Accurate maps are at the core of providing reliable transportation to everyone and everywhere. Uber has rolled out mapping vehicles in South African cities, beginning with Cape Town. The efforts can be compared to Google Street View vehicles. Uber uses a mix of mapping technologies to provide the underlying infrastructure […]
Year: 2016
Recently in Bahrain took place the MENA Angel Investor Summit 2016, which is one of the largest meetings of venture capitalists, angel investors, accelerators, angel investment organizations and entrepreneurs. The event’s purpose is to build a strong supportive and sustainable start-up ecosystem and grow the angel investment community in the […]
The German coalition government announced that from next year it will introduce legislation imposing on social networking sites fines for publishing false information in them. The fine’s value may reach even 500 000 euros. Announcement of the new regulations appeared in the commentary of Thomas Oppermann, the head of the […]
Russian company NTechLab released an application that in one second allows to recognize the face in the photo published on the Web. The tool has been integrated with Twitter. In its creators’ opinion, the app helps to identify fake accounts. However, Twitter protests and claims, that the application is incompatible […]
According to unofficial information, the European Union intends to implement less restrictive provisions for the use of cookies by websites. In the future, these annoying requests for permission to use cookies will be replaced by proper settings in the user’s web browser. Information on these EU objectives has been provided […]