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November 7, 2018

Pew survey of 4,500 US adults: 34% regularly let their child on YouTube, with 47% saying they do occasionally; 61% say their kids encountered unsuitable videos (Douglas MacMillan/Wall Street Journal)

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: Pew survey of 4,500 US adults: 34% regularly let their child on YouTube, with 47% saying they do occasionally; 61% say their kids encountered unsuitable videos — Survey shows that most parents let their children watch the Google-owned video site, amid concern it is profiting from advertisements targeting minors

November 7, 2018

Review: Dell’s outstanding XPS 13 made me respect small laptops

I’ve always felt that bigger is better when it comes to laptops. Bring on the behemoths, I say. Hand me that Acer Predator or give me that Alienware 17. So it’s a bit of a shock (for me as well) that I’m convinced my favorite laptop of 2018 will ultimately be Dell’s little XPS 13.

November 7, 2018

Salesforce thinks it can fight spam with blockchain

You probably receive email marketing that was deployed on a Salesforce system multiple times a week, without even knowing it. Well, the cloud-based customer relationship management firm is now intent on using blockchain to curb the number of spam emails finding their way to inboxes. The US Patent and Trademark office published a document yesterday

November 7, 2018

EU’s investigation into Google AdSense is coming to a close

Margrethe Vestager, EU‘s Competition Commissioner, just confirmed that the EU‘s antitrust investigation into Google AdSense will soon be wrapped up. “We are approaching the end of that investigation,” Vestager told reporters at Web Summit in Lisbon, according to Reuters. The investigation’s findings have been greatly awaited as it could lead to Alphabet — Google’s parent company

November 7, 2018

How to build your own (cheap) cryptocurrency wallet with Raspberry Pi

Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. Pavol Rusnak, one of the main creative forces behind popular cryptocurrency wallet Trezor, has shared a nifty guide on how you can build your own cryptocurrency hardware wallet using a

Linux Fu: Pimp Your Pipes

One of the best things about working at the Linux (or similar OS) command line is the use of pipes. In simple terms, a pipe takes the output of one command and sends it to the input of another command. You can do a lot with a pipe, but sometimes it is hard to work

November 7, 2018

Here’s how to take photos and videos that don’t suck

The ability to snap images and capture clean video isn’t just a skill anymore. It’s practically a prerequisite for interpersonal communication now, not to mention a virtual work requirement in more and more industries. Come out the Dark Ages with the help of The Beginner-to-Expert Photography and Videography course bundle ($29, over 90 percent off,

November 7, 2018

Tencent founder and CEO Pony Ma says that WeChat now has 1M mini programs and 200M people are using them every day (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Tencent founder and CEO Pony Ma says that WeChat now has 1M mini programs and 200M people are using them every day — They may not be widely known outside of China, but Tencent’s mini program initiative to develop ‘apps’ that live outside of app stores is bearing fruit after it

Buy 4 new Tile Mate trackers, get an Amazon Echo Dot free – CNET

The third-generation Dot is worth $50 all by itself, and the Tiles are the new ones with replaceable batteries! Buy 4 new Tile Mate trackers, get an Amazon Echo Dot free – CNET Source: CNet

November 7, 2018

Facebook says it will not make political ad disclosure rules mandatory in UK on Nov. 7, says it wants to ensure the accuracy of disclaimers under the ads first (The Guardian)

The Guardian: Facebook says it will not make political ad disclosure rules mandatory in UK on Nov. 7, says it wants to ensure the accuracy of disclaimers under the ads first — Exclusive: Social network says it is improving process to stop abuse of disclaimer system — Facebook is delaying its plans … Facebook says

Samsung's foldable Galaxy F phone set to raise more questions than answers – CNET

The phone-maker is expected to share a sneak peek on Wednesday. Samsung's foldable Galaxy F phone set to raise more questions than answers – CNET Source: CNet

Facebook Messenger's Unsend feature is 'coming soon' – CNET

You’ll have 10 minutes to take back what you said. Facebook Messenger's Unsend feature is 'coming soon' – CNET Source: CNet

November 7, 2018

Spotify will now let free-tier subscribers stream music to Spotify Connect-enabled speakers; manufacturers will need latest Spotify SDK to enable the feature (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Spotify will now let free-tier subscribers stream music to Spotify Connect-enabled speakers; manufacturers will need latest Spotify SDK to enable the feature — Your speaker will need an update though — Spotify says it’s now letting free-tier subscribers stream music over Spotify Connect-enabled speakers. Spotify will now let free-tier subscribers

Sleep better with the best BedJet deal of the year – CNET

It’s Day 3 of CNET’s 10 Days of Deals! As seen on Shark Tank, the ingenious BedJet warms or cools your bed to whatever temperature helps you sleep best. Available at this price today only! Sleep better with the best BedJet deal of the year – CNET Source: CNet

November 7, 2018

AMEX blunder left thousands of Indian customers’ personal info unsecured

A database belonging to American Express India was accessible to anyone for more than five days during October. The unprotected database, which was discovered by Hacken cyber consultancy team’s director of Cyber Risk Research, Bob Diachenko on October 25, contained Amex customer names, phone numbers, addresses, PAN numbers, and Aadhaar IDs. Diachenko notes the database

November 7, 2018

Lads allegedly beat up their ‘friend’ to steal his Bitcoin

A cohort of young men have been accused of drunkenly assaulting their “friend” to extort the credentials to his cryptocurrency wallet, the New York Post reports. According to the report, the attackers demanded the victim “provide […] login information for his cryptocurrency accounts while holding his head underwater in the bathtub, punching him in the

iPhone XR vs iPhone XS: Is the XS camera worth the extra money? – CNET

The camera on the cheaper iPhone XR can do almost everything that the dual camera on the iPhone XS can, except when it comes to two important tasks. iPhone XR vs iPhone XS: Is the XS camera worth the extra money? – CNET Source: CNet

Microsoft: These new OneDrive features on iOS, Android, web, are headed your way

OneDrive gets new sharing prompts and fields to add metadata to scans. Microsoft: These new OneDrive features on iOS, Android, web, are headed your way Source: ZDNet Microsoft

November 7, 2018

This nifty free tool limits incoming email to 3 times per day

On average, we spend 47,000 hours answering emails throughout our careers. To put that number in perspective, we spend about 22,000 hours in school and university. Dealing with this steady influx of emails is not just annoying: It’s killing productivity and can even cause anxiety. Also, switching back and forth between tasks — for example,

November 7, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejects request to appear before an "international grand committee" of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27 (Associated Press)

Associated Press: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejects request to appear before an “international grand committee” of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27 — LONDON (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected a request to appear before an international parliamentary committee delving … Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejects request to

November 7, 2018

Alibaba’s Jack Ma opens a startup hub in Kigali to support Afrikan innovation

A new hub has been opened in Kigali, Rwanda which aims to assist the country’s small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as startups, to market and sell to Chinese consumers among many of its benefits. This comes after Rwanda became the first Afrikan country to be admitted to the Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP). The eWTP is the brainchild

November 7, 2018

Facebook Messenger will soon let users remove sent messages within 10 minutes after posting, release notes for an update to the iOS app say (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Facebook Messenger will soon let users remove sent messages within 10 minutes after posting, release notes for an update to the iOS app say — Soon you can have Zuckerberg powers — Facebook Messenger will soon allow you to delete sent messages up to 10 minutes after you’ve originally sent

Shakespeare in a Zip in a RAR, Hidden in an Image on Twitter

Steganography involves hiding data in something else — for example, encoding data in a picture. [David Buchanan] used polyglot files not to hide data, but to send a large amount of data in a single Twitter post. We don’t think it quite qualifies as steganography because the image has a giant red UNZIP ME printed

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg under pressure to attend international hearing – CNET

He’s already declined to appear in London, but that’s “not good enough.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg under pressure to attend international hearing – CNET Source: CNet

November 7, 2018

Hackers infect nearly 700,000 sites with Bitcoin-stealing malware

Cryptocurrency hackers have attacked one of the internet’s most used traffic analytics services, StatCounter, in order to siphon Bitcoin from users of online exchange desk Gate.io. In a targeted attack, hackers breached StatCounter to such an extent that over 688,000 websites were caught loading the malicious script, ZDNet reports. StatCounter is much akin to Google

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