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Huawei Wants to release its Alternative to Android this Fall. Phone manufacturer Huawei wants to launch its alternative to Android in the autumn of 2019, CEO Richard Yu told, according to the reports.   The US imposed sanctions earlier this week, as a result of which Google may no longer offer its license for Android to Huawei. The sanctions were postponed later, allowing the companies to cooperate for another three months. The operating system of Huawei must absorb the final blow. New telephones from the company can then be provided with the latest software. Huawei would still be enabled to use an open version of Android,  but this does not have the standard apps such as the Google Play Store and Gmail installed. The operating system of the Chinese manufacturer would have its...

Sony Wants 16,800 Dollars of a Man who sold PlayStation 4 with illegal Games. Sony is claiming a compensation of 16,800 dollars from an American suspected of selling PlayStation 4 gaming consoles on which illegal games could be played.   It is a compensation for the alleged sale of two game consoles, for which Sony charges 800 dollars each,  and 200 dollars for every illegally downloaded and installed game. According to Sony, the man used an opportunity to bypass the built-in protection against pirated games on PlayStations 4. He would then have sold the game consoles with dozens of games at the eBay online marketplace. In October, Sony filed a lawsuit against the man, who afterwards did not react to the charges. That is why the Japanese entertainment company asks the court to ...

Facebook gives Android Users an option not Permanently to share Location. Facebook now offers users on Android phones the opportunity to share their location only when they use the app, the company announces Wednesday.   Android users can modify the background location option in the Facebook app to ensure that Facebook can only query the location when the app is in use. Previously, Facebook only had the opportunity to always or never collect the location. Android does not offer an option to determine per app that the location data can only be obtained,  when the app is in use, something iOS offers for iPhones. Users who disable location history assure that Facebook only collects the location when the app is in use. If Location History is enabled, users will also share their loc...

YouTube Eases policy on Violating the code of Conduct. Users who violate the YouTube rules will no longer be penalised for the first offence. YouTube eases the penalties for misconduct on the platform from Tuesday.   At the very first offence, the content that led to the violation is removed by YouTube, but users will only receive a warning from now on. After the first warning, all subsequent violations lead to a strike, which is in the name of the use. A channel is removed for three strikes in ninety days. A strike expires after ninety days. The first warning is not included in that system: it is only sent once and does not expire. Previously, YouTube promptly gave a strike and a live stream ban on the first offence. The first strike now indicates a ban on live broadcasts and ...

Twitter Refused 70 Million accounts in May and June. Twitter has removed more than one million accounts a day in recent months. In May and June, it involved 70 million accounts.   Since October last year, the number of suspended accounts has more than doubled, Twitter confirms to The Washington Post. Twitter has started to take action against people who abuse the platform. It includes the number of fake news and misleading information. In March, changes in the algorithm were declared, through this bad behaviour can be recognised. Twitter published a message in June, in which the company explains how spam and abuse are handled. It states that the weekly 10 million accounts were examined for authenticity. Users had to confirm their report via a telephone number or e-mail address....

Facebook has taken over the British start-up Bloomsbury AI. The company develops artificial intelligence, which Facebook would like to use against fake news. Bloomsbury AI joins the London branch of the American company, reports Facebook head artificial intelligence Yann LeCun Tuesday on Facebook. Although Facebook does not want to use the expertise of Bloomsbury AI to counter fake news, according to TechCrunch this is the intention of the takeover. Co-founder Sebastian Riedel of Bloomsbury AI has previously started a company that traces fake news, that's what says Down Town News. According to Facebook, the acquisition should provide a better understanding of so-called natural language. For artificial intelligence, it is often difficult to interpret what people have written down in natu...