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Microsoft Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Discord
If you have any involvement within a particular online community or game, the chances are that you almost certainly have a Discord account. It is, after all, a very good application and allows people to connect very effectively through either a PC or smart device. In something that may potentially…
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Reddit to Introduce Chat Room Feature!
I had thought that the days of internet chat rooms were long dead. It has, after all, been nearly 10-years now since media hysteria caused many companies to move away from them due to fears of grooming or other inappropriate activities. Whether those were legitimate concerns is a matter of…
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Chatroom Experiment Charges You A Penny Per Character
Expensive Chat I can’t personally remember the last time I visited a chatroom. It was probably back in the days of Yahoo Chat and given that they shut that service down 7 years ago I think it is something of a testament to how the internet has changed. That is,…
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Steam Introduces Massive Overhaul to Built-in Chat Client
Keeping Up With Discord Steam has rolling out a massive update, bringing with it a massive overhaul to their built-in chat system. This new system which has been in beta for a while, even has new text and voice features. Most noticeable of all however, is how closely it resembles…
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Easy Collaboration with Synology’s DSM 6.2 Features
Introduction Synology released the latest version of their NAS operating system, Disk Station Manager, at the end of May. Today, I’m taking a closer look at the file and document collaboration features. DSM 6.2 Advances There aren’t a lot of new things in DSM 6.2, it’s more a “Let’s do…
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Google Voice App Receives First Update in Five Years
A new version has rolled out updating the Google Voice app for Android, iOS and web plugin, breaking a five year update drought which is unprecedented among Google’s stable of apps. With over 3.5 million users, Google Voice is far from dead although why Google chose to ignore it for…
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Synology Announces Eight Pre-Release Applications for Beta Testing
Synology has started a new beta program and this time it isn’t for the DSM operating system itself but rather some of its apps. The new beta program includes eight pre-release beta applications and Synology is inviting beta testers to take part in their latest software development. To show their…
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Heroes of the Storm Player Threatens Blizzard with AK-47
When it comes to competitive games, you often feel a bit riled up when playing against other human people and sometimes that competitive (and somewhat violent) nature can slip out in words. Go looking to throw that violent nature at people and it quickly escalates, just like one player of Heroes of…
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Classic Yahoo Messenger to be Terminated This Year
In the day of electronic communications, we’ve seen our messages change from a telephone call to text on your phone and now you can send images and documents from your phone without a second thought. First introduced in 1998, Yahoo has had a messaging application for years but it would…
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Want to Work on League Of Legends? Best Avoid Being Toxic in Chat-logs
When it comes to online games, Riot isn’t one to shy away from their problems with toxic behaviour in-game. With the tribunal allowing the community to oversee players who have been reported, putting an emphasis on the community supporting the community. Now it would seem that the company is looking…
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Police In Canada Used BlackBerry’s Key To Read Encrypted BBM Messages
When it comes to mobile phones Blackberry pride themselves on their security, with many companies taking up the device as their go-to model thanks to its support and security features. It now appears that those security features may not have been so secure after all with the Royal Canadian Mounted…
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Facebook Messenger Introduces Dropbox and Video Chat Heads
Facebook Messenger is a system built to help communicate through the popular social network, but the latest features look to bring it closer to email with Facebook Messenger introducing dropbox features and even adding a chat head imagine to your video calls. The dropbox features allow you to add in…
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Taco Bell is Looking at a Chat Bot to Take Your Orders
During those late nights when you just feel like a quick bite to eat and your favourite show before hitting the hay, we all feel like quickly ordering something in and enjoying the greasy food before the days over. Taco Bell are currently testing a new way for you to…
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ASUS Strix 2.0 Multi-Platform Gaming Headset Review
Introduction It’s been almost a year since we put the feature-packed ASUS STRIX DSP Gaming Headset through its paces, and it certainly did well in our review. The latest from ASUS, the STRIX 2.0 may not have as many features as its big brother, but with a more affordable price…
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VTech Leak Contained Headshots of Kids and Chat Logs
Recently it came to light that VTech had been hacked, potentially revealing thousands of emails and usernames. The hacker has revealed more information though on what was contained and revealed within the hack, the information which was revealed yesterday. The data that was obtained from the hack contained around 4.8…
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