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Why search is no longer all about Google
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Microsoft chairman John Thompson explains why CEO Satya Nadella is poised to win the cloud wars
He had to downgrade the importance of Microsoft's flagship products: Windows and Office. And he had to overhaul the company's culture to make it happen.
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Trump can’t block Twitter critics: Court
A federal appeals court ruled that Donald Trump cannot legally block users on Twitter based on their political differences with him, affirming a lower court decision.
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Twitter Announces Plan To Label Rule-Breaking Tweets From Government Officials, Politicians And Presidents
Twitter said extreme cases – direct threats of violence or calls to commit violence against an individual – are unlikely to be considered in the public interest.
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Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch.
Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week. Here’s why Firefox is better.
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YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
The company also said that channels that “repeatedly brush up against our hate speech policies,” but don’t violate them outright, would be removed from YouTube’s advertising program, which allows channel owners to share in the advertising revenue their videos generate.
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Paying to promote your tweets won’t do much for your personal brand
Why do people spend money on them?
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YouTube is changing how subscriber counts are displayed, possibly shifting its culture
Sites like Social Blade may be impacted
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Google uses Gmail to track a history of things you buy — and it’s hard to delete
Gmail's "Purchases" page collects and sorts out all of your online shopping and in-app purchase receipts.
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WhatsApp exploit let attackers install government-grade spyware on phones
WhatsApp did not name NSO in its remarks, but its suspicions seem clear
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Instagram Will Use AI To Filter Anti-Vax Content
The company plans to police anti-vaccine misinformation by flagging it with pop-ups similar to those it uses for content related to self-harm.
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Facebook redesigns iOS and web, dark mode coming soon
Facebook shows off major redesign coming to iOS and desktop including dark mode for web, Instagram getting new ‘Create Mode,’ more
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'Avengers' Porn Searches Went Up 2,912 Percent in Anticipation of 'Endgame'
While Captain Marvel is out there trying to beat Thanos, Marvel fans are out there beating something else.
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Teen hits Apple with $1B lawsuit over facial recognition arrest
The 18-year-old says he was wrongly accused of stealing from Apple stores.
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Internet porn to require ID check
Porn fans will soon have to pass an age identification check to view their favourite adult content online in a bid to stop children from being exposed to the racy material.
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp go down across US, Europe, parts of Asia
All Facebook-owned social media platforms went down across parts of the US, Europe and Asia on Sunday, raising concerns about the social network’s stranglehold on billions of users.
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Hundreds of millions of Facebook records exposed on Amazon cloud servers
Researchers found two third-party Facebook app developers had been storing user data on a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services server.
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Change your Facebook password right now
Facebook left millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company admitted after a security researcher exposed the lapse.
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Facebook Apologizes for Outages, Says It Has Resolved ‘Server Configuration’ Error That Led to Access Problems
Facebook first acknowledged the problems in a tweet Wednesday at 1:49 p.m. ET
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