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Warnings Issues Over New ‘Royal Mail’ Text Scam
Scams are, sadly, a very common part of modern life. I myself regularly get telephone calls from my ‘Internet Service Provider’ telling me that there’s been suspicious activity on my account and my network will be shut down within 24-hours unless I (presumably) pay someone a fee. – Fortunately, many…
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Google’s Autocomplete Has New Amusing Suggestion For Sitting
Google’s Autocomplete Has New Amusing Suggestion For Sitting Have you ever tried to send your babysitter a message asking if they are free? It’s a fairly innocuous proposition as long as it involves them watching your children. One, user while doing this, however, has discovered that Google’s autocorrect system provides a much…
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Facebook Announces its Open Phone Network – OpenCellular
Facebook is not one to shy away from trying to create new networks or systems. These initiatives are focused on bringing technologies to developing countries and are not always warmly received. The latest plan comes in the form of OpenCullular, a plan to bring mobile networks and internet connectivity to the…
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Vindictive Service Will Text Your Enemies Game of Thrones Spoilers
A mean-spirited new service offers to text Game of Thrones spoilers to your “friends” immediately after each episode airs. Spoiled.io charges $0.99 per spoiler and can send messages to international numbers. “Do your friends love Game of Thrones,” the Spoiler.io website reads, “but watch it after it airs? Are you…
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Apple Could Be Making A Way For Your Contacts To See Your Autocorrect Mistakes
When it comes to texting these days, we often make mistakes for a variety of reasons. Sometimes we are just unsure of how a word is spelt and sometimes no matter how hard you try the right buttons just never seem to get pressed. While they don’t end conversations or…
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Microsoft Translator Can Now Translate Text From Images
Isn’t it just annoying when you go away on Holiday or spot something and sit there for five minutes wondering what the text even says? Microsoft is looking to make it a little easier on us with a Translator that won’t just do text but can also translate text from…
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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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Machine Learning Algorithm Can Tell If You Are Drunk Tweeting
So you’ve had a few drinks and decide it would be a great idea to drunk text someone? The next morning you wake up and check your phone to see several responses which make you swear to never drink again (or at least until the next night out with your…
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Snooper Charter Powers are Increasingly Worrying
Security is one thing, from a virus on your phone or PC to a coordinated breach and remote access that compromises your computer. While we may not want to believe them, they are the things that happen more than anyone would want and as such, people are employed to look…
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U.S. Judge Tried to Bribe FBI Agent with Beer for Text Messages
We’ve all heard the stories, governments and agencies using every method under the sky for obtaining information. Although, I think this is the first time that I’ve heard someone try to obtain information by offering beer, at least that’s what Wayne County Superior Court Judge Arnold Ogden Jones is accused…
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California’s Legal System Now Supports Digital Privacy
In recent years, there has been a big uproar courtesy of a certain reveal by a man named Edward Snowden, regarding digital privacy. To be more precise, it was about the lengths that groups went to in order to avoid any legal requirements when it came to accessing and using…
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SoftMaker Office 2016 Suite Launched in the UK
There aren’t that many office suites on the market, but there are few. There is the big Microsoft Office, Open and Libre Office, and then there is SoftMaker Office that often is referred to as the real alternative to Microsoft’s offer. The newest version is out and available in the…
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“Text Walking Lanes” Introduced in Antwerp
Are you fed up of being stuck behind slow walking people who are more interested in staring at their phone that looking where they are going? Or perhaps you’re more interested in starting at your phone and you’re fed up of fast walking people barging past you while you’re trying…
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Could FutureMUD Revitalize Text-Based Gaming?
FutureMUD has been something I, personally, have been excited about for years and to hear that the first working demonstration is coming makes me drool in anticipation! MUDs, or Multi-User Domains, are primarily text-based real-time virtual worlds that are generally used for Role-Playing Games. The technology is certainly nothing new, having seen early…
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Microsoft “Office Lens” Document Scanner App for Android Beta Released
Microsoft just released the Android beta app for “Office Lens”, an app that allows you to capture notes, business cards, receipts, and other printed material to be saved as a digital file. The app can also capture things like whiteboards and save them as a digital file, a useful tool…
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