Cisco Settlement Over Hackable Tech a Warning to Government Contractors

The settlement Cisco will pay to settle claims it sold states and federal agencies hackable surveillance software marks a sea change in how seriously the government is now taking cyber-security bugs.

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Amazon Says French Clients to Bear Cost of France's New Digital Tax

Amazon plans to pass on the costs of France's new digital tax on internet giants to the businesses that use its Marketplace platform for finding customers.

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Google Assistant Speech Data Transcription Halted in the EU

Google has given reassurances that it won't make transcripts of speech data picked up by its Google Assistant system in the European Union for at least the next three months.

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Amazon to Expand Its Largest Fulfilment Centre in India

Amazon's Hyderabad fulfilment centre is spread across 400,000 square feet and will now be expanded by another 180,000 square feet.

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100,000 Older IBM Employees Fired to Make Company 'Cool', 'Trendy': Lawsuit

A senior IBM employee has deposed in an ongoing age discrimination lawsuit that the company has fired as many as 100,000 employees in the last few years in an effort to look "cool" and "trendy" for...

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Google suspends Assistant trasncription reviews in EU following leaks of conversations to media

Earlier this month, Google went under fire after a Belgian news outlet reported of thousands of personal recordings that were recorded by Google Assistant via a Google Home device or smartphone. The recordings were provided by a Google employee whistle blower in an attempt to expose Google's practice. As a result, Google has suspended all Google Assistant audio reviews in Europe - the company confirmed to CNBC. We are in touch with the Hamburg data protection authority and are assessing how we conduct audio reviews and help our users understand how data is used. Shortly after we learned...

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Elon Musk Says Import Duties In India Will Make Tesla Cars Unaffordable

For any car costing over Rs. 27 lakh, the import duty applied to it is 100 per cent. For anything less than that it is 60 per cent, so yes, a Tesla will be expensive to buy in India.

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