How secure is your Internet browser? Not very secure apparently. It took ethical hackers at Pwn2Own less than a day to prove it. Researchers engage in the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver. There are cash […]
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Microsoft announced that it plans to phase out its Internet Explorer Web browser beginning with Windows 10. The news was delivered by Microsoft’s marketing chief Chris Capossela at the Microsoft Convergence event, where he also announced the proposed replacement of
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Those who believe Facebook has reached its innovative peak might have to reconsider after what the social media giant revealed on Tuesday. Facebook added an “outside-the-box” feature to its messenger app—a peer-to-peer payment system integrated into the Facebook Messenger app.
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Last week, Facebook took the bold step of removing the ‘feeling fat’ icon from its platform and the social media platform has taken another bold step by banning postings of pornographic images on the platform. The company has now released
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Normally you expect tech firm acquisitions to be announced with great fan-fare. The strategy kills two birds with one stone—creates media hype and flex financial muscle. Twitter spurned that strategy when it acquired Persicope…apparently sometime in January. Twitter and Periscope
Is fat a feeling? Facebook seems to think so but public backlash from Facebook users has influenced the social media powerhouse to reverse that line of thought. A petition on Change.org against the use of the body shaming ‘feeling fat’
After turning a blind eye to revenge porn postings for too long Twitter has finally joined the ranks of Reddit and banned posting of revenge porn and nude photos without the subject’s consent. The social network has already taken official
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In a bid to offer advertisers FacebookAds that target their preferred demographics more precisely, Facebook is looking to up its big data analytics game in 2015. The world’s most widely-used social networking platform announced it has struck a deal with
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In an age where we have both Google and Wikipedia it may seem redundant to add a listing of Internet, technology, and security terms and definitions, but we’re doing it anyway. Below is a semi-comprehensive list of definitions of tech,
Can providing the entire Earth with wireless Internet win one the Nobel prize for either science or the humanities? For one reason or the other, I believe the dynamic duo of Larry Page and Sergey Brin certainly think so. As
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