Reddit locks out Wayback machine to stop AI from scraping old postsReddit has restricted the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from extensively capturing its content due to concerns over unauthorized AI da...
12 Aug, 2025, 01.57 AM IST
Web archivists scrambling to save US public data from deletionAs Trump’s administration removes federal data on climate, health, and minority rights, experts and volunteers race to preserve it. Using t...
08 May, 2025, 08.36 AM IST
From New York to Seattle: How Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is archiving US history through local community groupsCommunity history groups serve as valuable archives, preserving rare photos and materials that may be hard to find elsewhere. Run by passio...
14 Feb, 2025, 09.45 PM IST
Internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here, and can we go back?Your social media feeds are full of eye-catching, provocative, hyper-targeted, or anger-inducing content, from bizarre AI-generated imagery...
17 Sep, 2024, 12.14 PM IST
Apple explores AI deals with news publishersMicrosoft, OpenAI, Google, Meta and other companies have released chatbots and other products built with the technology. The tools could ch...
23 Dec, 2023, 09.25 PM IST
Apple explores AI deals with news publishersApple has floated multiyear deals worth at least $50 million to license the archives of news articles, said the people with knowledge of ta...
23 Dec, 2023, 07.54 AM IST
Saving Kodak Moments: How digitisation made us take photos for grantedIn the pre-digital era, pictures were few and finite, thus far more precious perhaps? Film rolls came with an average of 36 exposures or ‘p...
28 May, 2023, 06.06 AM IST
Elon Musk says Twitter will purge inactive accounts. What does that mean for now-deceased users?Musk's announcement has been met by an outcry from those who have lost, or who fear losing the thoughts and words of deceased loved ones li...
18 May, 2023, 12.16 AM IST
MeitY pulls down draft data anonymisation guidelinesThe guidelines were put up for feedback by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on August 30.
08 Sep, 2022, 08.20 PM IST
Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn move to secure Afghan citizens' accounts amid Taliban takeoverFacebook has temporarily removed the ability for people to view or search the friends lists of accounts in Afghanistan.
20 Aug, 2021, 07.59 AM IST
CSMVS Director General Sabyasachi Mukherjee says next-gen interested in past, want to know about their rootsMukherjee feels there is a huge, cultural hunger in the country.
14 Aug, 2019, 05.26 PM IST
Google expands partnership with Prasar Bharati for live, archival content digitisationGoogle will also work towards digitising content from over two decades from All India Radio and Doordarshan on Google Arts and Culture.
13 Aug, 2019, 07.37 PM IST
Govt works on a roadmap for emerging techThe idea is not just to increase their usage in the official machinery but also to promote the increasing number of emerging startups in th...
11 Oct, 2017, 11.33 AM IST
PMO changes Twitter handle; BJP terms it 'unethical, ungraceful'The Twitter handle, @PMOIndia, begun during the tenure of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was changed to @PMOIndiaArchive on Tuesday.
21 May, 2014, 08.34 AM IST
Google's new policy infringes privacy of millions of internet usersGoogle's new unified privacy policy unveiled in March is the 'mother of all policies' replacing 60 separate policies of its individual prod...
04 Jul, 2012, 08.46 AM IST
- Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo! oppose Google book settlement
Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! joined with non-profit groups and library associations on Wednesday in opposing the legal settlement which wou...
26 Aug, 2009, 11.30 PM IST
- Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo! to oppose Google book project
Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! are planning to join a coalition of library associations and non-profit groups in opposing Google's ambitious ...
21 Aug, 2009, 07.35 PM IST