In this day and age, technology and how it’s used evolves just as much as species have in millions of years. The change often comes with big news, and with social media ...
July 12, 2016 at 8:20 pm by Gareth Andrews
We all enjoy browsing the internet, viewing all your favourite sites and then suddenly you find a pop up appear advertising a new product that you “must buy” or a ...
March 12, 2016 at 9:00 am by Gareth Andrews
Ever since it’s introduction, the EU’s right to be forgotten has been controversial and misguided to say the least. Under the law, Google and other search ...
March 11, 2016 at 12:30 pm by Samuel Wan
Web status codes are sent by websites to give you a summary when you attempt to access them, from the classic 404 error telling you that there is no content found, to less ...
December 21, 2015 at 10:00 am by Gareth Andrews
Mark Zuckerberg has built a powerhouse in the form of Facebook which has both revolutionized the notion of a social network for consumers and also provided a platform for ...
September 29, 2015 at 11:00 am by Christopher Files
Since new CEO Steve Huffman took the reins at reddit, its community has been bracing itself for a promised purge of the site’s “dark side”, where users engage in ...
August 23, 2015 at 10:30 am by Ashley Allen
First it was gay emojis and memes. Now mother Russia is threatening to ban the whole of reddit, unless the site’s administrators start banning marijuana-growing tutorials. ...
August 11, 2015 at 6:00 pm by Ashley Allen
“It’s not the level playing field that we once thought it would be,” Jennifer Granick lamented. She was talking about the internet, and how it is slowly ...
August 6, 2015 at 8:45 pm by Ashley Allen
China has plans to take internet censorship to a whole new level, placing members of a real-life cyberpolice within the country’s biggest online companies to make sure they ...
August 6, 2015 at 7:30 pm by Ashley Allen
Following new CEO Steve Huffman’s announcement that reddit is to implement a cull of the social news site’s “dark side”, a former Chief Executive has warned that it ...
July 18, 2015 at 8:00 am by Ashley Allen
Steve Huffman, the new CEO of reddit following the resignation of maligned former chief executive Ellen Pao, has announced that, under his watch, the news and social ...
July 16, 2015 at 7:00 am by Ashley Allen
An algorithm has been compiled which analyses colour images and flags anything deemed to be nude content. The website, isitnude.com launched this month and allows users to ...
July 6, 2015 at 11:30 pm by John Williamson
Violent media has long been a scapegoat for societal ills: from the 1960s through to the 1980s, conservative reactionary Mary Whitehouse waged a one-woman war on social ...
March 24, 2015 at 9:28 pm by Ashley Allen
Greatfire.org is a site that collects data on the Great Firewall of China and shares real-time and historical information about blocked web sites and searches, with a ...
March 20, 2015 at 2:28 pm by Bohs Hansen
Jonatan Söderströmm, co-creator of video game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, has told Australians that, if they want to play the game, they should “just pirate it”. ...
January 19, 2015 at 11:58 am by Ashley Allen
