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Chrome Exploit Makes Video Piracy Easy
Security researchers have found an exploit in the DRM system of Google’s Chrome browser that makes it easy for pirates to rip encrypted videos straight from the web. David Livshits from Israel’s Cyber Security Research Center at Ben-Gurion University, and Alexandra Mikityuk of Telekom Innovation Laboratories in Berlin, Germany, found…
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Microsoft Wants To Prove That Edge Is Better For Your Battery
We all love browsing the internet, be it reading your favourite tech news site or watching cute cat videos online, sometimes your phone just doesn’t have what you need. When you have to be mobile and use some decent computing power, you’ll be looking at using your laptop. If you were…
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Microsoft Browsers Lose Users At Record Rate
Just a month after Google’s Chrome stole the top browser crown from Microsoft, IE and Edge have continued their downward spiral of popularity according to data released yesterday. As, Internet Explorer and Edge combined occupy 38.7% of the global user share, which is to say the percentage of all desktop…
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This Year Chrome Will Block Flash Content For Your Safety
Over the years, we’ve constantly reported on one security flaw after another when it comes to Flash. As a popular system to provide content to site viewers, websites often use the software for everything from videos to interactive content and with more and more bugs reported it would seem that the…
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Cortana Search Box Will Now Only Use Bing and Edge
In recent years, Microsoft has been less than subtle with the ways they push their products onto people. From the auto installation of windows 10 components to the annoying little popup reminding you to constantly update to the new OS. The next step would seem to affect those who actually use Windows…
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Material Design UI Overhaul In Chrome OS Version 50
A few months ago, we got a sneak peek at how the Chrome web browser would look following a design overhaul to match Google’s Material Design aesthetic. Now, Chrome version 50 has begun to be deployed to a number of platforms, but for Chrome OS users, this milestone release will…
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Microsoft Shows How Easily Chrome Extensions Can Be Added to Edge
Last month, Microsoft revealed that they had been working on the ability for their struggling Edge web browser to support the vast array of extensions that are available for Google’s Chrome. At an Edge developer summit earlier this week, Microsoft showed off just how far this technology had come already,…
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Gmail Says Use of Encrypted Emails Has Risen 25%
We use email every day, be it sending them for work or personal reasons or getting a thousand and one emails advertising everything from something you are interested in helping a foreign prince distribute their wealth. One way that you can be protected when sending emails is to send encrypted…
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Microsoft to Offer Tool for Porting Chrome Extensions to Edge
With the release of their new operating system, Windows 10, Microsoft has been keen on getting users to use their new software. Not just their operating system is new, though, with Edge replacing the demonised Internet explorer. One thing that has kept users from accepting and using the new browser…
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Gaming in Your Browser is About to Get Interesting With WebAssembly
WebAssembly, it may be something that most of you have never really heard of, but it’s going to have a huge impact on the way we use or web browsers. WebAssembly is a compiling technology, which is capable of bringing browser output closer to that of native machine code; not…
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Chrome Extension Caught Stealing Bitcoin
The Bitcoin exchange portal Bitstamp warned users over the weekend that a Google Chrome browser extension had been caught stealing Bitcoin and users should avoid the BitscoinWisdom Ads Remover extension that at the time still was available in the Play store. The good news is that Google since banned the…
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Google Experimenting With Recommended Articles in Chrome
When people hear search engine there are a few that jump out at them, with many instantly going straight to Google. The popular search engine has helped create everything from the web browser Chrome to self-driving cars. One of their latest endeavours will be to recommend articles directly into your web browser.…
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Get a Sneak Peak at Chrome’s New Material Design Makeover
It is no secret that Google is planning to polish the UI of their popular web browser, to bring it in-line with the company’s material design aesthetic. As it turns out, the facelift could be here sooner than thought, with the latest stable version of Chrome featuring several optional features…
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Vivaldi Browser is the True Successor to Opera
Many internet users, myself included, were disappointed by the death of the Opera browser. It was my primary browser for nearly a decade, as it was for many other smart internet users, but it only ever held around 5% of the browser market share. While, admittedly, I found the latter…
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Google Isn’t Happy With AVG’s Chrome Plugin
AVG have a give and take relationship when it comes to their attitudes and approach with security and privacy, from their creation of glasses that could hide you from facial recognition software to going so far as to start selling your browsing activity to companies. AVG Chrome plugin has been found…
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