Category: Social Media / Websites
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How to delete your Snapchat account while preserving your data
Kaspersky Labs Blog – 6.5.19 (6.3.19) Snapchat developers were recently accused of breach of privacy after some employees’ privacy abuses came to light. In essence, they spied on users. Not a pleasant discovery, is it? It might even make one think about leaving the social network. Read more: How to delete your Snapchat account while preserving your…
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Introducing Librem Social
Purism Blog – 6.3.19 (5.31.19) Librem Social is a social network. Think Twitter… if Twitter respected your privacy and didn’t advertise to you. Read more: Introducing Librem Social – Purism
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1Password 7.3 for Mac – Our Life in Miniature
1Password Blog – 5.31.19 (5.28.19) For the last several months the design and development team at 1Password has been hard at work on a major renovation to the smallest part of everyone’s favorite password manager: 1Password mini. Read more: 1Password 7.3 for Mac – Our Life in Miniature
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Are Your Kids Part of the TikTok App Craze? Here’s What Parents Need to Know
McAfee Blog – 5.30.19 (5.28.19) What phone app has over 150 million active users and more than 14 million uploads every day? You might guess Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat, but you’d be wrong. Meet TikTok — a video app kids are flocking to that is tons of fun but also carries risk. Read more: Are…
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Networking and Security Series: Popular VPNs Compared
OWC Blog – 5.29.19 (5.24.19) Welcome back for another edition of the Networking and Security Series. Last time, we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using virtual private networks (VPNs), and in today’s article we’ll compare top VPN providers. Read more: Networking and Security Series: Popular VPNs Compared
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Microsoft Edge Experiment: Battery Life | Windows 10 May 2019 Update
Microsoft YouTube Channel – 5.29.19 (5.24.19) What happens when three identical devices run different browsers? The Microsoft Edge team wanted to find out. This experiment showed that battery life on a PC running Microsoft Edge lasts 92% longer than Mozilla Firefox, and 41% longer than Google Chrome. Source: Microsoft Edge Experiment: Battery Life | Windows…
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An Update on How We Are Doing At Enforcing Our Community Standards
Facebook Newsroom – 5.28.19 (5.23.19) Today, we’re publishing our third Community Standards Enforcement Report, covering Q4 2018 and Q1 2019. Read more: An Update on How We Are Doing At Enforcing Our Community Standards
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Microsoft Edge Web Browser Comes to macOS
OWC Blog – 5.22.19 (5.21.19) This week Microsoft announced the first preview build of its Microsoft Edge web browser for macOS. Built on a Chromium open-source foundation, Microsoft says developers “can expect a consistent rendering experience across the Windows and macOS versions of Microsoft Edge.” Great! But what about those of us who aren’t building for the rest…
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Top 10 epic Facebook fails
Kaspersky Labs Blog – 5.21.19 (5.20.19) This May, Mark Zuckerberg celebrated his 35th birthday. Congratulations! Zuckerberg did not make it to this milestone quietly, however. Instead, he faces a federal investigation looking at ways to hold him personally accountable for mismanaging users’ private data while Facebook-related scandals keep making headlines. In this post we have compiled Facebook’s…
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There’s an easier way to plan and organize your trips—here’s how
Google Blog – 5.15.19 (5.14.19) Travel planning is complicated. The number of tools and amount of information you need to sift through when deciding where to go, where to stay and what flight to take can be time consuming and overwhelming. That’s why today, we’re simplifying the way we help travelers plan trips with Google…