India once again tops the list of countries where governments make the maximum number of demands to remove content from Facebook, according to a report released by the company. Notably, there has been a three-fold increase in such demands in the first six months of this year as compared to last year. According to the data released by Facebook in its biannual government requests report, India made 15,155 demands, outnumbering 92 other countries in the list, Mashable reported. In comparison, India had made 5,832 requests for content removal between June and December 2014. The company said the posts were censored…
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Internet users of the Yik Yak social media app popular among college students aren’t nearly as anonymous as they believe: Missouri police within hours arrested a student accused of threatening violence, the latest in a string of such arrests at colleges in recent months involving threats of mass violence posted online using the service. Yik Yak provides a feed of anonymized comments from people physically around them, such as on the same college campus. It’s by far the most widely adopted, anonymous, location-based applications at schools. It’s also been used by students at dozens of campuses to make offensive comments…
Google, Facebook and Twitter are all banned in China, but the Internet giants’ top executives are increasingly frequent visitors to Beijing as they seek opportunity and profit from the world’s second-largest economy, despite concerns over censorship. Google terminated most of its operations in mainland China in 2010 after controversy over the country’s online controls and an attack on users of its Gmail service. But Eric Schmidt, its former CEO and now president of its new parent company Alphabet, was in Beijing last week declaring: “We never left China.” “We would very much like to serve all of China,” he told…
Moscow has warned Twitter that it must store Russian users’ personal data in Russia, under a new law, the national communications watchdog told AFP on Wednesday. Legislation that came into force on September 1 requires both Russian and foreign social media sites, messenger services and search engines to store the data held on Russian users on servers located inside the country. The controversial law was adopted amid Internet users’ growing concerns about the storage of their data, but also as Russia has moved to tighten security on social media and online news sites that are crucial outlets for the political…
Facebook Inc said content restrictions and government requests for data surged in the first half of 2015, which the social network has seen continually increase since it began publicly releasing such data two years ago. Government requests for account data globally jumped 18 percent in the first half of 2015 to 41,214 accounts, up from 35,051 requests in the second half of 2014, Facebook said in a blog post Wednesday. The amount of content restricted for violating local law more than doubled compared with the same period in the second half of 2014 to 20,568 pieces of content, it said.…
Electronic Arts Inc has little to fear from retailer GameStop Corp’s warning about weak sales for EA’s just-released “Star Wars” title, with analysts agreeing it was too early to predict its success or failure. The videogame publisher’s shares fell as much as 7 percent on Monday after GameStop said its sales of “Star Wars: Battlefront” were weaker than anticipated. Analysts and one top investor in EA said it was premature to conclude that the warning was a sign of weak demand. The comments from GameStop, the world’s largest videogame retailer, do not reflect digital videogame sales and come days before…
Microsoft has some sweet new deals for you as we head into the holidays particularly if you’re a gamer. There are a dozen deals for different flavors of the Xbox One console itself. Many of the deals come bundled with games that Microsoft is promoting heavily this season. Some of these bundles will start as low as $299 (roughly Rs. 19,700) a $100 discount. Here’s a full list of the bundles, which are available from Thanksgiving Day through the end of the month. Xbox One Limited Edition “Halo 5: Guardians” Bundle Xbox One Elite Bundle Xbox One 1TB Holiday Bundle…
God of War 3, the Uncharted trilogy, and The Last of Us aren’t the only games from Sony that have received spruced up re-releases on the PlayStation 4 (PS4). At Tokyo Game Show the Japanese publisher let it slip that cult classic PS Vita game Gravity Rush was being remastered as well. Now, the latest in the list is Beyond Two Souls from French studio Quantic Dream which will be available digitally from November 26. Guillaume de Fondaumière, Quantic Dream’s COO, took to the PlayStation Europe blog to break the news. It will sport a host of visual improvements that…
Earlier we reported of the possibility of playing PlayStation 1 (PS1) and PlayStation 2 (PS2) games on the PlayStation 4 (PS4). Sony has now confirmed this will be possible. Well, at least in the case of PS2 games. “We are working on utilising PS2 emulation technology to bring PS2 games forward to the current generation,” a Sony representative told Wired via email. “We have nothing further to comment at this point in time.” This comes after Digital Foundry – one of the foremost resources on console technical comparisons -reported that the four classic Star Wars games included in certain PS4…
Need for Speed’s first major update will fix one of the game’s biggest flaws. And no, we’re not referring to the always online requirement of the game sadly. Developer Ghost Games has outlined that its first update will fix the game’s rubber banding issues. In our review, we stated that AI-controlled racers manage to supernaturally blitz past you even if you’ve consistently held the lead in a race for most part. “We have been reading your feedback over the launch period, alongside media reviews and taking stock. One of the big talking points that we’ve seen has been ‘rubber banding’…