Category: Websites
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Rapidshare To Close After 13 Years
It’s the end of an era for some, as long time file sharing RapidShare are choosing to close their doors for the last time next month. The venerable service is to go offline after serving users with content for over 13 years, with the site advising users to get their affairs in order by March…
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Twitter Reports New Raise In Data Requests
Ever since 2012, microblogging social media site twitter has been releasing transparency reports on how many requests governments and law enforcement agencies have made to the site in order to obtain data on users posting on the social network. the reports have been going up and up for a while now, as social media is…
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NoFlyZone Protects Users From Drones
You’re probably worried about drones as much as we are – these consumer owned devices have the ability to potentially snoop into homes and offices using their unprecedented access to high places. It’s actually not strictly legal to shoot down a drone that’s spying on you, even if it’s above your land. According to Ryan Calo,…
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GCHQ Cyber Spying Ruled Unlawful
Reports into NSA spying in the US by whistleblower Edwrad Snowden didn’t just reveal the activities of agencies spying on internet users in America – it also came out that the UK’s spying agency which handles cyber warfare, GCHQ, was also involved in the clandestine examination of data collected from internet users. Not only were…
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Netflix to Make Live-Action Zelda Series
Nintendo’s famous Zelda series has been one of the most loved, most commonly remembered game series of late, with N64 title Ocarina of Time and more modern additions to the series being the most fondly remembered by gamers. It’s now been announced by original series creator and TV streaming site Netflix that the game is…
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Twitter Posts To Return to Google Search
Twitter posts haven’t been seen on Google’s search results page for a while now. Back in 2011, the search engine withdrew the feature where Tweets showed up on results pages due to an agreement between Google and Twitter expiring. During the first half of 2015 Tweets will make a comeback, appearing alongside links in a special…
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Study Links Facebook Envy With Depression
A recent study has shown that the envy some of us feel when browsing Facebook could have a negative effect on us psychologically, potentially leading to depression. Users of the social networking site are often exposed to the successes of others, be it in material ways or romantically, so it’s no secret that the site…
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Pirate Bay Returns With Phoenix Logo
After a few weeks downtime, the Pirate Bay has returned to the internet in its usual form, despite the earlier raid on the site’s servers a few weeks ago. The site was up in some form during the downtime, although mirror sites did include some questionable ads. However, the old, ad-free version of the site,…
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Carphone Warehouse to launch its own MNVO Network with Three
The UK’s Mobile Phone Network setup is going through a bit of a Shakeup in 2015, as following last week’s news that Three recently confirmed it has entered talks with O2’s owners Telefonica about a possible £10.25bn takeover deal, it’s also been announced today that the Carphone Warehouse will be launching its own UK network. The owners…
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Crime Reporting Site May Open In The UK
The UK government have been looking in to ways to decrease the threats they perceive to the general populace posed by online sites and other web services. Prime Minister David Cameron recently announced that he would crack down on encrypted web services in the event he gets re-elected. However, a new proposal from Home Secretary…
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HTML5 Now YouTube Default Video Format
HTML5 has been around for a while now – the new webpage markup language has been making things easier online since early 2010 when Steve Jobs proclaimed that the method’s main competitor, Adobe Flash, would be rendered obsolete by the comparatively free and open HTML5. Following the media attention around HTML5 in 2010, companies and…
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Facebook & Instagram Down: Lizard Squad Not Responsible
Facebook, Instagram and a number of other social services all mysterious dropped out of action around the same time this morning (approx. 6am UK time) causing widespread panic across the internet. Many of those whose online social life had been temporarily disrupted for up to an hour took to Twitter (which was thankfully not affected)…