Category: Internet
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Program To Detect Online Trolls Created
Troublemakers on online messaging services and forums, also known as trolls, are a consistent problem for websites. trolling epidemics and ultra aggressive users can drive away longtime users of sites, even when moderators are hard at work keeping things peaceful on the boards. A new algorithm is in development, built using research undertaken by both Cornell…
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Justice Department to block Comcast / Time Warner Merger
A year after Comcast announced they were planning to merge with rival American internet giant Time Warner Cable in a £30 billion contract things may not be looking so good. It has emerged that the deal does not have the authority or indeed the approval of many American regulators and authorities. Info has been leaked anonymously…
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EU Accuses Google Of Unfair Practices
The EU have been squaring up to internet search giant google for a number of months now, accusing them of monopolizing the search market and then prioritizing advertisements for their own products on their site. This spawned a recent antitrust lawsuit which is currently in debate in court. The EU are strict and very observant when…
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Phishing Emails Still Major Security Problem
Phishing e-mails are certainly one of the oldest methods of infecting a computer with a virus – the rogue mail lands in an inbox and awaits a user clicking on a link or attachment within that leads to a virus being downloaded. According to Verizon, in a new Data Breach investigations report, users are still…
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Big Vinyl Sales Prompt New UK Vinyl Chart
Vinyls. Those big freaky bumpy discs without any shiny rainbows on them. They’re strange, they’re somewhat odd… and yet, also, very interesting to watch as they spin around on the turntable and play crackly but crisp music. A lot of people probably agree, as vinyl discs are still in production, and indeed in the UK a…
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Awaken Your Star Wars Emoji on Twitter – How to Get Them Now!
To mark Star Wars Celebration and the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer which went live yesterday, Twitter in partnership with Disney and Lucasfilm will launch a selection of highly tweetable character icons/emoji. These can be used throughout the festivities and up to the release of the film with the first three characters available right now.…
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Twitter Reveals Redesigned Homepage for Desktop Users
Brick by brick Twitter has been rebuilding its social networking experience in a number of ways, from new methods of navigating the tweet feed and viewing media on mobiles to showing us what we might have missed since our last log in. The latest change will be evident even before logging onto Twitter as they’ve started rolling…
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Justice Served for Blind Netflix Subscribers – Audio Description Now Available
Audio description has been long discussed as being a crucial addition to the Netflix service, allowing greater accessibility to customers with a visual impairment. And now, thanks to Daredevil, the streaming company has jumped to action and introduced a commentary to a number of its original shows. Since the new Daredevil show went live last…
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Spartan Browser Arrives On Phones
Internet Explorer is going the way of the Dodo. The internet browser is already being phased out in favor of Microsoft’s brand new browser, Spartan. The new and improved web viewing app is to feature the ability to integrate with other browsers on Windows 10 for PCs, but what about phones? Well, Spartan has made…
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33% Of US Teens Are On Google+
A study over in the US has shown that increasing amount of teenagers are heading over to underdog social network Google+. However, youth figures from the US still reflected what we already know – youngsters in one of the world’s biggest social media using areas still prefer Facebook. Other social networks such as Instagram and…
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PS4 Gamers Invited to Tweet their Update Suggestions
Sony is taking a leaf out of Microsoft’s play book by offering PlayStation 4 owners the chance to make suggestions of things they’d like to see in future firmware updates for the console. Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios based in Japan, posted from his own account on Twitter inviting gamers to drop a…
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Half Of New Game Of Thrones Season Leaks
Earlier in the week we reported on a new technology from Google designed to sniff out and tag spoilers for TV shows in your web browser. Lo and behold, the need for such a technology has never before been so needed, as somebody on the Game of Thrones team just managed to leak the first…