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Showdown over Facebook accountability following Cambridge Analytica scandal. It’s an understatement to say that Mark Zuckerberg is going through a bit of a rough patch. His company has been called out on the worldwide stage for multiple privacy violations and data breaches, secret projects involving users’ medical records have come... Read more
Apple To Ditch Intel Chips In Macs From 2020?
News April 10, 2018
Rumours circulate that Apple will use its own chips. Rumors are circulating in tech circles that Apple is allegedly about to announce that it will stop using Intel processors in its Mac computer line from as early as 2020. Instead Apple is reportedly intending to replace Intel chips with... Read more
Russian Government Tries To Ban Telegram Encrypted Privacy App
MobileNewsSocial Media April 10, 2018
Roskomnadzor, the Russian state’s communications authority and regulator, moves to block Telegram messaging service after company refuses to hand over decryption keys to private messages. The state agency had ordered Telegram to provide back door keys to all of its encrypted messages. The request was denied by the tech giant, partly... Read more
Public vote features for first time. The finalists for this year’s entry into the Video Game Hall of Fame, by ‘The Strong’ Museum in Rochester, New York, have been announced, and in a change from previous years, the museum has included one game for the hall of fame, based... Read more
New two-second videos offer GIF-like feature for dating app. Online dating has gone from a “path of last resort” for desperate singles looking to cast a broader net to becoming the go-to way to meet like-minded and romantically interested people. It’s a multi-billion dollar a year industry with fierce... Read more
Survey claims that women like shopping online more than men, but men still prefer bricks and mortar shopping. Seeing and touching items is more important for men, apparently. According to newly released study by tech shopping consultancy, First Insight, the female of the species are increasingly more likely to rely... Read more
Microsoft announces ‘historic milestone’ and has developed Artificial Intelligence that can translate Chinese News to English as accurately as any human. According to the Microsoft blog, researchers at the company’s US and Asian labs believe they have created the first machine translation system that can accurately translate sentences of... Read more
The ability to download software and other media has undoubtedly changed the way those products are consumed. But are the days of physical media really over for good? Almost every type of media we humans enjoy consuming has now been digitised and are available – either for free or... Read more
Cyclists Need Beacons So Self Driving Cars Will See Them
News April 2, 2018
An industry expert has warned that in the future cyclists will have to be equipped with ‘bicycle to vehicle’ beacons so that they will be ‘visible’ to autonomous vehicles. Giving a keynote speech at the Symposium on the Future Networked Car, 2018, – a part of the Geneva Motor... Read more
True Story: YouTube’s ban on gun bloggers has led them to post on PornHub. Just don’t Google ‘guns on Pornhub’, trust me…but if you do, you might be surprised to find that recently firearms are being used as more than sexual props.This follows the news that YouTube has announced... Read more
China Tariff Balancing Act Goes Tech
News March 29, 2018
US tech companies win changes in bill to limit China access to technology. US relations with China have been strained in recent weeks, largely stemming from tariffs and legislation that have been put forth to prevent China from making as much of a profit via US goods and services.... Read more
Cybercrime syndicate infiltrated over 100 financial institutions in 40 countries hacking banks and ATMs via malware. For the past five years, the gang of hackers known as Carbanak has been targeting banks around the world, stealing well over $1 billion in total. Europol, the pan European police agency have said they’ve... Read more
Mozilla 2018 roadmap shows ad blocking coming to Firefox Mozilla, the company behind popular Internet browser, Firefox, has revealed details of its ad ‘filtering’ plans for 2018. While lots of its intentions are mired in technical terminology, some of it also of interest to the average Firefox user, the... Read more
Bringing Medical Tech To The Streets
News March 26, 2018
Trial sees health checks in local barbers. Non-traditional medicine is making waves for upending an unnecessarily expensive industry, one that can feel like a case of “the treatment is worse than the disease”. High costs of treatment and insurmountable prescription costs, coupled with hours of missed time off of... Read more
Even If It Isn’t Their Default Browser Even if it isn’t their default browser. Microsoft looks for ‘feedback’ regarding new change that will open all email links in the much maligned Edge Browsers, regardless of users personal choice. Microsoft has revealed that it’s to trial another attempt to get... Read more
Upcoming GDPR rules mean data compliance will be mandatory. In the digital age, information is the new hot-ticket currency. Often, companies, third-parties, and even cybercriminals would rather get their hands on users’ data than money, since the potential payoff from having access to sensitive information could be exponentially higher... Read more
Fatal accident likely to put collaboration on hold. Earlier this week, embattled Uber announced it would be suspending all self-driving vehicle tests in light of its car killing an Arizona woman. Some early reports indicate the car may have not attempted to slow down as it approached the pedestrian, despite... Read more
IBM Builds Computer The Size Of A Grain Of Salt
News March 22, 2018
And it costs less than 10 cents to make! IBM has unveiled what it says is the world’s smallest computer. Each of the new computers will be roughly the size of a grain of salt, and each one will cost less than 10 US cents to make. But no-one is... Read more