Opera GX, the browser for gamers, today announced that its number of monthly active users (MAU) has surpassed 25 million across desktop and mobile devices. This milestone highlights Opera GX’s increasing adoption within the gaming community and its integral position within gaming culture. Continue reading
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Opera partners with Chess.com to create custom chess browser
Opera – a leading web innovator – is partnering with Chess.com to put chess right inside the browser. With custom builds for both desktop and mobile products, the collaboration will ensure chess fans can stay engaged with their community wherever they happen to be. Continue reading
VODAFONE AND AMAZON’S PROJECT KUIPER TO EXTEND CONNECTIVITY IN AFRICA AND EUROPE
Vodafone and Project Kuiper, Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite (LEO) communications initiative, today announced a strategic collaboration through which Vodafone and Vodacom plan to use Project Kuiper’s network to extend the reach of 4G/5G services to more of their customers in Europe and Africa. Continue reading
Moderators could be liable to lawsuits if they fail to protect privacy and data protection
Aug.31, 2023 /Internet/ — Moderators could be liable to lawsuits if they fail to protect privacy and data protection. The European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) aims to create a safer online environment for users by holding online platforms more accountable for the content they host. Under the DSA, moderators will be required to take steps to remove illegal content, such as hate speech and child sexual abuse material, from their platforms more quickly. They will also be required to be more transparent about how they moderate content and to give users more control over their data. Continue reading
The end of Twitter – how Elon Musk’s rebrand to X could foster the platform’s dark side
Leslie Hallam, Lancaster University
Alas, poor Twitter; we knew it well. Or, at least, we thought we did. Despite never occupying more than 10% of social media’s online presence, western audiences are very aware of the platform. That’s not least because of the way that the mass media echoes and amplifies the controversies and outrage born on Twitter.
Opera announces that its native browser AI integration surpasses 1 million users
Opera Limited (NASDAQ: OPRA), one of the world’s major browser developers and a leading internet consumer brand, today announced that Opera’s native browser AI, has reached over 1,000,000 users since recently becoming available to the users of the Opera Browser for Android and Opera Browser for desktop. Continue reading
How scammers use psychology to create some of the most convincing internet cons – and what to watch out for
Stacey Wood, Scripps College and Yaniv Hanoch, University of Southampton
Online fraud is today’s most common crime. Victims are often told they are foolish for falling for it, but fraudsters use psychological mechanisms to infiltrate the defences of their targets, regardless of how intelligent they are.
So it’s important to keep up with the latest scams and understand how they work.
Shipping today: Opera One, first browser with native AI is ready for download
Opera One, the latest incarnation of the Opera browser, is out of testing and ready for download. What would have been the 100th version of Opera now marks the beginning of a new evolution cycle for the Norwegian browser company’s flagship product. Continue reading
Dstillery Introduces Custom Search Lookalikes, A First-of-its-Kind Application of Search Keywords for Programmatic Advertising
Dstillery, the leading custom audience solutions company, today announced a new addition to its portfolio of targeting products. Unlike anything else on the market, Dstillery’s Custom Search Lookalikes uses patented AI and opted-in, de-identified panel data to bring the power of search to programmatic advertising in a new, innovative way. For the first time, brands and their agencies will be able to integrate their programmatic ad campaigns with search engine marketing by leveraging the keywords that drive performance. Continue reading
Bluesky will enable AI to interact with humans in a social way.
28 April 2023 /Internet/– Bluesky is an open-source, decentralized social media protocol being developed by a team of engineers and designers led by Jay Graber. The project was announced in 2019 by Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, who is also a founding member of Bluesky.
Bluesky is a Web 3 project. Web 3 is the next generation of the internet, built on blockchain technology. It is designed to be more decentralized, secure, and transparent than the current web. Continue reading