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Facebook Let Some Companies Access Your Private Messages, Friends Lists
Another day and another set of startling revelations about Facebook's lax attitude towards user privacy. The social giant reportedly gave major tech companies more access than advertised to the personal…
Woman Slams Social Media Firms for Baby Ads After Stillbirth
A woman whose child was stillborn has slammed the targeted advertising of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram after she returned home from the hospital and kept getting baby-related sales pitches. Gillian…
Facebook Gives Advertisers Access to Your ‘Shadow’ Contact Information
Ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal game to light, Facebook has been in the spotlight for its invasive data mining practices. The Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed how Facebook allowed a company to harvest profile information from…
Yahoo pushes back timing of Verizon deal after breaches
Verizon’s planned acquisition of Yahoo will take longer than expected and won’t close until this year’s second quarter, the internet company said on Monday. The $ billion deal was originally…
PCWorld’s February Digital Edition: Intel’s Kaby Lake CPU
Stay on top of the latest tech with PCWorld’s Digital Edition. Available as single copies or as a yearlong subscription, it highlights the best content from —the most important news,…
Facebook taps into NFC in Android phones for strong account security
We hear a lot about 2-factor authentication these days, an invaluable way to protect your account from someone who has stolen your password, but there’s an inherent wrinkle built into…
2000 Rupees Note NGC Rumour: There’s No Nano GPS Chip
The tech rumoured to be inside makes it near impossible RBI has released some details related to the 2000 note In a move that took everyone by surprise, Prime Minister…
Twitter to Reportedly Conclude Sale Deliberations This Month
Twitter has told potential acquirers it is seeking to conclude negotiations about selling itself by the time it reports third-quarter earnings on October 27, according to people familiar with the…
Facebook Testing Chat Assist for Messenger; Adds New Group Chat Polls Feature
Facebook's Messenger app will soon make sure you remember to pay back your friend, even though you would rather forget, with a feature called Chat Assist. The company has separately…
Twitter Adds Support for New Emojis, Including Racially Diverse Icons
Apple was the first to add over 150 new emoji characters with full support for Unicode and emojis with its iOS update. This was soon followed by Google which recently…