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For many years, Facebook literally ignored the existence of cryptocurrency as a potential business which the social media giant can engage with. As the year 2019 rolls-out, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company has decided to partner with another party, for the purpose of launching its own cryptocurrency, Libra coins. Being a global tech giant, Facebook will […]
Gmail’s confidential mode would be available for all G Suite users from June 25. Google had launched Gmail’s confidential mode in beta earlier in August 2018. Now, Google has announced its plans to launch the confidential mode for all G Suite users. This will happen on June 25. Google has clarified that once the Gmail […]
The U.S Navy proposes to come up with a global social media archive of a totally unprecedented scale. The social media archive that the U.S Navy researchers plan to create would comprise 350 billion of digital data records and would be part of the ongoing research efforts conducted through the Department of Defense and Analysis […]
Scammers abuse the notifications and push APIs on Android devices to send spam alerts that are customized to look like a missed call. Both APIs are used on mobile devices for push notifications – short messages intended to re-engage the user. Messages can be triggered by a local application or server. “The Notifications API lets […]
Ransomware attacks and massive infections have been plaguing the business and even personal computing since 2017. Creating an atmosphere of fear makes people do something that is otherwise unbelievable, like paying for the ransom just to “recover” the lost files due to ransomware infection. Ransomware is a cash cow for the cybercriminals, with WannaCry alone […]
By sheer coincidence, Google and Facebook one after another had their system downtimes and the world felt it heavily. We came into the realization that we depend on these two companies on how: we communicate; how we speak with each other; how to entertain ourselves and how to share our everyday lives with our acquaintances. […]
The #10YearChallenge was fun when people shared their pictures one from today and one from a decade ago. It gained widespread traction on social media. Some made jokes, paid tribute to old hairstyles. Celebrities posted glamour shots from one decade to the next. People were posting pictures on Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by […]
Google has removed 85 Android apps from the official Play Store after it was reported that these apps were adware-infected. Google took the decision to suspend the apps after researchers at security firm Trend Micro discovered that these apps, which masqueraded as games and remote controller simulators, contained a common strain of adware. The researchers […]
YouTube now finally decides to remove its annotations feature, after having discontinued the annotations editor earlier. It was in May 2017 that Google discontinued the YouTube annotations editor, after finding that the use of annotations has dropped by over 70 percent. Now, the Google-owned YouTube, which gets over 1.9 billion users every month, has decided […]
Dear readers, we are back with the Top Fossbytes – Top tech news of the Month. We have covered best stories from the mines of science and technology happened over this last month of October. Take a look and keep yourself updated. Month of November was very exciting for tech-aspirants, just like October. Meet Ambulance […]
Dear readers, we are back with the Top Fossbytes – Top tech news of the Month. We have covered best stories from the mines of science and technology happened over this last month of October. Take a look and keep yourself updated. Microsoft Launches Windows 10 instead of windows 9 Microsoft promises to provide a […]