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YouTube Test Making Comments Automatically Hidden
YouTube Tests New Comment ‘Block’ Feature Over the last few years, video hosting website YouTube has been facing more and more pressure to try and address some of the biggest concerns surrounding its content. It isn’t even necessarily just the content either as some of the user interactions on it…
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YouTube Introduce New Rules Restricting Kids From Streaming
YouTube Restricts Kids Streaming Over the last year or so, live streaming via YouTube has proven to be a very popular (and convenient) means of getting a video quickly out there on the internet. While it hasn’t been perfect, it seems that this will form a major part of the…
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Twitch Introduces ‘Dress Code’ For Streamers
Twitch Twitch, for many, has provided an excellent home for watching gaming videos or indeed, for the more adventurous, acting hosting a show themselves. It hasn’t, however, been without its critics. One such major criticism of the streaming site has been addressed as Twitch has officially implemented a dress code…
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YouTube Adds Channel View Requirement for Ad Revenue
YouTube had a lot of backlash from advertisers lately as their ads very shown on extremist videos. That could make people believe that companies associated with that kind of a crowd which in return could affect their reputation. In reply to that and general abuse of the system, YouTube initiated…
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Facebook Forbids the Use of User Data for Surveillance
Last October, an investigation by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed that a company called Geofeedia had analysed data provided by Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to supply the police in Ferguson with surveillance information. That created a lot of uproars and only Twitter overhauled its policies to try and stop…
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Blackberry is “Disturbed” by Apple’s Encryption Policy
Companies are often critical of one another when their policies are involved. With privacy and encryption sitting atop everyone’s minds with recent news that the Blackberry boss has come out as more than a little “disturbed” regarding Apples latest move to encrypt everything. With the encryption policy in place to increase the number…
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Facebook Announces Changes To Graphic Video Policy
In this day and age, technology and how it’s used evolves just as much as species have in millions of years. The change often comes with big news, and with social media often replacing the front page of people’s newspapers, big events mean big coverage and it would seem Facebook is…
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iOS 10 Won’t Collect Data If You Don’t Want It To
These days the whole decision behind companies and software comes down to as simple a thing as their policies and in that regard Apple seems to be taking on Microsoft by creating an opt-in policy for iOS 10. The new technique, one which Apple is calling its “differential privacy” will…
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Valve Found Guilty of Breaking Australian Consumer Law
Valve is known for creating the popular digital sales platform Steam, which does everything hardware to regular sales on video games. One thing they’ve been keen to improve on for a while has been their refund policy, something which saw the original policy replaced with one that could offer full refunds to people who…
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Microsoft Will Now Support Windows 7 and 8.1 For New Processors
Technology changes, that is an inevitable fact. As we produce more and more powerful designs and techniques we create new pieces of hardware and sometimes this causes trouble for those who aren’t quite ready to move on. Microsoft announced previously that those wanting to use the latest in Intel’s processors,…
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YouTube Create Team to Deal With Takedown Mistakes
YouTube is known as much for its community content as it is for the paid content it wants to introduce. Community content can be anything from the cute cat playing piano video to an action packed music video featuring your favourite movie and video game clips, the latter of which don’t…
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Microsoft Ends Unlimited OneDrive Storage Due to ‘User Abuse’
Microsoft’s cloud storage service has proved to be incredibly popular due to its unlimited data policy. However, reports from The Wall Street Journal suggest some users have taken advantage of the unlimited storage and forced Microsoft to cap the data to 1 Terabyte. Additionally, Microsoft decided to remove the 100GB and 200GB…
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Netflix Offers Parental Leave – Paid For A Year
Employees are people, this fact is well-known, but often ignored by a lot of companies, ultimately this means that people don’t enjoy working where they are because they are just another cog in the machine. Once in a while though we get to write an article about a company who…
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Facebook Keeps Banning People With Unconventional Names
How weird can a name be for Facebook decides to ban you from creating profile page? Well, apparently not that weird. This is the case of Al Overdrive, who got his Facebook account disabled second time around. Before you ask, yes, his real name is Alister Overdrive, or Al Overdrive…
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No Packing Heat With Your Cab To Go
Since its inception in early 2009, Uber prides itself on being at the forefront of both convenience and also cutting edge technology which has made the relatively mundane task of requesting a cab as simple as ordering a Mocha Choca Latte (I checked and as long as I don’t put “Ya…
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