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Twitter “Hate Map” Outs Racists And Homophobes In The US
Twitter’s long been one of the favourite sources of information for researchers studying people’s trends and perceptions, and for good reason – with millions of users spread across the world sending out billions of tweets every single day, there are few more easily accessible sources of data that represent the voice of just about every ...
Julian Assange Claims US Cyber Spying Threatens Latin America
Julian Assange has come out with yet another verbal attack on the US, this time warning that Latin American nations are at risk of losing their sovereignty due to their dependence on American telecommunications technologies and companies. The WikiLeaks founder issued his warning during a videoconference at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay, ...
Yahoo Stays “Cool” On Tumblr Acquisition
Yahoo’s biggest problem as it tries to reinvent itself into an entity capable of challenging Google and Facebook is that it simply isn’t a ‘cool’ brand anymore. Hence, the majority of its users are a bunch of old farts, as its chief financial officer admitted at a Boston conference earlier this week: “One of our ...
How To Protect Your Yahoo Mail Against Hackers
Almost three weeks after we first reported on Yahoo’s inability to protect its customers from being hacked, it seems that the email provider is no closer to coming up with an effective solution – or even admitting that it has a problem in the first place. You can read my original post on the subject ...
Facebook Hacked Again: Only This Time, Anyone Can Do It
You might think that hacking Facebook accounts is something that only those with advanced technical skills would be able to do. After all, isn’t Facebook supposed to have all kinds of sophisticated security systems in place to protect user’s accounts? Yep, it sure does, but a group of researchers at Rutger University have come across ...
Google’s Auto-Complete Just Ain’t Funny Anymore
It might come in handy for shaving precious seconds off the time it takes to type out our search queries, but Google’s auto-complete algorithm is proving to be pretty contentious from a legal point of view. Earlier this week, a German court ruled against the search engine giant when it said that libelous auto-completes violate ...
Microsoft’s YouTube App for Windows Phone Has Seriously Pissed Off Google
Last week, a ‘proper’ version of the YouTube app finally landed on the Windows Phone. Billed as version 3.0, the app brought with it a number of awesome features specific to Windows Phone users, including the ability to download videos to view them offline, play videos under lockscreen, pin channels and a whole lot more. ...
Firefox 21 Arrives: A Healthier, Faster & More Social Browsing Experience
Mozilla has just come out with a new Firefox 21 open source browser release, just six weeks after its previous update, including at least eight security fixes, three of which were rated as being critical. In addition, the new browser comes with a range of new features including more social media integration and a new ...
3 Ways Big Data’s Helping to Eradicate Disease
After falling victim to an extremely rare kind of vocal chord paralysis that’s preventing him from giving the kind of long-winded keynote speeches we’re used to hearing from CEOs, Google’s Larry Page has announced a plan to gather data from people suffering from similar conditions. His hope is that by crowdsourcing the limited amount of ...
Windows Blue Now Officially “Windows 8.1,” Available for Free This Summer
Microsoft has made an announcement about its soon-to-be-released “Windows Blue” update, officially naming the next iteration of its operating system as “Windows 8.1”. More important than the labeling however, is that Microsoft intends to make the update available for free to all Windows 8 users via a download in the Windows Store. The news came ...