Latest and Breaking Internet News and Top Stories - July 3
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Much of Google remains off limits to Internet users in Cuba, despite a recent visit here by top executives from the popular site, state-run media complained on Wednesday.
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Facebook on Wednesday announced a deal to buy online video advertising technology company LiveRail.
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Jezebel and Guido Fawkes sites among those blocked by at least one mobile or fixed line service provider in UK, campaigners say Nearly one in five of the most visited sites on the internet are being blocked by the adult content filters i...
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After getting caught red-handed experimenting with new feeds in order to affect users' emotions, Facebook has come out with an official apology. During a visit to New Delhi, India Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg apolog...
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With more than 554 million active users, Twitter is one of the most popular social networking sites. Active users of social networking who are in a romantic relationship may find that Twitter-related conflicts cause relationship problems...
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The second most powerful executive at the company, Sheryl Sandberg, says experiments were poorly communicated Facebooks second most powerful executive, Sheryl Sandberg, has apologised for the conduct of secret psychological tests on near...
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A California venture capitalist announced Wednesday he won the US government auction of bitcoins, and plans to use them to help emerging economies that are "hamstrung by weak currencies."
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Georgia Tech researchers have created a tool to monitor the accessibility of Web pages around the world that can be installed by adding a single line of code to a web page. The tool, Encore, runs when a user visits a website where the co...
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Fun free game tests general knowledge challenging players to pin the right town, city or country Where were the FA cut finals held between 2001 and 2005 while Wembley was being rebuilt? If you said Cardiff youd still have 1,000 miles on ...
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Publishers must fight back against this indirect challenge to press freedom, which allows articles to be 'disappeared'. Editorial decisions belong with them, not Google When you Google someone from within the EU, you no longer see what t...
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Six global internet service providers (ISPs) have filed a legal complaint calling for a halt to GCHQ’s use of network infrastructure for surveillance
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So, Facebook has been in the dock after publishing details of a supposedly sinister experiment it oversaw several years ago. It involved monitoring the moods of around 700,000 users based on their posts. The research also established tha...
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(Reuters) - Cyber criminals may have stolen billions of dollars from a popular Brazilian online payment system using malicious software that caused the funds to be sent to accounts controlled by fraudsters, according to a research report...
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi has permitted Twitter unprecedented access to his administration in a drive to put social media at the heart of government, the U.S. Internet company said.
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Facebook "communicated really badly" about a controversial study in which it secretly manipulated users' feelings, the social network's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg admitted Wednesday.
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Particle physics lab CERN uses OpenStack private cloud and Rackspace cloud services to provide the high-throughput compute power researchers need
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Ryutaro Nonomura wails and bangs fists on desk as he tries to explain his profligate use of public funds A 47-year-old provincial politician was rapidly becoming an internet phenomenon in Japan on Wednesday after crying as he tried to ex...
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - With many Indians worrying about the threat of tough measures in their new government's first budget next week, a Facebook post suggesting the finance minister might be pondering less earthly matters quickly roused ...
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(Reuters) - The British data watchdog is investigating whether Facebook Inc violated data-protection laws when it allowed researchers to conduct a psychological experiment on its users.
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Authorities will question Facebook over an experiment in which the social network secretly manipulated the feelings of users to test their mood, officials said Wednesday.
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Only a fraction of our connections on social media are people we love. The rest are people we already probably dislike It's cute that Facebook was apparently trying to make me sad by suppressing my friends' good-news updates so that I fe...
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UK datacentre industry has been officially recognised as a legitimate industry and a significant contributor to the economy, growth and jobs
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Seven international web providers lodge formal complaint to court alleging breach of privacy and breaking into their networks Internet service providers from around the world are lodging formal complaints against the UK government's moni...
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(Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)'s data collection program has been an effective tool to enhance the country's security but some elements of the cyber-spying raises privacy concerns, a U.S. federal privacy watchdog sai...
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If you've ever wanted a chance to dip your toes into the next versions of Microsoft's Office products and services before they hit the shelves, you're in luck. The company is on the hunt for beta testers as part of a newly launched Pre-R...
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We're constantly told about the evolving cloud market and the benefits it can bring, but with so many different storage services available it can be a challenge nailing down what's right for your business. What's more, does the prolifera...
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The latest streaming music acquisition could bring contextual playlists to Google Play and YouTube alike The latest company to be bought by Google is US-based streaming music service Songza, in a deal that the New York Times claims is wo...
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Justice secretary says government is open to debate on legality of uploading sexually explicit media on internet without consent Publishing sexually explicit pictures of former partners known as "revenge pornography" could soon...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc wants its users in India to hang up on advertisers.
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41% of UK adults get their news from the internet or apps according to Ofcom research, inching ahead of those who do so through newspapers The percentage of adults in the UK consuming news via the internet or apps has overtaken those who...
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Information Commissioner's Office reported to be looking into study in which postings for 700,000 users were secretly altered Facebook is being investigated to assess whether an experiment in which it manipulated users' news feeds to stu...
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Anyone who tells you that trolling is a purely online phenomenon is not living with it. The women on the recent 'frightbats' list have weathered real-world incidents for years I discovered that a male blogger from a rival news organisati...
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Google has confirmed the acquisition of mobile music streaming app Songza and has announced plans to integrate it within YouTube and other Google music products. The Songza app users powerful curation algorithms and DJ-created playlists ...
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Tommy Main's death 'unexplained' after reports he took part in game that involves people being filmed punching each other A 23-year-old man has died after reportedly playing an internet game that involves people being filmed punching eac...
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Google on Tuesday said that it has bought Songza, a free online streaming music service that recommends tunes based on what people might be in the mood to hear.
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US marshals do not release name of successful bidder as prominent contenders come forward and bitcoin prices rise The US Marshals Service had one winner in its auction of nearly 30,000 bitcoin , a spokeswoman said on Tuesday, without rev...
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Microsoft on Monday staged a takedown of two malware families abusing no-IP services but, in the mission to take down the botnets, legitimate servers depending on dynamic domain name services from No-IP were, as Dan Goodin of Ars Technic...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has acquired streaming music service Songza, the Internet search company's latest move to play a bigger role in the fast-growing online music business.
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Three years ago this month, Google Inc. launched a new social network with high hopes of countering the rising tide of Internet users who were flocking to Facebook.
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The British Psychological Society's ethics committee and research ethics reference group have serious misgivings about the recent "experiment" by Facebook ( Report , 29 June). Facebook sought to modify peoples' emotional states...
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As if we needed another way to measure the popularity of our cat, baby and selfie videos, Vine has created a counter that enables users to monitor how many times people watch one of their videos. Think of "Loop Count" as an addit...
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Irrelevant, outdated or otherwise inappropriate? A new website helps you to explain exactly how to get information about yourself removed from Google so what are the most frequent reasons customers give? Why do people exercise their &quo...
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Anthony Noto was one of the team at Goldman Sachs who took Twitter public - and now he's one of its top lieutenants as the musical chairs continues Twitter has hired Anthony Noto, a former Goldman Sachs banker who was part of the team th...
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Microsoft has switched on its new webmail encryption tools making it far more difficult for prying eyes to take a peek at emails exchanged through Outlook.com and the software giant's other webmail domains. The new Transport Layer Securi...
