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The US is considering plans to impose stricter rules on firms listed in the country to open up their audit papers to US accountants.

A tentative deal unveiled last weekend would make Silicon Valley giant Oracle the technology partner for TikTok.

The tool which will be used by the Oversight Board was curated by its members along with Facebook's engineers.

Gradient's official page advertises AI Face with a description that reads: "Find out how you would look like if you were born on a different continent."

A major focal point for the new additions is to reflect gender-neutrality where designs feature three variants of a bearded person

Due to the sensitive nature of the footage in question, the popular video-sharing service attempted to control its distribution across its vast user base.

The Oculus Quest 2 VR headset is now equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset paired with 6 GB of RAM.

A US government national security panel was reviewing the Oracle bid while Republican lawmakers warned against accepting a deal that keeps TikTok in control.

Twitter maintained that it is "focused on keeping high-profile accounts on Twitter safe and secure during the 2020 US election."

Up until Election Day, public service announcements from non-partisan organisations for voting advocacy will reportedly be featured on Twitter.

Those who own Oculus VR headsets can watch the Facebook Connect event through the Oculus Venues app for a more immersive experience.

Supporters of the LGBT community have taken to Twitter in an effort to "kill" the author's career with the hashtag #RIPJKRowling

YouTube Shorts videos are limited to 15 seconds, according to the Google-owned platform used by some 2 billion people worldwide.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) said LGBT hashtags have been "shadow-banned" even if the terms used were not linked to sketchy content.

Walmart has joined forces with Microsoft in negotiations to buy TikTok with also Oracle reported to be interested in the app.

Even after users exit, restart, or power cycle their devices, the moment they attempt to launch WhatsApp it will immediately crash.

Earlier this year, TikTok was criticised after a 19-year-old user purportedly live-streamed his apparent suicide.

While most VR or AR research focuses on graphics, motion tracking, and immersive experiences, this one is geared towards audio.

The moves follow sharp criticism of Facebook's handling of the 2016 presidential election, when it failed to restrict disinformation from Russian operatives.

Now that TikTok's operations in the U.S. are up for sale as required by the Trump administration, Microsoft and Walmart are its prospective buyers.

The trending video challenge with the hashtag #holocaustchallenge has users in costumes and make-up to depict concentration camp victims

The executive order "has the potential to strip the rights of that community without any evidence to justify such an extreme action," the suit contended.

TikTok also repeated its intention to "pursue all remedies available to us in order to ensure that the rule of law is not discarded."

Meanwhile, TikTok -- another app with alleged ties to Beijing -- was likewise the subject of another ban order.

It seems the company's legal woes are not over as it is hit with a new class-action lawsuit over Instagram's alleged breach of privacy law.

The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service – a group that closely works with antitrust-related cases – has completed initial investigations.

Several US agencies already bar employees from downloading TikTok on to their phones.

If left unpatched, hackers will be able to exploit the operating system's permissions to access direct messages.

Instagram is launching Reels in over 50 countries on both iOS and Android operating systems via an in-app update.