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A new anonymizing internet tool designed by MIT and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is soon to be released, and claims it has fixed Tor’s blind spots. Riffle takes the best bits of Tor and the basic principles that function in the background, and have created a new... Read more
As technology grows in every area of the public education market–from the computer lab to the classroom, from kindergarten to high school–new concerns appear virtually every day. Schools used to combat their fears of privacy and outright misuse by imposing strict regulations on the software that powered the tech.... Read more
Welcome to Jupiter, Juno. NASA aren’t the only ones celebrating the Juno spacecraft’s successful arrival at Jupiter this week. In a surprise move, and also that someone at Google was obviously hoping and anticipating that Juno wouldn’t miss or indeed slam right into Jupiter, literally minutes after Juno entered... Read more
Mozilla has come out and said what many browser developers have been grumbling and complaining about for years: That a high proportion of websites were only designed to work with one specific browser in mind, and that that’s a mistake. While the modern device and browser landscape presents many... Read more
Firefox now lets you browse and log into accounts under different identities in order to keep your accounts separate. It’s a pain to have to constantly log in and out of different internet accounts–say, your Gmail or your Amazon account. And if those separate accounts have a specific reason... Read more
BullGuard And The World’s First IoT Security Scanner
InternetPrivacy and SecuritySoftware Reviews June 15, 2016
The internet of things is awesome…and BullGuard aims to keep it that way by keeping hackers out of your connected devices with its IoT Scanner. The Internet of Things has steadily taken off, perhaps not in the overnight world-changing manner that many people hoped, but in the ongoing rollout... Read more
The developers at Mozilla have a brand-new feature to incorporate in their latest Firefox update, one that has them calling it the single biggest innovation the browser’s team has made. Dubbed “Electrolysis,” the E10S feature will essentially split Firefox into two separate processes, one for UI and one for... Read more
Google has banned an extension of its Chrome browser which was being used to identify Jewish names on the internet by surrounding them with three sets of brackets, or parentheses. The brackets, known as (((echoes))), have become notorious in recent years in far right social media as an anti-Semitic... Read more
Google has gone to France’s highest court in a bid to overturn a decision by the French Data Protection Authority over the ‘Right to be forgotten,’ to all of its domains. Google has filed an appeal with France’s equivalent of the Supreme Court, the Conseil d’Etat, to reverse the... Read more
Sometimes, a tech company just can’t catch a break. Google’s unacceptable inability to please 100% of the tech users of the world has never been more apparent (and apparently, more poignant) than with the news that it will no longer allow Chrome users to use the “backspace” key on... Read more
Adobe’s latest creation, an app called Spark, allows the creation of three different kinds of web-optimized content: Posts, Pages, and Videos. As a whole, software or apps that claim to produce professional results with nothing more than a drag-and-drop skillset have not always proven themselves to be trustworthy. After... Read more
For a few years now Google Chrome and Flash have had an interesting relationship to say the least. With flash providing so many security risks. Google has finally decided that they want to make browsing safer for their users, by getting rid of Flash altogether and instead directing focus... Read more
To many of us tech users, wifi is now right up there with coffee and oxygen on the list of daily demands. Studies have already shown that free internet access is a major consideration for most travelers when choosing a hotel, and small businesses have been encouraged for years... Read more
Google’s Chrome Browser Overtakes Internet Explorer For The First Time
InternetNewsSoftware Reviews May 6, 2016
Google Chrome has officially overtaken Internet Explorer to become the world’s most used web browser. The news finally ends Microsoft’s default Windows browser’s almost two-decade long dominance as the leading internet browser. Haven’t I heard this one before? Probably. Over the last few years, quite a few tech analytics... Read more
From last week, Microsoft has ended what many people consider the easiest way to search the internet; by blocking third party searches that go through Bing and the Cortana digital personal assistant. The move was announced late last week in a blog post by the General Manager of Search... Read more
Of course it goes without saying that if you own an android phone or tablet already then you’ve probably used UC Browser already, and quite liked it. UC Browser has been one of the go-to browsers of choice of android users for a number of years, and now it’s... Read more
Chrome Plugin, Focusbook, Helps You Avoid Social Media Drain
InternetSocial MediaSoftware Reviews April 25, 2016
A new Chrome plugin helps you fight the urge to waste time on Facebook. We’ve all been there: “I gotta look up that guy’s phone number from my Facebook messages for this report.” Three hours and eighty-two cat videos later–along with a heated argument over the new Star Wars... Read more
Well it had to happen eventually. But last week Google officially announced that support for its Chrome browser on older (legacy) operating systems has finally happened. The news came the day after Google rolled out the latest version of the browser, Chrome 50, with the following blog post: “Today,... Read more