An extension was discovered that misused the Chrome Sync feature in order to gain access over the user’s information

Chrome sync, is a feature of Google Chrome that saves copies of the user’s Chrome browsing history, its bookmarks, password and browser and extension settings after they log in to their Google account. The feature is basically used to sync all the details between the user and the entire user’s...

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Microsoft will soon launch a Windows 10 security update that will remove the old Edge desktop browser from users’ system

The giant tech Microsoft has decided to remove the ending support for the edge legacy desktop application on March 9, 2021. The old Microsoft edge legacy will receive no security update anymore. There could be privacy reasons for which Microsoft has decided to remove it. However, the main reason...

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Over Three Billion Separate Email IDs and Passwords Were Leaked Online Onto Forums

In a rather bizarre occurrence, over 3.2 billion different email IDs and passwords were leaked onto an online hacking forum. Leaks of this nature are, if we're being honest, certainly not heard of. Complications concerning celebrity IDs, photos, and the like are almost always in the news. However,...

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Google Chrome Has Gained The Ability To Create QR Codes

Google has very recently added a new feature to Chrome, allowing users to generate QR codes with the application. QR codes have quietly sprung about in the modern world. Unlike the advent of iPhones or 5G towers, which were released and integrated into current culture with much pomp, QR codes...

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Mark Zuckerberg made a short appearance on the Clubhouse app and talked about the future of AR and VR and Facebook’s progress on it

Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, made a short appearance on the audio-only Clubhouse app as ‘Zuck23’. Clubhouse is a new social networking app that provides audio-only rooms. The recent club house meeting was hosted by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and CEO Vlad Tenev. They discussed...

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Apple to launch Apple Glasses, cameras with 8k resolution power and a new eye tracking technology with its AR headsets

Augmented Reality (AR) has been in news for quite some time with different multinational companies planning one thing or the other for its future and of course to provide the best of this platform to their users. In Augmented Reality a user is able to have an experience where the objects of the...

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Facebook Removes Any Misinformation About Covid-19 and its Vaccine from Its Social Network

With the emergence of Covid-19, people started freaking out and many took it to social media to provide self-gathered information about the virus, it spreads, and the availability of resources in a certain region but social media is a vast world, and we cannot really say which information updated...

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