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How to Clean Up Your Computer or Laptop after the Holidays

How to Clean Up Your Computer or Laptop after the Holidays

Best Software Sep 19, 2024

Your laptop most probably carries more than just travel photos and memories from your holidays. Using it to stay in touch, watch movies, or navigate your way around an unknown location during your vacation adventures, it’s no surprise that digital clutter builds up. From downloading huge files and accessing unfamiliar…

Holiday Video Disasters: Common Issues and How to Solve Them

Holiday Video Disasters: Common Issues and How to Solve Them

Best Software Aug 28, 2024

The arrival of summer is often accompanied by cameras ready to capture every special moment of our vacations. However, too often we discover upon returning home that those memories have various types of errors. From videos that won’t play to corrupt files that prevent us from reliving our experiences, it’s…

August 24 Tech news roundup: Windows will remove Control Panel soon, Chrome gets a critical security update, Access Apple Podcasts on any browser

August 24 Tech news roundup: Windows will remove Control Panel soon, Chrome gets a critical security update, Access Apple Podcasts on any browser

News Aug 24, 2024

Windows 11 Control Panel will be removed soon Microsoft has confirmed it will remove Control Panel from Windows 11. This has been coming for a long time, since 2015 to be precise. A recent update to a document on Microsoft’s website reveals that the legacy app is being deprecated, in…

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Disney Drops YouTube Star PewDiePie After Anti-Semitism ‘Joke.’

Disney Drops YouTube Star PewDiePie After Anti-Semitism ‘Joke.’

NewsSocial Media February 15, 2017

Disney severs ties to world’s highest paid YouTuber over allegations of anti-Semitism. PewDiePie, one of the world’s most popular and enduring social media stars and who has 53 million subscribers on YouTube has landed himself in hot water over ‘humorous’ content he released in January, that he says has... Read more
Twitter Releases New Anti-Abuse Tools

Twitter Releases New Anti-Abuse Tools

NewsSocial Media February 13, 2017

Twitter has announced more changes intended to limit the amount of abuse on its network, but is it too little too late? Twitter has announced three main changes to its platforms to challenge online abuse at some point in the “coming weeks”. The move comes as the platform continues to... Read more
Facebook And Google Join With French Media To Fight ‘Fake News’

Facebook And Google Join With French Media To Fight ‘Fake News’

NewsSocial Media February 7, 2017

Google and Facebook have announced partnership ahead of French presidential elections in April. Both Facebook and Google will work with French media brands to fact check and flag hoaxes, conspiracy theories or propaganda; more commonly referred to as “fake news”, in a move that mirrors similar efforts already under way in the... Read more
Trump Inauguration Breaks Live Streaming Records

Trump Inauguration Breaks Live Streaming Records

NewsSocial Media January 27, 2017

Here Are Some Viewing Stats The New President Won’t Have To Defend. While Donald J Trump’s public ascendancy to President of the United States of America may – or may not – have gathered quite as many people as Barack Obama’s inauguration, it did manage to break records when... Read more
Twitter Forces Users To Follow Trump

Twitter Forces Users To Follow Trump

NewsSocial Media January 25, 2017

Apology from Twitter after 500,000 users made to follow @POTUS In a major transition of power “oops,” Twitter accidentally forced more than half a million people to follow Donald Trump’s new @POTUS account when it made the shift from being President Barack Obama’s @POTUS account. The well-intentioned yet seriously... Read more
Facebook Germany To Tackle Fake News Ahead Of Election

Facebook Germany To Tackle Fake News Ahead Of Election

NewsSocial Media January 20, 2017

Facebook has announced plans that it will introduce new measures to reduce the dissemination of fake news stories in Germany ahead of this September’s national elections. The move comes hot on the heels of last November’s US Presidential election where ‘Fake News’ shared on social media sites has been... Read more
Zuckerberg To Visit Every State In The US: The Start Of A Political Career?

Zuckerberg To Visit Every State In The US: The Start Of A Political Career?

NewsSocial Media January 6, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, has given more credence to growing rumours that he is planning an eventual move into political life, by announcing that he intends to travel across the US in 2017, and meet people in every state. The news was released in a Facebook... Read more
Facebook, WhatsApp, And The (Alleged) Misleading Of The EU

Facebook, WhatsApp, And The (Alleged) Misleading Of The EU

NewsSocial Media December 28, 2016

Facebook has found itself formally accused by the European Commission’s merger and anti-trust watchdog of misleading EU oversight regulators over its 2014 takeover of WhatsApp. The European Commission says it was misled when Facebook said it was impossible to match users’ Facebook and WhatsApp accounts. In August, this year... Read more
Fake News Spreads To Law Enforcement Agencies

Fake News Spreads To Law Enforcement Agencies

NewsSocial Media December 26, 2016

The onslaught of fake news has reached epidemic proportions, so much so that a number of social media sites are taking action. Once limited to just satire sites – and a few sites whose satire wasn’t quite witty enough to be recognized as satire – the reach of fake... Read more
Mark Zuckerberg’s Own Personal Jarvis

Mark Zuckerberg’s Own Personal Jarvis

NewsSocial Media December 22, 2016

What’s better than an Alexa or a Google Home virtual assistant? Building one yourself, making it meet all your personal specs, having it customized to interact with all the members of your household, and getting to name it Jarvis after Tony Stark’s VA in Ironman. Of course, when you’re... Read more
Trump Dumps Twitter From Tech Meeting Over Emoji

Trump Dumps Twitter From Tech Meeting Over Emoji

NewsSocial Media December 22, 2016

Donald Trump isn’t even officially the President yet, but he’s already affecting the economic statuses of major corporations through his late-night social media criticism. Both Boeing and Lockheed Martin suffered stock dips after critical rants from the PEOTUS, but the most Twitter-addicted politician in history took aim at Twitter... Read more
US Tech Giants Not Doing Enough To Combat On-Line Hate Speech

US Tech Giants Not Doing Enough To Combat On-Line Hate Speech

NewsSocial Media December 9, 2016

According to new research by the EU, US tech firms only manage to remove less than half of all confirmed reports of hate speech within one day. The news comes as the European Commission decided to investigate whether the tech giant companies were delivering on the promise they made... Read more
Facebook Develops Tool To Censor Posts Based On Location

Facebook Develops Tool To Censor Posts Based On Location

NewsSocial Media November 30, 2016

There’s never been a better time to install a VPN, especially if you’ve come to rely on your social media feeds to discover news articles that matter to you. According to a new report, Facebook has developed a tool that will let third-parties (ie, the government) censor posts based... Read more
Facebook Details How It Will Fight ‘Misinformation’ And Fake News Stories

Facebook Details How It Will Fight ‘Misinformation’ And Fake News Stories

NewsSocial Media November 25, 2016

With controversy still rampant over how big a role fake Facebook news stories played in the US Presidential election, company founder Mark Zuckerberg has publicly laid out new options for how the social network could handle ‘misinformation.’ Current President, Barrack Obama singled out Facebook and websites for the impact... Read more
Twitter Suspends Alt-Right Accounts…And Its CEO

Twitter Suspends Alt-Right Accounts…And Its CEO

NewsSocial Media November 25, 2016

You gotta love the foibles and missteps that go along with any tech company, but this one is near the top of the list for ironic–and hopefully laughter-inducing–mistakes. Twitter has been on a rampage suspending accounts that now violate its “play nice” rules, and according to TechCrunch, its own... Read more
Body Shaming Playboy Model Charged Over Pensioner Body Shaming On Social Media

Body Shaming Playboy Model Charged Over Pensioner Body Shaming On Social Media

NewsSocial Media November 10, 2016

Playboy Model Dani Mathers has been charged by the authorities in Los Angeles with invasion of privacy for taking a photo of an elderly woman changing in a gym locker room and then posting it to social media. The photo, posted to Snapchat included the following derogatory comment about... Read more
Facebook Ad Blocker Blocking Sees Ad Revenue Jump 18%

Facebook Ad Blocker Blocking Sees Ad Revenue Jump 18%

NewsSocial Media November 4, 2016

Facebook has seen its desktop ad revenue grow by 18% compared to this time last year, and has said that bypassing ad blockers is the root reason for the increase in profits. “On ad blocking, in terms of the impact I would just point out that this quarter we... Read more
The End Of The Vine


The End Of The Vine


NewsSocial MediaVideo November 2, 2016

Well that’s that then, it’s official, Twitter is Vinally ending its popular video looping app, Vine. It was the Vinest of time, it was the worst of times
 Vine, which Twitter,  the social media company bought for a guesstimated $30 million in 2012 that plays 6 second loops in... Read more
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