Category: Internet
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Twitter for Android updates to include “While you were away”
The Twitter app for Android has now been updated to include a “While you were away” feature. The update gathers what the folks at Twitter feel to be the most important tweets that you may have missed from the accounts you follow since you last signed in, based on ‘engagement and other factors’. It then…
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Blomkamp’s Alien Sequel is Official Thanks to Instagram Posts
As a New Year dawned District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp didn’t just break the internet, he blew it out of the damn airlock, when he posted a series of images to his Instagram account depicting scenes from an Alien film he wanted to make but that was never to be. Now it’s practically…
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YouTube Music Key Coming Out Of Beta
Google and Youtube have been beta testing their Music Key service for a little while now, and according to the hype the pay monthly music streaming service will be ready for full public use in the next couple of months. As Apple are also readying a service which will also rival Spotify, Google are also…
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Oculus Rift Won’t Be Just For Games
Oculus VR might not just be used for entertainment purposes according to Facebook, as the popular headset has several other applications beyond just those that are purely in the name of fun. Of course, there are also social media functions and applications that might also appear in the device, especially since the Oculus Rift headset…
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Microsoft Adopts Cloud Privacy Standard
Microsoft have laid down a policy for their cloud network which they hope will make it easier for users to trust them when they upload their personal files to online services from the company. An atmosphere of mistrust is floating around technology and online services with regard to personal information of late, as big tech and…
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Find Out If GCHQ Spied On You Here
After a ruling earlier this month saw GCHQ getting called out for their newly deemed illegal spying actions, the activist group partially responsible for the ruling, Privacy International, has invited the average internet user to get involved querying the spying agency about whether they have been spied on. Right now if you’re willing to hand…
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Facebook Adds Memorial Option For Users
When someone passes away, they leave behind a lot of things, such as family members and of course all the things in life that people relied on them for. What’s more, Facebook profiles and other social media pages are left unattended, even though they’re not the most important. Now, Facebook has made it much easier…
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Virgin Readying £3b Broadband Investment
Super fast broadband hasn’t taken off as fast as we’d have liked in the UK. Indeed it’s mostly limited to large urban areas and through rather expensive packages, both of which have hampered the numbers of people getting on board with the high speed offerings from ISPs. However, Virgin, one of the biggest providers of…
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Samsung Updates Twitter to Mark Arrival The Next Galaxy
A week after the press invites went out for the Samsung Unpacked event on March the 1st the company’s Twitter presence for its mobile division has received a newly uniformed revamp, all in black and heralding “The Next Galaxy”. Even the name on the @SamsungMobile Twitter has been changed to TheNextGalaxy and #TheNextGalaxy hashtag has…
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Facebook Photos at Risk: How to Safely Store Them to PC
Facebook users could have been at risk of having their photos deleted according to a newly uncovered vulnerability. The potentially catastrophic flaw was reported by software engineer Laxman Mutivah who was able to take advantage of the security hole and delete an album from behind the curtain of the world’s most populated social network. Fortunately…
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DARPA Testing Deep Web Search Tool
DARPA, the US agency responsible for many high tech projects used to defend that country, and the creators of one of the internet’s precursors back in the late 1970s, is turning their attention to the problem of the ‘deep web’, hard to access, easy to hide websites and services maintained outside of the normal domain…
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Twitter Adds Swipe to Dismiss to Remove Unwanted Pics
It appears that a handful of Twitter app users are now getting to try a new swipe feature for getting rid of unwanted images from the Twitter feed. As standard a single tap on the touch screen of your Android or iOS device would expand to view fully and minimize a picture after viewing, allowing only…