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Video Quality Report allows you to test how fast you load YouTube videos
Google has launched the Video Quality Report for YouTube, a tool that helps you determine how your connection fares with streaming video from the site. The report takes things like location, feed quality and time of day into accou...
Healthcare.gov is incredibly insecure, according to experts
The Healthcare.gov website is incredibly insecure, so much so that a white hat hacker was able to find its records of 70,000 people through an advanced Google search. The hacker is David Kennedy, who also started TrustedSec, which...
Hackers steal 16 million email addresses and passwords in Germany
Hackers have infected computers in Germany and managed to gain email account information on 16 million users. This information comes from Germany’s Federal Office for Security (FOS), and the information stolen includes the a...
Microsoft is hacked by Syrian Electronic Army, again
After having their Twitter account compromised earlier this month, Microsoft has again been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. This time the target was the newly redesigned Office Blog, where the SEA posted several articles tit...
Microsoft wants new international rules for data privacy and human rights
Microsoft has asked that there be new rules put in place on an international level to safeguard people’s individual privacy and rights. Brad Smith, who is Microsoft’s vice president of legal and corporate affairs, as w...
The Guardian is blocked in China, again
The Guardian has again been blocked in China, and this time it could be permanent. This is the second time that the British newspaper’s website has been blocked in China. The first time was only for a day and there was no ob...
China introduces new regulations to take away anonymity for internet users
China has decided to crack down on online anonymity by requiring anyone who posts a video in China to include their real name. China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) sent out a...
EU justice commissioner wants bigger fines for data privacy breaches
The European Union believes that harsher fines are necessary for companies that violate data privacy. The charge by the EU is being made Viviane Reding, its justice commissioner, and also vice-president of the European Commsion, w...
Dogecoin Foundation raises $30,000 to send sports team to Olympics
The Dogecoin Foundation has raised over $30,000 in Dogecoins to help send a Jamaican, two-man bobsleigh team to the Olympics. The Dogecoins have been raised to help Winston Watt and Marvin Dixon, who have just qualified for the 20...
HBO CEO doesn’t mind if you share your HBO Go account
It might be safe to say that sharing HBO Go accounts is common these days, just like Netflix. It also turns out that HBO’s CEO, Richard Plepler, doesn’t mind at all. In fact, HBO’s top executive is well aware of ...
Japan to start taxing foreign downloads in 2015, according to report
It’s quite common for foreign physical goods being taxed when imported, but not so much with digital goods. According to a report out of Nikkei, however, that might be set to change in Japan by 2015. The report says that con...
YouTube now has an official show to help you find the best videos
There’s a lot of stuff to watch on YouTube, almost too much. With all the great content that can be found on the site, there’s an equal amount that you probably don’t want to waste your time with. YouTube recogni...
Amazon is planning on shipping packages before customers buy them
The next step for Amazon seems to be to ship you the products you want before you even buy them. Recently Amazon acquired a patent known as “anticipatory shipping” and they believe that it will help them cut down on de...
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