Technology

In the coming year, Microsoft will gradually discontinue Internet Explorer 11. The browser will remain, but the light will gradually dim.   On August 17, 2021, IE11 will no longer be supported by Microsoft 365 apps. This includes Outlook, OneDrive, Word or Excel. Support in Teams will end on November 30 of this year. The company does point to the existence of an IE11 compatibility mode in Edge, and old, often very explicitly developed, applications for companies will still continue to work in Internet Explorer 11. Microsoft does not explicitly say whether the browser will receive additional security updates within a year or not. But presumably, that will still be the case. However, the signal is that Internet Explorer is a lot less useful in combination with other Microsoft appli...

Facebook is also complaining about the commission policy in Apple's App Store. The social network is annoyed that the iPhone maker with a new service from Facebook simply wants to have the usual fee on so-called in-app purchases.   With Facebook, it is now also possible for companies to set up paid online events. Enterprises may charge Facebook users to access specific live streams, such as a yoga class or seminar. Usually, Apple always gets a 30 percent commission on payments made within the Facebook app. That's a rule for apps that can be downloaded from the App Store. However, CEO Mark Zuckerberg's company had this time asked Apple to waive the usual fee, also because it would involve transactions for smaller entrepreneurs. They would have it severe enough because of the coron...

After Apple, Google has now also removed the popular cartoonish shooting game Fortnite from its app store.   That happened after developer Epic Games introduced its own payment method in the game - something that goes against the rules of the American tech giants. Apple and Google charge a commission on apps sold through their digital store. That amount can be as much as thirty percent of the purchase price, and that is an eyesore for more and more companies. For example, music service Spotify recently filed a complaint with the European Commission because it believes that Apple is guilty of unfair competition. Meanwhile, the maker of Fortnite, Epic Games, has also filed a complaint against the tech giants for abuse of their monopoly position.

Six ex-eBay employees are charged with harassing a couple who was critical of the auction site in their newsletter.   The six sent cockroaches to their address, among other things, the CEO was also partly aware. The case reads as if she is almost impossible to come up with. The six accused launched a smear campaign against a couple who had their own newsletter targeting online sellers. They were critical of eBay at times, and that bumped some employees. The six included members of the eBay security team, including some high-profile executives such as James Baugh, then senior director of Safety & Security, and David Harville, then director of global resiliency. The couple was sent anonymously of the six different cases ranging from porn, Halloween masks from a bloodied pig's ...

Google: Millions 0f Malicious Emails About Coronavirus Every Day. Hackers and cybercriminals are responding a lot to the coronavirus.   The email service Gmail sees an average of 18 million emails every day with malicious links and attachments and emails with phishing attempts, in which the senders say something about the coronavirus. In addition, 240 million spam emails about the virus are sent every day. Parent company Google says 99.9 percent of all spam, phishing and malware is blocked before the user receives them. Some emails are supposedly from the World Health Organization, WHO. It asks, for example, for donations, or to open an attachment containing important information about the virus. If a receiver does that, the senders can install malicious software. In other email...

Twitter is conducting a test in which tweets from politicians with factually inaccurate information are given a brightly coloured label with the text that the tweet is "harmfully misleading."   That works through user moderation. The feature identifies a tweet as "harmfully misleading" if enough other twitterers have identified the tweet as such through a point system, NBC News writes. Twitter has confirmed the existence of the test. Besides, the system also makes a distinction between various twitterers based on moderations from the past. If a tweet receives an orange label with the text that it is "harmfully misleading", Twitter will limit the further distribution of the tweet. The feature is one of how Twitter wants to keep misleading information off its platform. Twitter hin...

Since Sunday, Chinese telecom operators must scan the faces of new buyers who register a SIM card. In accordance with the authorities, the measure is intended to eliminate fraudulence.   Based on a be aware through the Ministry of Industry and knowledge, telecom operators must use "artificial knowledge" to make sure that the identification that new business successfully pass on is proper. They have to also make certain that customers tend not to resell SIM credit cards later on. Nevertheless, it did not reveal which organizations will offer you the technology for face scans. Furthermore, it really is unclear whether numerous numerous an incredible number of Chinese who have a SIM credit card can also get to scan their encounters. It is actually officially claimed that the measure ...

Twitter will delete inactive users from 11 December. Therefore, a number of older usernames are going to be released in the long term.   These are generally balances which have not been logged in for more than half a year. Twitter emails users beforehand with the warning their accounts are in danger of disappearing. Those who want to keep these should sign in and take the most recent relation to use. It is actually therefore not necessary to also tweet yourself to maintain your account productive. Twitter explains that it will gradually eliminate inactive accounts. Because of this, their tweets also vanish, plus they will no longer count as followers with some other accounts. For accounts of deceased people, the company is contemplating a sort of Memoriam wherein the tweets of thi...