some...

Agra, Jun 25: The inordinate delay in granting permission for construction of a barrage on the Yamuna in Agra, about one-and-a half km from the Taj Mahal, could end up endangering the monument of love. According to experts, the Taj Mahal is built on massive wooden slippers that have shrunk over the years because of the decrease in the flow of the Yamuna. "If a barrage is constructed, it would not...

Montreal, Jun 24: A woman boarded an Air Canada flight earlier this month, fell asleep after takeoff and woke up alone in a dark, parked plane, apparently forgotten about by ground staff. Tiffani Adams's story was posted by a friend on Air Canada's Facebook page, drawing incredulous reactions from readers and a request for details from the airline. According to the post, Adams was flying from...

American retail giant Amazon has infused Rs 450 crore into its payments unit in India - Amazon Pay, according to regulatory documents. Amazon Pay (India) has allotted 45 crore shares of Rs 10 each aggregating to Rs 450 crore to Amazon Corporate Holdings and Amazon.com.incs Ltd, documents filed with Corporate Affairs Ministry showed. The documents, sourced by business intelligence platform Tofler...

Bengaluru, Jun 19: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwara, who is also Bengaluru Incharge Minister, today visited the accident site of the Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), where two Engineers and one a supervisor were killed on June 17 and said that the state government will conduct a thorough inquiry into the incident and seek a report from the experts in the Indian Institute of Sciences...

Two exoplanets that have been discovered, which are warm similar to Earth and may have water, could be alternatives to support life, according to a study on Tuesday. Scientists have been searching for planets close to nearby stars since 2016 using a 3.5-meter telescope. Images captured at the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, southern Spain, and two other Spanish telescopes allowed researchers to...

New Delhi, Jun 18: Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday said it has nothing fresh to add to the Indian government's demand to trace the origin of messages on its platform as it "undermined the privacy of the people". Reacting to an ET story that claimed government officials have asked WhatsApp to digitally fingerprint every message, without breaking its end-to-end encryption, so that the origin of...

New Delhi/United Nations, Jun 18: India will overtake China to become the world's most populous country in just eight years, according to a United Nations report. In the world' populated country by the century ends. Meanwhile, the Chinese population will decrease by 31.4 million, or around 2.2 per cent, between 2019 and 2050. The report titled 'The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights'...