Image copyright Getty Images Google is changing its default settings to automatically delete some of the data it collects about users. Web and app activity, including a log of website searches and pages visited, as well as location data, will now be wiped after 18 months. YouTube histories – including which clips were watched and […]
A Trump supporter sits alone in the top sections of seating at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday didn’t produce the huge crowds he’d promised, and TikTok users and K-Pop fans say they helped reduce attendance by
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As the scrutiny around Facebook’s role in political information and advertising continues, they have made a decision about how to handle it: continue to try and provide clean, transparent information, and let the users decide with their votes in elections. “With so much of our discourse taking place online, I believe platforms like Facebook can
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Image copyright SOPA Images Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says users will be able to turn off political adverts on the social network in the run-up to the 2020 US election. In a piece written for USA Today newspaper, he also says he hopes to help four million Americans sign up as new voters. Facebook has
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Cox Communications is lowering Internet upload speeds in entire neighborhoods to stop what it considers “excessive usage,” in a decision that punishes both heavy Internet users and their neighbors. Cox, a cable company with about 5.2 million broadband customers in the United States, has been sending notices to some heavy Internet users warning them to
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Quarantine has changed the way we connect, online and off. As we rely on the internet more and more for work, social connections, and basic needs, it is time to talk about the future of meaningful online experiences, and the need for a new internet architecture. We need a user-focused, localized internet. This competitive architecture
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Facebook users can now manage their previous activity more efficiently by deleting or archiving old posts in bulk. It’s not always ideal to leave content on a personal profile that doesn’t reflect where a person is at in their life today. In an effort to mitigate any issues that may arise from old Facebook posts,
Twitter now offers its own method of scheduling tweets in advance, a feature that was once only available with third-party tools. When using Twitter in a web browser, users will now see an option to schedule a tweet from the composer screen. Not quite ready to send that Tweet? Now on https://t.co/fuPJa36kt0 you can save
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WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 28: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office before signing an … [+] executive order related to regulating social media on May 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump’s executive order could lead to attempts to punish companies such as Twitter and Google for attempting to point out factual inconsistencies
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TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apr 21, 2020– SoftwareReviews, a division of world-class IT research and consulting firm Info-Tech Research Group, announces the publication of its 2020 Web Conferencing Data Quadrant Awards today, naming five gold medalists based on reviews by real users. The following vendors are leaders according to software users’ answers to questions focused on user satisfaction
