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Google Reveals New Feature That Allows Users to Pay Their Bills Inside Gmail
Companies encourage more and more customers to switch to e-billing in order to cut down on the amount of paper used for bills. However, even if bills come in your email, you still have to go out to pay them or use an online payment system to do so. Google…
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What’s Up With This Bizarre Steam Account Part of 200,000 Groups?
A number of Steam users have recently stumbled upon a bizarre account that is part of almost 200,000 groups. The account has one friend, no profile image and is level zero but is part of an insane number of groups. The first mention of it came from a Reddit user who wondered…
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Let the Saints Row IV Modding Commence
We’ve already seen the new standalone expansion to Saints Row IV, named Gat out of Hell, as well as the Saints Row IV: Re-elected console exclusive. But that wasn’t all the Saints developer team, Volition, had to announce during PAX Prime this weekend. The official modding SDK for Saints Row…
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Razer’s Nabu Smartband Said To Be Rolling Out In October
Razer looks to be closer to a final release date for its Nabu smartband than initially thought. A press release earlier this month indicated that Razer is working with mobile gaming developer, Tencent Games, in order to bring ‘Timi Run Everyday’ to the smartband, as well as revealing a fourth…
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Facebook Messenger Sparks Anger in Low-End Smartphone Users
Facebook’s aim is to be a social network, dedicated to maintaining friendships, creating new ones, share experiences and most importantly, chatting with friends. However, the social networks appears to do exactly the opposite and spark a large number of enemies who hate its current strategy. The social network giant appears…
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International Class Action Privacy Suit Targets Facebook
Activist and law student, Max Schrems, has launched an international class action suit against Facebook Ireland for not being in accordance with European data protection law. Aside from the US and Canada, it is said that anyone can join his suit over at fbclaim.com since they have signed up to…
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Facebook’s Outage Scares Everyone… Again!
Millions of users have noticed today that around 12 pm Eastern Time, the social media giant, Facebook, went down for about 30 minutes. This is not the first time the website and its services are unavailable, having the social media giant experiencing similar issues just over a month ago. Mashable…
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OkCupid Follows in Facebook’s Footsteps, Admits to be Experimenting on Humans
After the Facebook fiasco and their little research on human behaviour, it seems that its time for OkCupid, the online dating service, to do the same. The service is said to have admitted that it too had manipulated what is shows users in order to see what would happen. Three…
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Warning: Nokia Lumia Cyan Update Could Brick your Smartphone
There have been reports that some Windows Phone users were experiencing BitLocker issues after upgrading their handset to the latest Cyan update, but a clear confirmation of who was experiencing it and how could not be made. It now seems that the users being affected are Windows Phone 8.1 Preview…
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BlackBerry Shows its Answer to Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana
Personal assistants have been around for some time now, having people demanding a more complex and interactive approach from their voice-enabled personal assistants. Apple’s Siri has been the first to arrive, followed by Android and Google Now, and Microsoft’s recent Cortana addition in the WP 8.1. All of the latter…
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GoZeuS Returns a Month after Authorities Take Measures Against the Malware
Though authorities had taken action against the GoZeuS and CryptoLocker malware which stole hundreds of thousands of banking logins from users and blackmail them for millions of pounds, it seems that the malwares are back. A month after the campaign, online criminals seem to have tried to rebuild the sophisticated…
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Tor/Tails Linux Users and Linux Journal Readers Tagged as “Extremists” by NSA
Tor and Tails Linux Users, as well as Linux Journal readers have been apparently tagged as ‘extremists’ by the National Security Agency, having leaked documents reveal that the XKeyscore snooping program is apparently targeting anyone who is interested in online privacy and use the latter software. For those who do…
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Warface Title Launched Amids Crytek Financial ‘Crysis’
Though Crytek is facing financial problems in the UK headquarters, having paid employees only £700 last month and staff leaving due to this, the company was able to at least release its long-awaited free-to-play title, Warface, the latest free-to-play title to hit Steam. Crytek is counting on Warface to become…
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New CISPA Regulations Could Classify Netflix as a “Cybersecurity Threat”
It appears that a new cybersecurity bill currently going through the Senate is considered too ‘broad’ and would grant ISPs the liberty to limit streaming services’ delivery to customers, having Netflix given as an example. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Protection Act of 2014, which has been rallied against twice already,…
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Hackers Use ‘The Cloud’ to Control Malware and Botnets
Security firm Trend Micro has apparently revealed new evidence of botnets and malware not only being hosted in the cloud, but also being remotely controlled from cloud servers. The main goal for hackers has been revealed to be disguising their malicious software as regular traffic between corporate end points and…
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