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Facebook & Instagram Suffer 10 Hours Of Outage Disruption
Facebook And Instagram Outage While many of us in the UK and Europe have been blissfully sleeping through the drama, it seems that Facebook has encountered some pretty serious problems over night. In a report via the BBC, the social media site has confirmed that issues to the platform left…
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Improvements Underway To Make eTeknix Better For You!
Making eTeknix Better For You Earlier this year, eTeknix celebrated its 10th birthday. Yes, it barely seemed like yesterday when we were launching the website hoping to take the tech world by storm (we still do incidentally), but somehow all those years have passed in the blink of an eye.…
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Brian May Launches Stinging Attack On Apple
Brian May Launches Stinging Attack On Apple Brian May might currently be very pleased about how the recent release of the Queen biopic is going, but it seems he is a lot less happy with Apple at the moment. Specifically what he feels is the unnecessary replacement/change of the USB-C…
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Taking A Selfie Has Now Caused Over 250 Deaths
Taking A Selfie Has Now Caused Over 250 Deaths With the increase of phones being the primary device for our social media lives, it’s no surprise that ‘taking a selfie’ has become so popular. The term, on the extreme off-chance that you’re not familiar with it, means taking a picture…
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Instagram Co-Creators Leave Facebook To ‘Get Creative Again’
Instagram Co-Creators Leave Facebook To ‘Get Creative Again’ Back in 2012, Facebook had a pretty good feel of the technological ‘pulse’ as to what apps were doing quite well. As such, one of their earliest purchases (at least, of a ‘competing’ company) was Instagram. As part of the purchase, the…
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Mikes Rant – Social Media Needs Regulation Before It’s Too Late!
Mikes Rant 16 I am what you might call a ‘light’ user of social media. By that, I mean that I have a Facebook account, a Twitter account that I use on exceptionally rare occasions and absolutely nothing else. Nope, I have no Instagram, no WhatsApp and before the ladies…
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Social Media Users Urged To Quit For One Month!
Social Media Users Urged To Quit For One Month! I think it’s fairly safe to say that on the whole, social media probably isn’t very good for us. I mean, when you’re feeling a bit down about yourself there’s nothing that helps less than to see all your friends getting…
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EU Tells Internet Giants To Remove Bad Content Inside An Hour
EU Tells Internet Giants To Remove Bad Content Inside An Hour A major factor that social media and internet companies have had to deal with in recent years is hateful or illegal content people posted on their sites. It has gotten to the point that many companies have to specifically…
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Game Of Thrones Cast Instagram Post Teases Clue To Ending
Game Of Thrones Instagram Post Teases Clue To Ending Before I continue, I should give you a little warning. The following is based on an Instagram post from a star of TV hit series Game of Thrones. If you are not aware, filming of the final series has started to conclude…
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Uganda Issues Tax For People On Social Media
Uganda Issues Social Media Tax Social Media, for better or worse, is clearly a major part of our lives today. With people sometimes having several accounts across the variety of providers it seems clear that we are able to communicate in a very unique way. While this has provided both good…
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Instagram Releases Update Allowing Videos Up To 1 Hour Long
Instagram Launches Update To Increase Video Length From 60 Seconds Up To 1 Hour Instagram is doubtlessly one of the most popular social media apps currently out there. Seemingly picking up the pieces that Facebook and Twitter keep shedding, in terms of social media it has one of the largest…
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Instagram Reveals IGTV Service for Long Format Videos
IGTV is available for everyone. Well, if anyone’s going to compete with YouTube, it might as well be Instagram. The social media platform boasts more than one billion monthly active users, which is a testament to its outstanding progress. Back in 2012, when Facebook acquired it, Instagram had just 40…
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Wetherspoons Pub Chain Decides To Quit Social Media
Wetherspoons quits social media due to data scandal and trolling If you’re looking for a cheap pint and something to eat, you often can’t go wrong by going to a Wetherspoons. No, I’m not advertising for them and neither am I a spokesman (they’re certainly not paying me, sadly), but…
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Win a PC worth a £2,000 from GameMax UK
Ready, Set, Action! Shoot a Video, Win a PC GameMax UK is giving away a PC worth £2,000, and it does not require much to get an entry. Simply tell them on video how you would go about completely destroying your old PC. Bash it with a baseball bat? Melt…
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Facebook And Instagram Ban 135 Accounts With Russian Links
Facebook and Instagram Confirm Banning 135 Accounts With Kremlin Links The effect of Russian political propaganda on the west has been something of a contentious subject in the last couple years. Particularly when many believe that such propaganda may have had an effect on the result of the UK Brexit vote…
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