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After Facebook announced its new dating feature for users in mid-2018, it went on to test the product in Colombia and gradually started adding other countries to the roster, facing a 5 billion USD fine for its US launch when investigators found severe privacy lapses. Now its dating feature launch in Europe has also been blocked after Facebook failed to comply with scheduled privacy checks in the required time period.

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The Global System for Mobile Communications Association, GSMA for short, has canceled this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona due to rising alarm over the coronavirus outbreak. The MWC is the largest mobile trade show in the world and receives more than 200,000 attendees from all over the globe. GSMA was forced to cancel the event after major companies like Amazon, Facebook and LG pulled out of the event.

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Reuters announced today that the newly formed Reuters Fact Check unit and online blog will be paid by Facebook to identify and limit the spread of fake news and misinformation on the social media website. A four-person team will review user posts and headlines from Facebook and update the Reuters Fact Check blog, flagging fake news and letting Facebook limit its spread in users' feeds.

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South Korean electronics giant Samsung unveiled a brand new flip phone with the name of Galaxy Z Flip, the base price for the new folding phone is $1380 with pre-orders starting February 14. Galaxy Z Flip users will be able to get a unique experience while using apps, for example, Youtube splits between the video and comments section when you bend it in half.

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Eileen Naughton, a long-time Google employee who joined the company in 2006 and eventually took a position as Google's vice president of people operations, has announced that she will step down from her post to a lower position, saying she needs to spend more time with her husband and family in New York. There are no details yet on her future position at the company.

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The UK-based digital banking startup Revolut has announced a new feature, only in the UK, that lets users view their bank account information from multiple bank accounts in a single interface, a feature known as account aggregation. Users will also be able to manage transactions and histories for all of their bank accounts from the app, allowing them a more complete picture of their spending habits and available funds.

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Tesla CEO has been in the news off-late for skyrocketing stock performance but on Saturday, Elon Musk responded to a tweet from Hollywood actor, writer and producer Sacha Baron Cohen in the most anti-Facebook way by using the hashtag DeleteFacebook, he added by calling facebook “lame”. Musk deleted the Facebook pages of Tesla and SpaceX in 2018 after saying he never used Facebook for personal use.

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European planemaker Airbus has revealed a new airplane design that blends the body and wings of the plane. The design is supposed to reduce carbon emissions by 20% but makes the plane somewhat harder to control. The company is still working on the designs of the inside of the plane.

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In a surprising new TV commercial, Samsung has unveiled its latest smartphone design, displaying a square-shaped foldable phone with a notification panel on the exterior. Last year Samsung lost its position as #1 smartphone developer to Apple thanks to the iPhone 11's great sales numbers. Experts say foldable phones will not become mass-market products until 2022.

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Xiaomi has confirmed the launch of the latest edition of its Mi smartphones, Mi 10 on February 13 in China, the global launch to follow on February 23rd, a day before Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona, Spain. Xiaomi announced the launch date for China on Weibo and the International launch date on twitter.

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Leading companies like Sony, Ericsson, and Amazon are withdrawing from this year's Mobile World Congress in Spain because of the Coronavirus risks which have affected more than 40,000 people around the world with 1,000 confirmed deaths. ."Due to the outbreak and continued concerns about novel coronavirus, Amazon will withdraw from exhibiting and participating in Mobile World Congress 2020," the company said in a statement.

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According to the recent reports, Facebook has recently acquired Deeptide Ltd, a UK based company that is behind the start-up ATLAS ML, a free and open resource for machine learning papers and code. The main focus of ATLAS ML is to make it easier to discover and apply deep learning research. Facebook has been working aggressively on the expansion of its AI capabilities and recently acquired Bloosbury and Scape Technologies

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Colombus, the capital city of Ohio, is getting several self-driving electric shuttles that will be used as public transport across the city. The shuttles are being introduced as part of a government-funded program to help cities develop advanced transportation modes. The shuttles have a 3-mile route and passengers will be able to travel for free.

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Police in Mumbai is trying out a new experiment to reduce the amount of noise pollution in the city. They are implementing a new system in some specific locations where the traffic signal will not turn green if the noise level in the area reaches 85 decibels. Thus motivating people to avoid using their horns so frequently.

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According to some insider information, the US government plans to double the budget for Artificial Intelligence research to $2 billion. The money will only go to non-military applications of the technology and will go a long way in helping scientists explore this field. It is not clear how this money will be distributed.

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Ex-Microsoft CEO and world's second-richest man Bill Gates has recently bought the world's first-ever hydrogen-powered superyacht. The boat is a whopping 112 meters and cost him 500 million pounds. The purchase is a symbol of Gates' belief in Hydrogen as a viable alternative clean energy source. Bill Gates was also behind the construction and development of the yacht.

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Swedish telecom company Ericsson has announced its withdrawal from this year's Mobile World Congress, arranged by GSMA, to be held in Barcelona, Spain, stating it could not sufficiently guarantee the safety of its employees attending the conference due to the worsening Coronavirus outbreak. The MWC is slated to have an attendance of over 100,000 visitors and has been under increasing scrutiny by the World Health Organization.

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Australia is following Europe in the transition away from petrol or diesel-powered vehicles. Electric and hybrid car sales have gone up by 50% this month as sales of fuel-powered vehicles go down. This could be the result of all the climate issues that the country is currently facing. Tesla is currently shipping 665 cars to Australia.

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While the announced February reveal for Sony's PlayStation 5 does not seem possible anymore, the company has unveiled the official website for the upcoming PlayStation, which requests users to sign up to receive further information about the PS5's pricing, game rosters and launch date, suggesting that the PS5's official launch is only a few more months away.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that his secretive startup that aims to connect the human brain to machines is working on an 'awesome' new device. He hopes the tech will be fully developed by the end of this year and claims it could potentially be used to solve mental illnesses such as autism or schizophrenia.

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According to a new report, Google is working on a new messaging app that will combine Google Drive, Hangouts, Gmail and many others. This will be Google's tenth and most ambitious app, aiming to clear up the confusion caused by a large number of available apps that seemingly serve the same purpose.

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Twitter has announced that it has banned a large network of fake accounts using a new feature that lets them connect phone numbers to user accounts. Many of these accounts were based in Iran, Israel, and Malaysia despite the fact that Iran has banned Twitter in the country, suggesting government involvement.

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The popular card game company Cards Against Humanity has announced its acquisition of news parodying website ClickHole from G/O Media, a private equity group whose union recently passed a vote of no confidence in the top management. The amount paid for the all-cash deal has not been released, but CAH founders have stated they will restructure ClickHole as a majority employee-owned company.

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Parent company Alphabet has revealed, for the first time, the revenue streams it received from YouTube and Google, as well as its cloud services. In the final quarter of 2019, YouTube's ad sales leaped 31 percent to 4.7 billion USD, with 2 million paying subscribers on the popular video hosting platform. Meanwhile, Google's advertising revenue increased 17 percent to stand at 27.2 billion USD.

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Smartphone manufacturing giant Apple has announced that starting February 9, it will be closing down all of its stores, offices and support centers in China due to the Coronavirus outbreak, though it is not clear if the policy also applies to its manufacturing operations in the country, which are run by Foxconn and are currently operating on a holiday schedule.

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