Last year, YouTube's removal of community annotations was seen by some as a blow to global users who have relied on it as a translation tool.In its absence, viewers have had to rely on...
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Yahoo and AOL, Early Internet Pioneers, Are Sold to Private Equity Firm
Yahoo and AOL, kings of the early internet, saw their fortunes decline as Silicon Valley raced ahead to create new digital platforms. Google replaced Yahoo. AOL was supplanted by cable giants.Verizon...
Google was one of the first big companies to move its workforce out of the office in the early days of the pandemic, but now it's calling employees back. Some of them said they don't intend to...
The Pentagon gave control of 175 million IP addresses to a mysterious company
The US military resorted to an unusual strategy to check security vulnerabilities in its networks, they gave up control of a major source of Internet IP addresses, and handed it over to the company...
Personal Data for 1.3 million Clubhouse users reportedly leaked online
In a new "piracy massacre" that hits social media, a report published by the US site "Cyber News" reported that the personal data of at least 1.3 million users of the "Clubhouse" application had been...
Sources told "Bloomberg" agency that "Twitter" recently held talks to acquire the "Clubhouse" application for $ 4 billion.The sources revealed that the discussions between the two sides are no longer...
During the past few days, information has been revealed about the leakage of personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users around the world.More specifically, over 533 million...
The US Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Google that its use of Oracle's proprietary Java API code elements to build an Android operating system does not violate federal copyright law."Copying the...
Hackers Publish Thousands of CCTV videos after they Breached US Verkada
A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside...
Apps that Collect the Largest volume of your Personal Data
Experts from the company "pCloud" believe that "Instagram" application transfers the largest volume of personal data of its users to third parties, more than others.These experts came to the...
Data of 21 Million VPN User Leaked for Sale Online
Data of 21 million VPN users via Android devices had been leaked to the Internet.According to media reports, "data for users of VPN services through applications such as SuperVPN, GeckoVPN and...
Alphabet Inc’s Google fired staff scientist Margaret Mitchell on Friday, in a new move that has sparked divisions within the company over academic freedom and diversity that began since the sack of...
Both features rely on a smartphone camera that measures the breathing rate by monitoring the rise and fall of the user's chestGoogle is adding the heart rate and respiratory monitoring feature to the...
The best free anti-virus softwires For advanced threat protection in 2021
Not a day goes by without thousands of new viruses and malware appearing on the scene, to the extent that the "AV-TEST" institute records more than 350 thousand viruses and malware daily, some of...
WhatsApp Delays Privacy Changes Amid User Backlash
Facebook's WhatsApp postponed the introduction of new business features; After a backlash against user data sharing practices.The delay marks a setback for WhatsApp's plan to raise revenue by...
You Are Where You Live: Why Location Privacy Matters
Back in the late 1980s, two groups of geographers went into civil war. On the left were largely quantitative geographers excited about the rise of Geographic Information Systems (GIS; think Google...
Many services from Alphabet Inc, including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive, were down for thousands of users across the globe on Monday.Google users in the US, Europe, India and other parts of the...
Microsoft employee robbed $10 million in store credit
Volodymyr Kvashuk, a former software engineer at Microsoft from Ukraine, is sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing more than $ 10 million over two years.Kvashuk used Microsoft Store...
WhatsApp announced the Feature that millions of users have been waiting for
According to a blog published by "WhatsApp", the new feature that began to be tested for some users will allow writing messages that will disappear by themselves after 7 days. "WhatsApp...
The answer is not that simple, so let’s break it down. First, it’s important to note that YouTubers are able to leverage their following and make money off of a number of different streams of...