Facebook decides to no longer remove any posts claiming that the COVID-19 virus was man made

The COVID-19 virus came into existence in the start of 2020 since then it started spreading to different parts of the world and affected all countries in no time. Alongside the virus a lot of fake information also travelled around the world. The main reason for the spread of a lot of fake news and...

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New Report Reveals Phishing Attacks Have Increased in the First Quarter of 2021 Compared to the Last Years’ Quarter

In the last few year’s humans have become highly dependent on technology, people use technology to make work much easier for them. The use of internet and technology sure has a lot of benefits but there are a few drawbacks that come with it, one such drawback of using the internet is ‘Phishing’...

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2.9 million manual actions were taken against Web spam by Google in 2020, comparatively less than 2019

Almost a year later since the tech giant, Google released their yearly web spam report in June 2020. Recently another additional report has been released by the company giving an insight on the actions taken by the firm to handle web spam cases last year. The main highlight of the additional report...

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Twitter Releasing Spaces for Web Browsers for Desktops

As soon as any social network gets a massive recognition, other platforms make it their priority to create a similar working feature on their application which eventually increases competition. Twitter did something similar. As soon as Clubhouse, an audio only socialization feature got enough...

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7 Ways to Prevent Bank Fraud in 2021

Bank fraud continues to be an ongoing problem for the financial industry. In 2017, Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Consumer Sentinel Network received 1.1m fraud-related identity theft reports, costing the victims $905m in losses. With an unprecedented increase in online shopping and online...

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Can Google’s Dream of Conversational Searches Come True?

Right now if you wanted to end up searching for something or the other on Google, pretty much the only thing that you can end up doing would be to type your search query in. Google, or any other search engine, would pick up the keywords from this search query and would compare them to the content...

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iOS Flaw Allows App Developers to Coerce iPhone Users into Giving a Five Star Review

The review system that has been put in place on the App Store helps allow users to figure out which apps are truly going to end up serving them well, but with all of that having been said and now out of the way it is important to note that there are a number of ways in which app developers can end...

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