A new research has established that more and more people are cutting down on sharing on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. A study co-authored by an Indian-origin researcher suggests that…
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Tories will enforce strict age-checking on pornographic websites if re-elected
Pornographic websites will face a ban if they fail to implement strict age-restriction controls under a future Conservative government, Culture Secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced. The Culture Secretary said that if the…
Microsoft to turn off Do Not Track (DNT) feature in future web browsers
Microsoft has announced the Do Not Track (DNT) feature will no longer be turned on by default in future web browser versions, including the upcoming Project Spartan. The Internet Explorer maker implemented…
Google won’t recognize CNNIC issued internet security certificates
Tech giant Google has announced that its web browser Chrome and other products will no longer recognize security certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). Announcement by the search…
Microsoft’s new web browser ‘Project Spartan’ released to beta testers
Microsoft’s replacement for its age-old web browser Internet Explorer dubbed ‘Project Spartan’ has been released to beta testers in a new preview build of the Redmond’s upcoming Windows 10 operating system. “Today,…
Facebook rolls out new ‘Scrapbook’ feature
Facebook on Tuesday rolled out a new feature dubbed ‘Scrapbook’, which will let parents organize and share photos of their kids on the social network. Using the new Scrapbook feature parents can…
Facebook tracking each and every visitor’s browsing activities, new research says
Facebook is tracking all visitors to its social networking site, even those who don’t have a Facebook account or those who have explicitly chosen to opt out of tracking, a study commissioned…
Twitter announces new media tool ‘Curator’
Twitter, on Tuesday, announced the launch of a new media tool dubbed ‘Curator’ which will let media organizations, publishers, and broadcasters to search, filter and embed real-time tweets and Vine videos into…
Google doodles 126th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower
Google is celebrating the 126th anniversary of the public opening of the Eiffel Tower with a doodle on its homepage. The doodle, by illustrator Floriane Marchix and which is in cartoon form,…
Github suffers ‘largest denial-of-service attack’ ever
Popular coding site Github recently suffered from a massive distributed-denial-of-service attack which the company claims is the largest denial-of-service attack in its history. Beginning Thursday, GitHub was hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…
Chrome crowned as most popular web browser in the US by federal government
The US federal government has crowned Google’s Chrome as the most popular web browser in the US based on the data from its Digital Analytics Program (DAP) over the course of last…
Facebook’s ‘On This Day’ feature will take users down the memory lane
Facebook has rolled out a new feature dubbed “On This Day” which will allow users to recall previous “memories” that were logged onto the social networking website on a given date. The…
Research: Remain sceptical about your email service’s password strength metre
A new research has warned that users of online services provided by Amazon, eBay, Gmail, Microsoft and others should be sceptical about password strength metres as they are not all created equally….
Research: Teenagers not really thinking about privacy on social media
Teenagers are not really thinking about privacy on social media platforms or at least not thinking about it like most adults, a new study has revealed. Researchers from the Pennsylvania State University…
Twitter rolls out new feature to report threatening tweets to Police
Twitter has rolled out a new anti-harassment feature which will make it easier for users to report threatening tweets to the police. Users will be able to report a threatening tweet by…