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Tech firms strike major deal with US gov to disclose data request figures
Update: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, and LinkedIn have issued the following statement announcing that they have withdrawn their lawsuits challenging the government’s gag order against FISA...
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President Obama calls for reigning in spy programs in State of the Union
President Obama, in his fifth State of the Union address, outlined his agenda for the next twelve months including initiating spying policy reforms and continuing to reign in US drones. Obama says…...
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Confining pronouns be gone! Facebook opens up custom gender options
Even if you’re not a huge fan of Zuckerberg and Co., Facebook has taken a giant step for social media today. A pro-diversity move! An announcement found on the Facebook Diversity page notes that the...
View ArticleXXL Airport Love | Video of the week
Men can put together rather amazing stunts when they want to impress women. Scandinavian sportswear manufacturer “XXL” show us the sporty version of this reality in an outstanding commercial. To make...
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Phishing just got personal – avoiding the social media trap
200 million LinkedIn users. 288 million Tweeters. 1 billion Facebookers. Social media is everywhere and with its rise, the IT landscape has drastically changed – and so has the nature of the cyber...
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Bitcoin ‘creator’ says he had nothing to do with it, so we’ll keep on searching
Just hours ago we thought that someone had unmasked the slippery Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin. Turns out that Newsweek might have just conducted an interview with a model train enthusiast from...
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Why do people use the internet? Because kittens, says web inventor
Happy birthday, world wide web! You information superhighway, you bastion of comments and … kittens? Grumpy ones indeed! Yes, fuzzy baby felines are apparently one of the primary, and unexpected,...
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Facebook announces it’s building drones armed with the internet
While everyone’s distracted by looking through virtual reality goggles like Oculus Rift, Facebook is preparing to fly drones overhead to beam the internet to new places. To fly above Turkey? This...
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Never mind the trolls: It’s time to fear the internet tolls
Imagine if the Mafia got hold of the internet. You’d still be able to do what you do today, but you’d have to do it via the Mafia’s chosen suppliers – and those suppliers would have to pay their...
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12 technologies that scared the world senseless
Surely this is safer than a train! Every time there’s a new technology, someone tells us that it heralds the end of the world as we know it. This year it’s social networks killing the art of...
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