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Is Bitcoin causing global climate change? Well, a bunch of scientists thinks Bitcoin mining will cause a 2 Celsius increase in global temperatures over the next 20+ years. Lets be frank do we think Bitcoin will still be around in 20 years or will it become more popular driving global demand for Bitcoin which will use all the electricity we
Gab is a social media website created by CEO Andrew Torba. If you use Twitter, you may have heard of Gab. It is the website disgruntled Twitter users tweet about whenever Twitter suspends accounts that break the Twitter rules. The New York Times describes Gab as “an extremist-friendly site”. USA Today reported that Robert Bowers had been identified as the
OnePlus has officially unveiled its latest flagship, the OnePlus 6T at a live event in New York. Announced a day ahead of schedule to avoid a conflict with Apple's autumn event, the 6T's features were in line with expectations based on leaks, both official and unofficial....but let's follow along with the keynote. Starting bang on time, OnePlus founder and CEO,
Dear MoviePass I want to let you know that I personally believe and am of the opinion that you are now defrauding customers attempting to use your service in good faith. For the past 14 days, I have attempted multiple times to use your service every single time and have failed to see even a single movie in the Hawaii movie
Facebook announced that it removed 82 Pages, Groups and accounts “for coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated in Iran and targeted people in the US and UK”. This follows Facebook's previous removal of 559 Pages and 251 accounts “that have consistently broken our rules against spam and inauthentic behavior”. To me, it sounds like Facebook is actually taking action to clean
The Chinese today taunted the President to use a Huawei phone after they were accused of tapping the President personal iPhone. The bigger story is that if the Chinese and Russians can tap the Presidents iPhone what does that mean for the rest of us doing business day in and day out on these same mobile phones. Does that mean
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Facebook GB£500,000 for data breaches relating to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. That's about US$650,000. The ICO's investigation into the activities of Facebook is highly critical of Facebook's laissez-faire approach to user's data. For seven years, Facebook failed to stop application developers taking users' information without informed consent, and allowed capture of the information
If you are a YouTubeTV user then you likely recall that the service was down for a week last month. In fact, I doubt any of you forgot, you may have been among angry, frustrated customers calling. Well, recently YouTube had heard enough complaints and announced that it would offer a one week credit to each customer who applies. There is a catch, you have to sign up to
Google has announced that they will now allow you to review and delete your search activity and get quick access to the most relevant privacy controls in your Google Account. Today, we're making it easier for you to make decisions about your data directly within the Google products you use every day, starting with Search. Without ever leaving Search, you
With only about a week to go before the launch of 6T, OnePlus have been busy keeping themselves in the news. Here's a quick round-up of the latest tidbits on the smartphone front. First up, OnePlus have brought forward their showcase event by a day to 29th October to avoid being overshadowed by Apple's autumn announcement which was scheduled immediately
BuzzFeed reported, in an extremely detailed article, information about their investigation into a fraud scheme that involved more than 125 Android apps and websites, some of which were targeted ads. Google has responded in a blog post on the Google Security Blog, with details about what they have done after BuzzFeed informed them about the ad fraud scheme. In short,
Uninstalled Phone App Tracking now seems to be the new way to market to us. Remover an App and within moments they will start marketing directly to the IP. Once again Privacy is disregarded in lieu of profits. I am hoping that both Apple and Google make examples of these companies. I am glad to be back with no travel
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