It was just this morning that we reported on Lizard Squad claiming responsibility for the earlier Facebook and Instagram outage, now it seems that the hacking group has taken ...
January 28, 2015 at 8:58 am by Ryan Simmons
Rather than be subject to being blocked entirely in Turkey, Facebook has agreed to block “anti-Islamic” content within the country after a Turkish court order. Gölbaşı ...
January 28, 2015 at 7:28 am by Ashley Allen
Twitter is launching group direct messaging and video upload functionality, in a move that incites competition with its rival, Instagram. The direct messaging service allows ...
January 27, 2015 at 7:24 pm by Ashley Allen
Twitter has been messaging high-profile users, imploring them to tweet photos directly, rather than links to Instagram. The message includes an image comparison, showing the ...
January 24, 2015 at 9:58 am by Ashley Allen
An electric eel at Tennessee Aquarium has been tweeting from his tank, thanks to a modified Raspberry Pi. The eel, named Miguel Wattson, triggers tweets whenever he expels an ...
January 24, 2015 at 7:58 am by Ashley Allen
Twitter could save your life. Using the micro-blogging site as a diagnostic tool, the chances of someone succumbing to coronary heart disease can be plotted using their ...
January 23, 2015 at 4:58 am by Ashley Allen
Either someone employed at a Government facility has way to much time on his hand or some automatic process is running. One that is editing hundreds of Wikipedia entries each ...
January 21, 2015 at 3:58 pm by Bohs Hansen
HitchBOT, the Canadian hitchhiking robot, is set for a road trip across Germany. Last year, HitchBOT thumbed its way around Canada, from Halifax to Victoria, talking and ...
January 21, 2015 at 4:58 am by Ashley Allen
BlackBerry has been involved in a now common social media faux pas. The company sent out a tweet promoting Twitter for BlackBerry… on an iPhone. Yes, the company has ...
January 15, 2015 at 8:55 am by Ryan Simmons
The Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) and Fighting Fantasy books were childhood staples during the Eighties, an early yet gripping example of interactive fiction in which the ...
January 13, 2015 at 7:55 pm by Ashley Allen
On Monday, UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to essentially ban end-to-end internet encryption and to grant British intelligence access to any part of the web ...
January 13, 2015 at 6:55 pm by Ashley Allen
It appears that the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the US Central Command have been hacked. The hackers seem to associate themselves with ISIS. As of writing, the Twitter ...
January 13, 2015 at 8:55 am by Ryan Simmons
Details have emerged regarding Twitter’s forthcoming video function. According to a Twitter Video FAQ found by Daniel Raffel , it will support .mp4 and .mov formats, with ...
January 4, 2015 at 3:19 pm by Ashley Allen
There are always some people that become citizen journalists when the mainstream media fails to pick up on something or cover it as deeply as they would like, and the musician ...
January 2, 2015 at 6:58 pm by Bohs Hansen
Users of Origin, EA’s digital game distribution portal, have reported unauthorized access to their accounts, with activity including game purchases, game playing, and ...
December 31, 2014 at 11:58 pm by Ashley Allen
