Twitter said that it has seen an increase in requests from government agencies around the world for account information and content removal. Credit Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Top Stories This article and others like it are part of our new subscription. Learn More » Twitter on Thursday released its bi-annual transparency report , detailing the number of requests for information the company receives from government agencies around the world. Releasing transparency reports, a practice pioneered by Google four years ago, is now commonplace for many large technology companies; Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft regularly release their own similar versions. Twitter received 2,058 requests for user account information from a total of 54 different countries over the last six months, the company said, a 46 percent increase in requests from its previous report. As has been the case for years, the United States requested Twitter user information the most frequently, a
Quoting from the site techcrunch Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Samsung is making its own portable Bluetooth speaker as part of its new Level line of audio accessories, and the product goes on sale today online at its official store for $199. The device is definitely compact, and it’s an all-metal product, which is unusual for a Samsung piece of kit, but can it hold its own with the plethora of existing products on the market, including those just acquired by Apple in the form of the Beats Pill? Basics MSRP: $199 Battery life of 15 hours Bluetooth, NFC Built-in speaker phone Product info page Pros Attractive, compact, high-quality design Speakerphone interrupts line-in Cons Sound is just good, not great Design The Samsung Level Box is a well-designed piece of hardware. It features an all-metal enclosure with a metal grille to protect the speaker components too. Even the buttons are metal, which bets the question: why so much plastic on the phones when yo
A car bomb exploded outside a luxury hotel in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Tuesday, killing three guards, a security official said. Security forces were surrounding the Corinthia hotel, the most prominent hotel in Tripoli, where gunmen believed to be responsible for the blast were holed up inside the building. One gunman has been arrested, security spokesman Essam Naas said, adding that security forces were surrounding the seaside hotel. Two Filipino women were wounded by smashed window glass. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) offshoot in Libya claimed responsibility for the attack, according to monitoring group SITE. Tripoli-based al-Nabaa television channel said "senior officials" were inside the hotel. No more details were immediately available. Libya is in turmoil, with two governments and parliaments vying for legitimacy and control four years after the ousting of Muammar Qaddafi. Tripoli is controlled by a group called Libya Dawn, which s
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