San Jose, May 10 (EFE).– Contactless payment is a new technology aimed at reducing the use of cash through quick, efficient, easy and safe transactions in Latin America, a study published in Costa Rica on Thursday revealed. The study, conducted by Americas Market Intelligence (AMI) for Visa Inc., showed that the market is evolving toward …
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Los Angeles, USA, Jan 11 (EFE).- The Facebook social network platform announced Thursday that the News Feed of its users will prioritize posts published by their family and friends over public content from companies or media outlets. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, said in a statement posted on his official Facebook account that …
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San Francisco, Oct 4 (EFE).- Search engine giant Google on Wednesday presented the next generation of its Pixel mobile devices in this Northern California city, a launch aimed at consolidating its presence in a global market featuring smartphone heavyweights Apple and Samsung. In an event at the SFJAZZ Center, Google redoubled its commitment to hardware …
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Los Angeles, Sep 12 (EFE).- Facial recognition of the user and a screen that takes up practically the entire front surface, along with removing the home button, are the key features of the iPhone X, Apple’s newest smartphone that will hit store shelves this fall at $999. Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday was the …
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Mexico City, Aug 31 (EFE).- A Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate Thursday warned during her first visit to Latin America that social network could be used to generate xenophobia and encouraged young people to use them for political causes instead. During the press conference at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Mexico City, …
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Punta del Este, Uruguay, Aug 18 (EFE).- The first undersea fiber-optic cable connecting the United States with Uruguay, which reached the Uruguayan city of Punta del Este this Friday to complete the final stage of its installation, assures the South American country of its telecom sovereignty and makes it an international Internet provider. Uruguayan authorities …
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New York, Aug 8 (EFE).- Google has fired a software engineer who sent a controversial internal memo saying that men’s preponderance in tech jobs and leadership positions was partly due to biological causes and questioning company’s efforts to increase diversity. James Damore confirmed in an e-mail to Bloomberg that he had been fired from Google, …
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Washington DC, Jun 19 (EFE).- The president of the United States on Monday criticized federal government technology as “painfully outdated” during a meeting with the heads of major tech companies including Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. “Today, many of our agencies rely on painfully outdated technology, and yet, we have the greatest people in technology that …
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Los Ángeles, 14 jun (EFE).- Innovar en la forma de jugar y buscar la versatilidad a la hora de disfrutar de los videojuegos son dos de las claves de la estrategia de Nintendo, según aseguró hoy a Efe el director de marketing de Nintendo Ibérica, Gustavo Viudez. “Apostamos siempre por la innovación en la forma …
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Los Angeles, May 25 (EFE).- As a boy, he played with a toy boat his father made from a cardboard box and now Spaniard Raul Polit-Casillas has created for NASA a metallic fabric that can be made in space with 3D printers and used to make spacesuits and parts of spaceships. The manufacture of metals …
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