Cryptocurrency and Public sentiment: How consumers are adopting virtual money in 2021?

Cryptocurrency has been on the role as the prosperous coinage has been gaining more and more attention from the public. It has been the talk of the town for a while now regardless of how skeptical it might seem seeing how 14.7 million Americans intend to invest in cryptocurrency in the coming year,...

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Cyber Attacks Has Cost UK Businesses £87 Billion Since 2015

A recent study by business ISP Beaming, shows that cyber crime in the UK has doubled in the last five years, costing businesses over £87 billion. From data breaches, phishing scams and hacks, around 25% of UK companies were targeted in some shape or form, affecting in the region of 755,000 to 1.5...

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These Countries Generate the Most Single-Use Plastic Waste per Capita

The Minderoo Foundation rolled out its “Plastic Waste Makers Index” and to say that it contained some interesting revelations would be an understatement. For starters, it was found out that more than 50% of the world’s single-use plastic waste is being produced by 20 companies alone. For the...

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The US And Amazon Prone to Colossal Financial Losses During a Disastrous Internet Outage

How much money would you lose if your internet connection drops for about an hour? Sure, it would be annoying but it wouldn’t deplete your bank account, right? Well, the same can’t be said about certain companies. In fact, no internet access for a significant period of time could damage the...

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Google has assured that it will not create additional tracking procedures for its Chrome browser’s FLoC, privacy sandbox for ads directing

Many advertisers use third-party cookies widely on the web browser to track their users in order to send those personalized ads to people that a lot of the time irks the privacy-savvy users. Therefore, Google has been in a war for many years to remove these third-party cookies because the...

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New report shows the most used social media apps among US consumers during the year 2021

Social media platforms have become an important part of our lives and if we talk about US citizens they have the highest rates of social media usage especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when the people were forced to stay at home. During the pandemic situation, about 246 million US citizens were...

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Google FLoC is now making its way in the early version of Google Chrome for a limited number of users

Last year Google announced its plan for introducing a new era to its users privacy through Google FLoC. It is the full abbreviation for Federated Learning of Cohorts, that can track users anonymously by grouping them together in a group with others having similar interests. Later these groups will...

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