An Update from Essential: "we have made the difficult decision to cease operations and shutdown Essential" Article 289 words 9 votes
Microsoft to forcibly install Bing search extension in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus users google microsoft.office browsers Article 351 words 29 votes
Surveillance on UK council websites - A study of private companies’ data collection on council websites across the United Kingdom privacy google Article 330 words 8 votes
Farmers are buying forty-year-old tractors because they're actually repairable Article 398 words 21 votes
Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2020 looking for exhibitors, speakers, and volunteers Article 388 words 7 votes
The performance advancements of the Radeon open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers over 2019 linux Article 282 words 8 votes
Facebook is working on its own OS that could reduce its reliance on Android facebook android Article 383 words 7 votes
Google leadership set 2023 as deadline to beat Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud business amazon.web services google.cloud platform Article 182 words 6 votes
LogMeIn (owner of LastPass, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, OpenVoice and join.me) is being acquired by private equity firms for $4.3 billion Article 269 words 23 votes
YouTube star PewDiePie has announced he is taking a break from the platform, saying he is "feeling very tired" social media Article 266 words 24 votes
Telenor has picked Sweden's Ericsson as the key technology provider for its 5G telecoms network in Norway Article 78 words 4 votes
Amazon doesn’t report its warehouse injury rates — but we have an inside look amazon Article 204 words 13 votes
Finland launches data security guarantee label – certification symbol serves as a guarantee to consumers that a device's basic information security features are in order security Article 361 words 12 votes
Finland is preparing to defend itself against a mysterious activist group threatening to carry out cyberattacks – unless it gets some Bitcoin security.cyber Article 243 words 7 votes
Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival' facebook social media Article 329 words 30 votes
Twitter adds 'hide reply' function to try to improve online conversation social media Article 237 words 7 votes
SoftBank-controlled Yahoo Japan agrees to merge with Line Corp., creating a combined company worth about $30 billion Article 58 words 7 votes
Introducing Basecamp Personal - A completely free Basecamp plan designed specifically for freelancers, students, families, and personal projects Article 380 words 5 votes
EU passes “Right to repair” Law to make large appliances easier to repair starting from 2021 Article 341 words, published Oct 2 2019 31 votes
Facebook and Instagram ban usage of "commonly sexual emojis" along with solicitations for nude images or sex facebook social media Article 355 words 10 votes
Google owner Alphabet has made an offer to acquire wearable device maker Fitbit google Article 117 words 9 votes
Firefox to get page translation feature, like Chrome browsers Article 379 words, published Oct 20 2019 11 votes
US Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system Article 341 words 14 votes
Yahoo Groups will prevent new content from being uploaded on October 28, and all previous content will be deleted on December 14 social media internet Article 177 words 12 votes
Rwanda's Mara X, Z are the first smartphones made fully in Africa smartphones android Article 352 words 16 votes
Norway does not plan to block China's Huawei Technologies from building the country's 5G telecoms network Article 396 words 5 votes
Introducing hand tracking on Oculus Quest - Bringing your real hands into VR Article 322 words 11 votes
Kuo: Apple to debut Tile-like tracker next week, new iPhone design in 2020 apple smartphones Article 395 words 7 votes
US Senator says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should face ‘possibility of a prison term’ facebook social media Article 309 words 14 votes
Google to pay up to $200M to settle FTC investigation into YouTube over violations of children's privacy laws google privacy social media Article 154 words 7 votes
BangBros bought PornWikiLeaks.com—a website devoted to doxing and harassing porn performers—solely to shut it down and remove all information associated with it privacy Article 337 words 26 votes
Swedish data protection agency has issued the country's first GDPR fine after a school was found improperly using facial recognition technology privacy Article 346 words 7 votes
Norway's first battery-powered aircraft crash-landed on a lake on Wednesday Article 215 words 10 votes
US Republican Party boycotting Twitter ads over Mitch McConnell’s campaign Twitter lock social media Article 399 words 10 votes
8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service internet social media Article 372 words 47 votes