Google had launched an upgrade for YouTube Music that allows users to download songs, albums, and playlists for listening offline. This is not the first time YouTube is allowing users to save content offline. Users can already save their favorite

Nintendo has made a shocking revelation about its user accounts. As many as 160,000 accounts were affected during the recent hacking attempts. The Japanese videogame and consumer electronics company confirmed that hackers were able to gain access to the login ID

It seems that Microsoft Xbox One users in some parts of the world are not happy with the controllers as they have reportedly been suffering from "stick drift" issue similar to the Nintendo's Joy-Cons. An angry gaming enthusiast filed a class-action

WhatsApp Payments, a UPI-based payment service was launched in India two years back but it was called off as it failed to get the necessary approvals in the country. In the meantime, it looks like the Facebook-owned instant messaging platform will

Zoom video conferencing platform has seen exponential growth in user-base since coronavirus lockdown across the globe. It offers both free and paid subscription plans with support for up to 1000 participants. When it comes to security, the service has been questioned

WhatsApp seems to be testing a new feature that will allow users to share their Status to Facebook and other platforms, The Verge reported. WhatsApp Status is basically the Facebook Stories' counterpart, and the new feature would make it possible for

If you are an Instagram user, you might not appreciate the piece of information you're about to receive. A 'lax oversight' on the platform leveraged by a San Francisco-based startup has led to a data breach of millions of users. This

Instagram has become one of the most used social networking services in recent years. However, the app couldn't verify its users' right age group. Due to which even underage users are able to use the app, by submitting false credentials. To

Facebook recently started rolling out an option to enable dark mode on Whatsapp and Instagram. Now, the company started to beta test dark mode on Facebook itself. However, as of now dark mode for Facebook is limited to desktop mode and

Facebook has over 300 million users in India. The social media platform has announced that It will actively start notifying those users who have liked, commented on, or shared COVID-19 related misinformation. Facebook hopes the step will stop the spread of wrong

Anonymous hackers recently listed more than five lakh Zoom user data on the dark web for less than a penny per account. On the same line, a new report suggests that a hacker has sold more than 26.5 crore Facebook user's

Computer scientists have developed a novel method for providing concrete proof to internet users that their information did not cross through certain undesired geographic areas. The new system called "Alibi Routing" offers advantages over existing systems as it is

Its festival season, and many e-commerce sites including Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon are making a big sale offers. Most popularly, Flipkart is making a huge buzz in the market with its Big Billion Sale festival. The e-commerce site is claiming to

YouTube will now charge users to watch most of the freshly uploaded content, under paid subscription. If this doesn't sound good to those YouTube users who are hooked to the music and video streaming site for accessing content for free, the

According to new survey by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), India will have more than 850 million online users by 2025. The survey said that, "while it took the country eight years to reach 250 million 3G connections, Reliance Jio 4G

According to the report by Boston Consulting Group ( BCG), half of all internet users will be rural, 40 percent will be women, and 33 percent will be 35 or older. The report said that internet penetration has been, and

With the lockdown situation prevailing across the globe due to coronavirus outbreak, the workforce has resorted to remote working mode. And to stay connected, an online video conferencing platform like Zoom is what helping the companies with meetings. However,

Google Store is an online hardware device shipper, managed by Google. It sells many accessories like Google Pixel devices, Nest products, earbuds, phone cases, chargers, etc. And, there are times when these e-commerce websites make errors while shipping. One

Tara Reade, the woman who alleges Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, said in a video interview on Thursday that he should withdraw from the White House race. Gloria Tso reports.

BEIJING - Grunts, groans and the sound of pulsing music and crashing weights have returned to some of Beijing's gyms after being closed for nearly three months due to the coronavirus outbreak.

BEIJING - Grunts, groans and the sound of pulsing music and crashing weights have returned to some of Beijing's gyms after being closed for nearly three months due to the coronavirus outbreak.

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In this 90-minute webinar, we will show you how to get around in the software and what functions are available to make you more productive. Includes an in depth look at Family Coupling, File attachments and the Pathfinder, what they are and how to use them to improve your productivity. This session is intended for those who are new to the Cantax software and those who would like a refresher of all the menu items and their function.

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The national Amber Alert system for missing children -- already on highway billboards, mobile phones and the Internet -- is extending its reach to Facebook, the globes biggest social site.

The Menlo Park social media giant announced Tuesday that it is partnering with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to send geographically targeted Amber Alerts to the members of the U.S. Facebook community.

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There is a very easy-to-use workaround that will give you instant access to Twitter RSS feeds, although it may only be a matter of time before Twitter kills that off too.

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Feedly has become one of the best ways to keep up with your RSS feeds. One key feature that’s been missing, however, is the ability to bulk share a collection of sources. Now, Feedly is adding this feature to Feedly Pro.

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Facebook is under quite a bit of pressure of late. It's trying to fix the rise of fake news and clickbait on its News Feed and, more recently, it's had to deal with the Zenimax lawsuit against Oculus. But all of that hasn't eaten into Facebook's bottom line. As its Q4 2016 earnings report shows, the company once again raked in cash hand over fist, with $8.8 billion in revenue and $3.56 billion in profit.

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When it comes to social media, especially Facebook and Twitter, I am guarded when it comes to whom I friend or follow. I use Facebook almost exclusively to connect with friends, family or business acquaintances. I use Twitter mostly for news and commentary that's of interest to me personally.

But there is another social media site I use a lot, and that is LinkedIn. LinkedIn differs from Facebook and Twitters generalized social interactions by focusing on helping people make and maintain professional connections. LinkedIn was purchased last year by Microsoft for $26.2 billion, and has become Redmonds foray into social media.

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Instagram is starting to roll out recommended posts directly into users’ home feeds, according to TechCrunch.

Previously, the home feed was dedicated to posts from accounts that users follow as well as ads, whereas recommended posts were located solely in the Explore tab.

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Instagram announced some changes to user feeds today, but before you get too excited, no it is not a return to the chronological feed.

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The social network ended the third quarter with 2.27 billion monthly active users, up slightly from the 2.23 billion it had last quarter.
As problems persist for Facebook over its handling of user data, the social networking giant revealed that user growth continued to slow during its third-quarter earnings report on Monday.

Facebook had 2.27 billion monthly active users (MAUs) during the quarter, up 10 percent year-over-year but only up slightly from the 2.23 billion it reported at the end of the second quarter. In the U.S., Facebook added just 1 million MAUs. Meanwhile, it lost 1 million MAUs in the Europe. Most of the company's growth came from Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world.

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Wish you could follow a couple of Twitter or Instagram users, without setting up an account? Create an RSS feed for them.

RSS Hub is an open source project that creates RSS feeds from a wide variety of websites, including social media pages. You can install this on your own server, but it’s not necessary for most users.

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If you opened up Instagram today and found that your timeline orientation was totally switched, you were not alone. It appears that quite a few users had a timeline that moved left to right, where posts could be tapped through as they can be in stories.

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How do you spot a fake?

When users of Microsofts Edge mobile browser visit a news website with a dubious reputation, they will now get a warning to proceed with caution.

As spotted by The Guardian, Microsoft has partnered with the news watchdog organization NewsGuard to provide Edge users with more information about the news veracity of the site they are visiting.

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A long-running feud was thrust back into the spotlight today with a contentious report claiming that over half of Facebooks monthly active users are actually fake.  

The report, written by Facebook critic Aaron Greenspan, alleges that the social media giant has no way to accurately measure its true user base — or in other words, accounts that are matched up to real people — and that Facebooks reported metrics substantially overestimate the number of real monthly active users.

Notably, Greenspan is a former Harvard classmate of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. I

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Wish you could follow a couple of Twitter or Instagram users, without setting up an account? Create an RSS feed for them.

RSS Hub is an open source project that creates RSS feeds from a wide variety of websites, including social media pages. You can install this on your own server, but it is not necessary for most users.

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The Facebook Cambridge Analytica revelations changed the way people in the US think about online privacy. And it should come as no surprise that many have grown wary over the mishandling of personal information.

Nearly a year later, a majority of US internet users said that Facebook sharing data with Cambridge Analytica raised some level of concern over how their information is used online, per survey findings from text message marketing company SlickText.

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Stacey Ewing created a wonderful new handout on types of adaptive services we offer users here in Library West. If you have any free moments the next time you staff the InfoPoint, I encourage you to take a look at this guide.

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