After Turkey decided to ban social media platforms, many of its citizens took to Google’s domain name service (DNS) to evade it, but now, according to Google, it seems that the majority of Turkey’s internet service pro...
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Turkey has decided to continue their attempts to control social by banning YouTube. This comes only a few hours after their ban on Twitter was reversed as well. These moves have been seen as an attempt by Prime Minister Recep Tayy...
An independent regulator of the media wants is trying to push the government into making laws that would enforce the age checks on porn sites and ensure that no one under 18 is able to get through. Good luck with that. The Authori...
Google has a ton of great services. I’m sure most dotTechies have used Google or its services at least once at some point in their life. This article shares with you 10 useful Google links that everyone should know. Read on ...
Locating a person via Twitter is usually only possible if that person uses geotags in their Tweets. (Geotags in Twitter are basically tags that provide your geographic location.) However, the boys at IBM managed to bypass the geot...
Shortly after Microsoft admitted that it read through a journalist’s Hotmail email account without permission to track down a leak, the company scrambled to change its email policies and avoid even more public backlash. Whil...
You may not have realized this, but Google has a lightweight image format that makes YouTube videos load up to 10 percent faster than normal. It’s all in a bid to make the Internet faster, even if you have a relatively slow ...
If you’re having a hard time understanding the conflict in Syria, don’t worry, because the website Untangling Syria is there to help. The website was created by Scott Field, who is the Middle East manager for Skoll Glo...
An internal investigation conducted by Microsoft into one of their (ex)employees — Alex Kibkalo, who leaked a Microsoft-internal Activation Server SDK as well as pre-release updates for Windows RT — has raised concerns...
If you’ve ever wondered what your street or your city looked like years after a post-apocalyptic event, then look no further than the Google Street View Urban Jungle hack. Rather than going with a wasteland vibe, something y...
According to a paper called DeepFace that was published on Facebook’s site, the social network has created facial recognition software that has a 97% success rate. While many facial recognition programs are far from accurate...
Eric Chason and Kevin Bollaert have been ordered by a federal judge district court judge, based in Ohio, to pay $385,000 to a woman who’s pictures, which were of a sexually explicit nature, were posted on their revenge porn ...
Google made an announcement on its blog today that is sure to make most if not all Gmail users happy. Amidst all the news on government surveillance, Google will now be enhancing its encryption for Gmail. Whenever a user checks th...
We all know Apple is a money making machine, but what if you could sit back and watch the Cupertino giant make over $300,000 in a minute, that would be cool right? Sure, it would. That’s why a bunch of guys chose to create s...
