A few weeks after emerging from invite-only status, social network Bluesky has taken another major step toward doing the thing that makes it more than just a Twitter X clone: it’s opened the doors for federation. In a nutshell, that means the Bluesky network isn’t just going to be hosted on Bluesky’s servers anymore. Anyone […]
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Lilbits: Is this the Pixel Fold?
Google is widely believed to be working on its first smartphone with a foldable OLED display. While the company hasn’t officially confirmed anything, details have been leaking for more than a year, and it would certainly make sense – the company has put a lot of effort recently into making Android an operating system that […]
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Lilbits: Google acquires company that lets you turn Windows PCs into Chromebooks (and other recent tech news)
4 Comments on Lilbits: Google acquires company that lets you turn Windows PCs into Chromebooks (and other recent tech news)A company called Neverware has been offering software called CloudReady that lets you turn old computers into pseudo Chromebooks since 2015. But in order to do that, the company has been using software based on Chromium OS, the open source version of Chrome OS. Now Google has acquired the company and, among other things, that […]
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Former Google Plus users to get (a little) money from class action settlement
Google shut down its Google+ social network last year after the company decided that not enough people were using it to justify the trouble of keeping it up and running and… you know, bug free. That last part accelerated Google’s timeline for ending the service, after a major security vulnerability was discovered in late 2018. […]
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Now’s as good a time as any to change your Facebook password
So you may have heard, but the past few years haven’t been so great for Facebook when it comes to public relations. But if you’ve been wondering what could possibly make things worse, here’s an idea: what if it turns out Facebook was caught storing hundreds of millions of users’ passwords in plain text? Oh […]
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SmugMug acquires Flickr, promises to breathe new life into it
Before Imgur and Instagram, there was Flickr, an image hosting site and community that was a pioneer of allowing users to embed content on blogs, social media, and other web pages a year before YouTube began offering something similar for online video. A few years later Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion and Yahoo acquired […]
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US election aftermath: Twitter cracks down on harassment, Facebook and Google ad networks ban fake news sites
Comments Off on US election aftermath: Twitter cracks down on harassment, Facebook and Google ad networks ban fake news sitesThe 2016 presidential election results have wide-ranging implications in a number of fields. In the tech world, we’re already starting to see the impact as Google and Facebook take steps to combat fake news sites (which some people blame for distributing misinformation during the lead-up to the election), and Twitter’s move to roll out new […]
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Twitter launches Periscope for live video streaming from your phone
Meerkat move over… there’s another app that lets you stream live video from your smartphone and share it through Twitter. It’s called Periscope, and it’s run by Twitter. That helps explain why Twitter cut off rival Meerkat’s access to its social graph recently. So what is Periscope, and does it spell Meerkat’s doom? Taking the second part […]