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Leave Your Phone at a Crime Scene and You Lose Your Privacy
We’ve all lost our mobile phones at some point. Some have been lucky enough to get their phones back, be it from someone handing it in somewhere or just tracing your steps back to where you left it. My question is did you ever leave it at a crime scene?…
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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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Google still Battling Over Right to be Forgotten
One of the first thing you are taught about the internet these days is that once something goes up, you will never truly be able to take it down. For those things which shouldn’t be posted online, you can use the “right to be forgotten”. Designed to help people who…
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You Wont Find Tech Support Ads on Bing Anymore!
We’ve all had that fear when our system starts doing something we didn’t expect it, from a popup on your desktop or an unknown program opening on your system, the problems are often not the first time they’ve occurred. The first instinct of many, if they are able, is to…
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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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Warrant Used To Track Users Through Tor Invalidated
When it was revealed that an NIT (network investigative technique) had been used to track people across Tor, people were worried about just how they had got permission to deploy such a far sweeping piece of computer malware. It would now seem that the warrant issued didn’t give as much…
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Microsoft Is Suing The US Government Over Cloud Data Searches
Microsoft is but one of many technology firms that have recently moved their focus from internal hard drives to the cloud, allowing people to access their data from anywhere in the world given the right details. The problem is other people also have access to this information, both legally and…
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FBI Calls Off Court Hearing With Apple Because They Might Have Another Solution
The battle between Apple and the FBI could soon be over with the FBI calling off a court hearing. After several hearings with Congress, the story may finally be over with the latest meeting between Apple and the FBI being canceled after FBI received another party has come forward offering…
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Robots Used To Help At Fukushima’s Nuclear Plant Are Burning Out
Five years ago an earthquake triggered a 10-meter high Tsunami that crashed into Japan. One of the buildings affected by this wall of water was Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, ultimately resulting in a meltdown that left the area irradiated and costs people their homes and, unfortunately, many lives. In…
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China Looking at Creating “Precrime” System
When people start to think about digital surveillance and their data stored online, they think about cases such as Apple vs the FBI where modern technology is used to try track down criminals or find out more about what could have or has happened. China looks to go a step further…
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Google Allowing Twitter Like Posts Straight From Businesses
Google is not one to shy away from experimenting with new features and thanks to someone’s keen eyes they’ve even spotted that you could see twitter like posts in your google searches. Similar to their mobile “cards”, you could soon see the adverts appear when you search for certain things,…
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Illumina – The Google of DNA
We have all used Google and other search engines to find everything from that news article we told our friends about the other day to the cute cat video that we just can’t stop watching. We use search engines because they let us find and pick up things more easily,…
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ASUSTOR NAS Adds Comprehensive Search App QuikFynd
ASUSTOR’s latest NAS feature could be one of the most useful features yet to be added, but it does come with a few things that you should pay attention to before you get too excited. The new feature is called QuikFynd and while it sounds like a frying pan from…
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Judge Says Stingrays “Are Simply Too Powerful” Without Rules
Stingrays have become one of the most contested ways of digital surveillance since they became public knowledge last year. The devices act like mobile phone towers, simulating their actions while allowing them to intercept and identify the devices connecting to them. The problem many have seen with this device is…
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