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Facebook's new tool lets you see which apps and websites tracked you
The tool, Off-Facebook Activity, allows users to view the hundreds of sites and apps that share data and customer information with Facebook. They can disconnect the data from their account if they want
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The mystery of the Himalaya's Skeleton Lake just got weirder
Hundreds of human skeletons emerge from this lake, originally thought to have died simultaneously in a catastrophe. But a new genetic analysis carried out by scientists in India, the United States and Germany has upended that theory
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Hong Kong vs China: A complicated relationship, explained
A timeline of the region's history, and events that led to the Hong Kong protests
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#Logout Campaign: Food tech aggregators like Zomato to end deep discounting
After a two-day meeting with the National Restaurant Association of India, membership programmes such as Zomato Gold, Dineout, EazyDiner and Nearbuy have agreed to rejig their features to 'detox customers from addiction of deep discounts'
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Ride-sharing piles up traffic at airports
It is not your imagination: Traffic at the airports — even before you get inside — has gotten worse. The cause is not just the record number of travelers. It's also the shift to ride sharing
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'Natural selection brought us here. Artificial selection will take us forward'
Atul Jalan, founder and CEO of artificial intelligence company Manthan Systems, explores the future of mankind in his latest book, 'Where Will Man Take Us?: The Bold Story Of The Man Technology Is Creating'
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Facebook and Twitter say China is spreading disinformation in Hong Kong
In recent weeks, Facebook and Twitter accounts that originated in China acted in a coordinated fashion to amplify messages and images that portrayed Hong Kong's protesters as violent and extreme, the two social media companies said Monday
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Look for opportunities instead of focusing on the negatives: RBI governor
Das highlighted that monitoring NBFCs is on to prevent any collapse, gross NPAs position of banks is improving
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Are the Met's prized Indian antiquities from a smuggling racket?
Since 1990, the Met has acquired some 15 antiquities that passed through the hands of Subhash Kapoor, a Manhattan art dealer accused of smuggling, during a period in which his ring was active
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Not machine learning: AI is learning from humans. Many, many humans
Tech executives rarely discuss the labour-intensive process that goes into the creation of AI—in countries such as India, China, Nepal, the Philippines, East Africa and the United States, tens of thousands of office workers are punching a clock while they teach the machines