Friday, August 20, 2021

Google Chrome decides to replace yet another perfectly functional reading list feature with an experimental one, Wall-E

Google, for once, had designed the perfect feature for utmost convenience. The Google Keep (a note-taking service though) would enable you to create the ideal shopping list in your notes through voice assistant. Since notes worked offline, there was no chance you'd ever be stuck in a Wifi-less...

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Annual Cost of Cybercrime Reportedly Exceeds $318 Billion

Cybercrime is something that is causing problems around the world, but in spite of the fact that this is the case there is a major problem associated with under reporting of these kinds of crimes within various countries that suffer from them on a more or less regular basis. Because of the fact...

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Pinterest's new filter will allow pinners to explore photos by hair designs

Pinterest has rolled out a new feature, a “first of its type” that will allow the users to explore images with the help of hair textures. Pinterest has created this feature while keeping in mind the dark, black, and Latinx colors of pinners. By using the computer vision tool, this option will allow...

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Facebook with its new ‘widely viewed content’ report counters claims regarding amplification of divisive content on its platform

Facebook since a long time has ruled the hearts of many internet users, the platform since its launch has stood out from all other competitors and have managed to a large user base. Facebook as of now is the social platform with most number of users, while also being the most used social platform...

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Facebook's Q2 Community Standards Enforcement report shows some improvement in all of its actions including the misinformation related to the pandemic

Facebook has taken some significant steps in order to make sure that its online community experiences a safe environment on its platform. Starting out of which among the list is hate speech, which has been a common occurrence throughout the internet. People online tend to abuse and pass on rude...

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Snapchat introduces a new tool ‘Trends’ which allows users to lookup keywords and their usage on Snapchat

While other social platforms were busy innovating newer ways for its users to socialize, Snapchat understood that photo sharing and chatting is something that will largely attract the newer generation, thus Snapchat came in and made photo sharing its primary focus while also bringing fun features...

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Thursday, August 19, 2021

This Year Saw 64 Percent More Ransomware Attacks

By this point pretty much everyone knows that ransomware attacks are on the rise, but the exact percentage has remained somewhat of a mystery until now. The Barracuda Network has just released some very pertinent information that could prove to be useful in this regard, and the first thing that...

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