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Friday, August 31, 2018
7:15 PM
Best PaaS providers of 2018
6:50 AM
Firefox's upcoming releases will block ad trackers by default
Mozilla has today announced that, starting in October, the Firefox web browser will begin to implement new features aimed at blocking cross-site ad tracking. The changes will make it much harder for third-party advertisers to track Firefox users' web browsing activity and, by extension, it will be more difficult for ad networks to construct personalised profiles of those users.
The rollout of Firefox's...
Thursday, August 30, 2018
2:40 PM
Twitter tests a feature that suggests accounts to unfollow
This week, Twitter briefly tested a new feature that provides users with a suggested list of accounts to unfollow.
Originally spotted by TheNextWeb’s Matt Mavarra, the test – which only ran for a few days – provided a pop up on the user’s Twitter account that recommended the user review a list of "accounts you may not need to follow".
Here's how the feature looked:
Culling Twitter
In a statement...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
7:15 PM
Neflix bans its actors from saying ‘binge-watching’
It appears that Netflix has asked actors that star in its original productions to avoid using the term ‘binge-watching’ when talking about viewer habits.
In an interview with the Empire film podcast, Guy Pearce, who stars in Netflix’s new show The Innocents, revealed that “I don’t think Netflix likes the term ‘binge’… we were strictly sort of instructed beforehand not to talk about ‘binge-watching.”
Should...
5:00 PM
Best IaaS providers of 2018
4:40 PM
Twitter and Facebook fight leads to cross-posted Tweets being deleted
Facebook and Twitter’s fight over whether tweets posted on Twitter can be automatically posted to Facebook has been rumbling on since the beginning of the year, and has now resulted in large numbers of Facebook posts made that way disappearing.
It appears that the cause of these posts disappearing is Twitter’s recent decision to delete its Facebook platform app. In January, Facebook announced it was...
3:20 PM
Report: Yahoo and AOL will scan your emails and sell the data to advertisers
If you’ve got a Yahoo or AOL email address then your correspondence might not be as private as you think, as Oath (the combined Yahoo and AOL business) uses a program that scans accounts, with over 200 million inboxes scanned in total.
That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which reports that these scans are designed to look for information contained in your emails that can then be sold to advertisers...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
11:22 PM
Best free image hosting websites 2018 for photos and videos
Ubiquitous cloud computing and the advent of smartphones with superb connectivity and compact-beating cameras have turned us into trigger-happy snappers and eager uploaders.
While Facebook remains the top destination for pictures, other image hosting websites (free or paid) have mushroomed in popularity...
4:03 PM
Best cloud antivirus of 2018
Sunday, August 26, 2018
11:22 PM
Facebook has a new idea for connecting you with strangers
If you're bored of your friends and family, how about connecting with a few strangers to spice up your Facebooking? The social media site is testing a new feature that displays interests you have in common with people you aren't connected to – people who might be commenting on your friends' posts or pictures, for example.
As CNET reports, the idea is that if you share something in common with a person...
Saturday, August 25, 2018
2:38 PM
Get your broadband sorted this Bank Holiday with one of these 5 deals
We know it's uncharitable to moan after the summer we've just had, but wouldn't it be nice to have a dazzling August Bank Holiday for once?
Still, if there's one good thing to come of a Bank Holiday sat inside with the curtains closed, it's bargain hunting. As well as Bank Holiday deals on everything from TVs to mobile phones to games consoles and beyond, it's also the weekend of the year when internet...
Friday, August 24, 2018
5:03 PM
Cryptocurrency-stealing Trojan raises new concerns on the Mac malware front
Mac users have another potential worry on the security front, with the news that Lazarus, a notorious bunch of hackers from North Korea, has adapted its cryptocurrency-stealing malware to target macOS.
As spotted by Computerworld, security firm Kaspersky’s researchers uncovered the campaign, which goes under the name of ‘AppleJeus’, and the malware – called Fallchill – was initially spotted after...
Thursday, August 23, 2018
7:08 PM
The best mining pools of 2018 for cryptocurrency
If you're serious about cryptocurrency mining, then before you begin mining right away, you should first look at the best mining pools of 2018 for cryptocurrency.
This is because the most popular currencies such as Bitcoin and Litecoin can take centuries to generate a valid 'block' on your own and make...
5:03 PM
Slack wants to turn your business into "a team of teams"
Slack has grown rapidly over the past few years to become one of the world’s most popular chat and collaboration tools.
The company, which incredibly is still only four years old, now numbers over eight million daily active users, with the UK ranking as one of its top five markets worldwide, and the likes of Marks & Spencer, Sky, ITV and Ocado all signed up as customers.
But far from resting on...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
2:02 PM
What is private cloud?
Cloud computing gets divided into three types: public, private, and hybrid; the last being a mix between the first two types. While a public cloud connects to multiple users through the internet, a private cloud is restricted to only select users, such as a university, or a company. The private cloud can be located directly on premise directly on the internal network, or at an off premises company...
7:42 AM
Facebook is using a reliability score to stamp out trolls
In Facebook’s ongoing fight with fake news, it employs a number of methods to help weed out falsehoods from the truth, but now we know the company’s method for verifying the verifiers.
An article from the Washington Post has revealed that Facebook assigns its users a reputation score between 0 and 1. When a user flags a post as containing false news, their score is adjusted based on the veracity of...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
8:52 PM
GDPR sees cookies crumble on EU news sites
Several months on from GDPR, the new laws are having a dramatic effect on how news websites gather information on their readers.
A new study has found that the number of tracking cookies on EU news sites has fallen 22 per cent since GDPR came into force, with the UK has seen the biggest drop, with a post-GDPR fall of 45 per cent fewer cookies.
Cookies related to website design and optimisation saw...
7:42 PM
Making way for a new landscape: The everchanging world of private clouds
Most technologies experience continuous change and innovation, and with the extent to which cloud computing has significantly evolved over the last ten years, it is no exception. Previously, the cloud was for more for technology-based sectors, whereby the computing geniuses of the world would test new, revolutionary ideas.
Now, the landscape of the cloud is far more widely incorporating and open for...
4:03 PM
Twitch Prime won’t support ad-free viewing for much longer
The live-streaming platform Twitch is rolling back its ad-free streaming options, following a blog post detailing upcoming changes to Twitch Prime accounts.
As of September 14, Twitch Prime users will start seeing pre-roll, mid-roll, and display ads while watching broadcasts across the streaming site, which was bought by Amazon in 2014 and now attracts over 15 million daily users - largely for live-streams...
2:47 PM
What is multicloud?
Cloud computing has become an important tool for business, enabling redundant data processes, and computing resources that can scale to meet the challenge of an uptick in demand, all in an instant. It has enabled offerings as diverse as Software as a Service, and the increasingly popular container technology.
With...
2:12 PM
Venezeula ties its economy to petro cryptocurrency
Venezeula has announced it will be pegging its economy to a national cryptocurrency as it looks to save itself from economic ruin.
The crisis-hit South American country, which recently saw its hyper-inflation grow to more than 1,000,000 per cent, has announced it will be tying the bolivar to the government's own petro cryptocurrency.
As part of the move, the bolivar will be devalued 96 per cent, from...
Monday, August 20, 2018
1:57 PM
Is your router a cybersecurity risk?
Internet routers could be affected by a major security flaw that could let hackers infiltrate your home network.
Research from TheBestVPN found vulnerabilities in routers from some of the biggest device manufacturers around today, including those from NetGear, D-Link and ZTE.
The research team found that all three contained software flaws that could allow malicious access, which TheBestVPN says could...
6:46 AM
EU targets tech giants with tough new anti-terror content rules
Even though Google, Twitter and Facebook have been allegedly trying to curb the spread of radical sentiments on their social platforms, the European Union isn’t satisfied.
The EU will soon be proposing a new law that will force all technology companies – including large and small businesses – to identify and delete terror propaganda, with failure to comply leading to hefty fines.
The details of the...
Saturday, August 18, 2018
3:11 PM
Netflix is testing video ads that play between episodes
Your next Netflix binge-watching session might be interrupted with a video advert for one of Netflix's own shows, as the video streaming platform has confirmed it's testing the idea with a limited number of users.
Reports on Reddit explain how it works. As you finish one episode and wait for the next one to buffer up, Netflix will serve up a trailer for one of its own programs – something like Orange...
Friday, August 17, 2018
7:21 PM
You won't find this £15.99 per month cheap broadband deal anywhere else online
We spend a lot of time at TechRadar trying to dig out the best prices and deals for you on a massive range of hardware and services - from PS4 bundles to antivirus software. As well as, of course, the best broadband deals.
But sometimes we just like to take the bull by the horns and proactively seek...
Thursday, August 16, 2018
4:56 PM
Google One now offers temptingly-priced cloud storage in the US
Google One, the firm’s new cloud storage service which paying Google Drive subscribers have been gradually upgraded to in recent times, is now available to anyone who wishes to sign up over in the US, with other territories to follow shortly.
In other words, Google One is now officially live, and those in the States can hop over to the official website to grab a piece of the action (those elsewhere...
2:46 PM
What is Kubernetes?
Kubernetes is an open source system for managing applications in a container technology environment. Kubernetes automates the manual processes to deploy and scale containerized applications. It can also manage clusters of containerized applications, which can span public, private and hybrid clouds.
The name, Kubernetes, is inspired by the container ship analogy, and builds on that to indicate...
2:21 PM
The 20 best online games you should play today
As good as the best PC games often are, they (and your PC) can cost a lot of money – some of them fail to keep you engaged for a notable amount of time, some of them lead to boredom rather than curing it, and that's not always a great return on the investment you've put in.
Enter online games: low-cost, low-maintenance titles designed to keep you occupied while you’re working (or at home unemployed...