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Steam Adds ‘Explicit Adult Content’ Filters In Your Game Searches
Steam Adds ‘Explicit Content’ Filter In Your Game Searches For years now, Valve has struggled with how it handles adult content on its Steam platform. It has held a very difficult and often contradictory position as to how it addresses games that contain nudity. Be it full-frontal or sex scenes…
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FaceApp Apologizes for ‘Hot’ Filter Preset Which Whitens User’s Skin
Viral face-tuning software FaceApp allows users to apply unconventional filters to photos of human faces, providing a gender changing, smiling, aging, de-aging filter and more. FaceApp utilizes a neural network to change the person’s facial characteristics, drawing from millions of photos in a database which the algorithm matches and edits…
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Facebook Fake News Filter Campaign Launched in France
Following a fake news filter campaign similar to the initiative launched in the United States last year, Facebook is cracking down on fake news reporting in France, ahead of the presidential election to be held later in April 2017. A similar initiative by Facebook was also set up in Germany last…
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South Carolina Bill Seeks to Put Mandatory Porn Filter on All PCs
Just before the Christmas break, Republican South Carolina State representative Bill Chumley has pre-filed a bill that would install a porn filter on all internet capable devices in the state. The mandatory porn filter is just part of his larger “Human Trafficking Prevention Act” and further elaborates that a $20…
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Yahoo Taught a Machine to Detect Abuse Online
The internet is a wide and open place, capable of catching the imaginations and dreams of millions of people with videos, pictures and words alike. The problem is that not everyone uses the internet to bring together people, instead using it to spread hate and break apart groups. The people…
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How To Stop Cheats? Shut Down The Internet!
When it comes to the internet, the idea is that no single point failing can ever stop it with node after node picking up the slack from a single point failing. So how do you stop people cheating using the internet? Iraq seems to have found the answer, you shut…
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Peanut Shells Used To Design a New Air-Purifying Filter
A hot topic within society today is the quality of air that we breathe; major cities including London have found that pollution is quickly on the rise and this has led to the associated health problems for citizens. Air purification research is always advancing to the point whereby the research…
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Virgin Media Spam Filter is Blocking Legitimate E-Mails
Not so long ago, Google stopped providing their e-mail service to ISPs which forced them to look elsewhere for an alternative. As a result, Virgin Media’s new e-mail platform doesn’t have a sophisticated and accurate e-mail filtering service which resulted in many genuine messages being undelivered. Many customers have already let…
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Proposed “Online Safety Bill” Being Debated In the House Of Lords
Guess whose back? Indeed after a short hiatus I am back and raring to be creative concerning my written articles for eTeknix, although, in reality it has only been around 6 weeks since my last piece. So, what to write? I know, let’s delve into the proposed “Online Safety Bill”…
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Yahoo Labs Finds Filtered Photos Are More Popular
A new paper from Yahoo Labs “Why We Filter Our Photos and How It Impacts Engagement” delves into its findings after analyzing 7.6million photos on Flickr. They found that filters boost engagement on Flickr. Thanks to social photo sharing apps the majority of the photos we seem to see these days…
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Latest Doom Mod Adds Instagram Filters and a Selfie Stick!?
Doom may be 22 years old, but the modding community just doesn’t want to give up on this game! Not only have we currently got the stunning Brutal Doom mod bringing the game up to a more modern and considerably more violent standard, now we’ve also got something a little…
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TalkTalk Forces Porn Filter on Customers
UK ISP TalkTalk is activating an adult content filter by default for all its users, thanks to prompting by tech-illiterate Prime Minister David Cameron. Under TalkTalk’s HomeSafe system, any website deemed to be hosting adult content will be blocked, unless users opt out. According to the Alex Birtles, writing on…
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UK Government Adult Website Filter Issues To Be Fixed
Recently the UK government flipped the switch and activated their adult content filter, which would prevent many users here in the UK from seeing adult sites, needing to opt out of the scheme to access them. However, the band didn’t just block certain adult sites, but it also blocked copyright…
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CNN and Twitter Become Official Partners, Said To ‘Revolutionize’ News Gatherings
It appears that head Twitter’s head of news, Vivian Schiller, has announced their first project, namely a partnership with CNN and the New York startup Dataminr. It is said that the partnership, along with Dataminr, will help journalists cover breaking news and making sense of the flood of public information…
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