China’s internet regulator has banned 65 dating and other match-making websites for spreading obscene content and allowing registration with false names, the country’s Xinhua state news agency reported on Tuesday. According to…
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Facebook’s new feature now lets users manage accounts even after their death
Facebook has rolled out a new feature that will let users decide who will manage their social networking account after they die. Previously, Facebook would freeze the deceased user’s account, while also…
Microsoft updates Xbox.com with new ‘Activity Feed’, ‘Suggested Friends’ features
Microsoft has added new features to the Xbox.com website including the Xbox Activity Feed and Suggested Friends feature. The New Activity Feed feature allows Xbox One users to scroll through all the…
KickAss Torrents knocked offline, but kickass.to saves the day
KickAss Torrents saw its Somalian domain kickass.so seized by authorities, but the site didn’t have to stay down for long as an alternate domain kickass.to was already operational and accessible. The Kickass.so…
Google reveals plans of incorporating accurate health information in search results
Google has revealed that is will soon be incorporating accurate health information in search results using its Knowledge Graph and will provide medical facts without requiring users to click beyond search results…
Google’s ‘right to be forgotten’ shouldn’t expand, expert panel advises
A panel of experts appointed by Google on an European court ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling ordering removal of personal information from its search results has advised the search engine giant to…
Twitter inks deal with Google to include tweets in search results
Twitter has inked a deal with Google that will see tweets getting displayed in the search giant’s results. According to a Bloomberg report, citing people with knowledge of the matter, tweets will…
Twitter expands advertising network; inks deals with Yahoo Japan, Flipboard
Twitter has expanded its advertising network by signing deals with Yahoo Japan and Flipboard wherein it plans to sell ads that run outside its own platform by syndicating its “promoted tweets” allowing…
YouTube ditches Flash in favour of HTML5 as default player
YouTube on Tuesday announced it has replaced Flash in favor of HTML5 video player as the default player on Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari 8, and beta versions of Firefox. The…
Microsoft’s OneDrive gets new photo-focused features and more
Microsoft has reportedly updated its OneDrive app for iOS with a raft of new photo-focused features and more. Douglas Pearce, OneDrive’s Group Program Manager, noted that major OneDrive update will include “the…
Google’s ‘Send Money in Gmail’ payments service lands in UK
Google’s ‘Send Money in Gmail’ payment service has finally made a UK debut. Using the new payment service, Brits will now be able to send and receive money directly from their desktop…
WorkMail: Amazon’s email, calendar services take on those from Microsoft, Google
Amazon has announced a new corporate email and calendar service dubbed WorkMail that will take on Microsoft’s Outlook and Google’s Gmail. Powered by Amazon’s cloud-based computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the…
Facebook: Tuesday outage was not result of a hacking attack
Facebook has confirmed that Tuesday outage was not the result of any hacking attack rather it was due to an internal fault. The Tuesday outage that affected the world’s most popular social…
Pinterest adds new ‘Guided Search’ feature to lure men
Image-based social network Pinterest has rolled out a new feature called Guided Search to lure men to the site. The new feature, dubbed Guided Search, will allow users to customize search results…
TalkTalk to turn on adult content filter by default
After UK broadband provider Sky, it’s now TalkTalk to have begun filtering adult content by default. TalkTalk has announced that it will turn on web filters by default for all undecided customers….