Even the biggest tech giants are prone to mistakes. While it was far from being the most popular social media platform, Google+ shut down will impact more than 352 million users who have used the service because it was tied with other Google products. Additionally, Alphabet Inc. announced that more than 52 million G+ users
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How does a VPN work? When Eric Arthur Blair, also known as George Orwell, wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four after the Second World War, he probably couldn’t even imagine the level of sophistication the future surveillance society will have and don’t get us wrong; we do live in a surveillance society. While today we are not at
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In the age of smartphones, smart devices, and the Internet of Things (IoT), it should be obvious for most users that protecting all of your devices with a VPN, as well as other security measures, should be a must. The main reason why we use a Virtual Private Network is to protect and conceal our
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While the end to end encryption, or E2EE, is one of the simplest encrypting tools around, it is also the only reliable technique to protect your data from anyone luring between you and the person you are sending a message to. Regretfully, only a handful of SMS and messaging platforms use this option, and most
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With a recent Skype ban in the UAE, one of the biggest internet video calling services joins the ranks of other popular VoIP services blocked in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), including WhatsApp’s video calling, Apple’s FaceTime, and Google’s Duo. Skype app has been known as a safe and secure service to allow voice and
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While not being a television in the strictest sense of the word, Netflix has revolutionized the way we use our TV. No ads, no commercials, and the ability to binge-watch your favorite shows from start to finish in only one sleepless night, there is no person alive who doesn’t enjoy a little Netflix, with or
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Although we can all agree that the title of this technology and its application forces us to immediately assume surveillance and police work, we have to at least start wondering about its use and whether in part, or as a whole concept, it invades our rights and privacy. To start with, at the very baseline
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Two most frequent questions about cryptocurrency are if it can be tracked and if it can be hacked. While the short answer on both of those questions is a direct ‘’no”, a more informed person will tell you that, as always, it depends. This is a short story to remind you that the risks are
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To steer clear from the internet, or better said Internet-based information, in the 21st century is almost impossible unless you have made a clear and conscious decision to abandon modern society and live free like Robinson Crusoe. Since the later is not only a fictional character trapped in a castaway circumstance void of his own
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What is the Internet of Things? By the time your eyes are passing these few saturated pixels on the screen of your device, there is something that has already read the whole article and defined all the characteristics from the whole page that are of interest, your device. As the number of people browsing the
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