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Tinder Investigating After 40,000 Pictures Taken From Site
Tinder is investigating an incident in which over 40,000 user facial pictures were downloaded by a programmer and shared on the internet. The data obtained by the programmer is now offline, however, it was mostly thought to have affected users based in the California region (although activity outside this area is…
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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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Someone Cut Breaking Bad into a 2-Hour Movie
Breaking Bad is without a doubt one of the finest TV series of the last decade and the 5-season series has lots of fans around the world. But watching it for 5 seasons might be too much for those who just want to be able to talk about the series…
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Gamer Temporarily Breaks Steam Level Icons as He Sets New Record
Records are meant to be broken and apparently so are systems that aren’t prepared for power users and game collectors. PalmDesert is already known for being among the top collectors within the Valve Steam platform, but he recently pushed his Steam level so far that he temporarily broke the icon…
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Tracking Users Via Wi-Fi Without Permission? Get Fined!
When it comes to advertising these days, putting something in the newspaper doesn’t seem to quite cut it anymore. Companies will do anything from tracking your online activity to forcing you to fill out surveys before letting you use their sites, but one company decided to go further. InMobi decided…
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Don’t Drill Your Graphics Card or Receive This Expensive Lesson
We have all done something stupid at one point or another, but some people’s actions make ours look pale in comparison. Such a case showed up this week where the victim of stupidity was nothing less than a Zotac GeForce GTX 980Ti Amp graphics card. At this point, you might…
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Google Translates Russia as “Mordor”
Google Translate is an extremely useful albeit slightly confusing tool at times, the freedom to translate any foreign web page or language with a degree of accuracy has been widely used by a huge array of consumers and companies alike. However, there are instances when Google translates something completely different…
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Huge Steam Error Exposes User Details!
Steam is a worldwide service designed to help you and your friends purchase and play games with a sense of security and unity. This doesn’t mean it’s perfect though as we found out this Christmas with a bunch of users reporting seeing other people’s details. Reported on Reddit users were…
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Microsoft Will Not “Force” Consumers to Upgrade to Windows 10… Or Will They?
Microsoft has been somewhat pushy concerning the adoption of Windows 10, from the many “forced upgrade” attempts, relentless hidden updates to the secretive file downloading system which launches an installer without explicit user acceptance, the tech giant has clearly overstepped its remit. Well, apparently no, no it has not, if…
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FAA Give More Details About Registration Plans For Drones
Drones are advancing at a rapid rate, with companies and the public alike looking to use them for a variety of reasons. Sadly with all new technologies coming into the public domain, there are a few issues. Most recently there was an incident when a drone crashed into a power…
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Rockstar Responds to FiveM Modder Bans
It has barely been two days since Rockstar banned the people behind the already popular third-party multi-player mod made by the FiveM mod team and we could only speculate on the reason up until now. The mod that FiveM made didn’t touch Rockstar’s multiplayer part, as that is forbidden and we’ve…
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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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Twitter Hope To Increase Users With Their New Homepage
Twitter has been cooking up a new homepage for its social media platform and it is now ready to launch. The social media platform plans to roll out their new homepage today, but what is the ultimate goal here? From the looks of it, Twitter plans to get more people…
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AT&T Says NO to the FCC’s $100 Million Throttling Fine
If you read about it, AT&T just got fined last month for allegedly throttling customers with ‘unlimited’ data plan. To sum it up, the FCC saw that AT&T had been “severely” slowing down users while not telling those users about the caps placed on their speed. So, they decided to…
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Here’s How Steam Got Hacked Last Week
Did you think that email confirmations and generated code needed to log into unauthorized computers would stop hackers from hijacking your Steam account? Well, think again! But to be fair, it seems like the real problem was mainly down to the security team at Steam. Before you freak out, the…
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