Category: Internet

Google Maps adds a city-themed ‘Snake’ game

[ad_1] Google has a habit of introducing goodies on April Fools that last long after the gags are over, and that isn’t changing for 2019. The company has added a Snake game to Google Maps that lets you play the classic title themed around major cities. You’ll play as an ever-growing double decker bus snapping […]

Investigators say Saudi Arabia accessed Jeff Bezos’ phone

[ad_1] The Saudi government reportedly relied extensively on covert phone surveillance as part of the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to the New York Times and de Becker’s expert consultants. And when the Post (owned by Bezos) started covering Khasoggi’s murder in earnest starting October 2018, the Saudis started attacking Bezos and […]

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg proposes four ways to regulate the internet

[ad_1] Zuckerberg also pushed for regulations that set “common standards” for verifying people behind political ads. He hoped for a “globally harmonized framework” for data privacy akin to the European Union’s GDPR to improve overall data protection without leading to a “fractured” internet. To top things off, the exec hoped for a guarantee of data […]

Apple Music code hints at Chromecast support

[ad_1] Whether or not Apple Music is coming to Google Home, there are signs you might get to use it with some Google-powered devices. The 9to5Google team has found multiple lines of code in Apple Music’s Android app that reference Chromecast support, including some added through recent updates. While there’s no guarantee this would be […]

Facebook axed its bird-size internet drones before they even flew

[ad_1] It’s not entirely clear how pigeonet would’ve worked, but the report says the drones were designed to carry small solid-state drives filled with media. That suggests that they were meant to relay information between traditional mobile infrastructure from afar and people’s phones. What’s crystal is that Facebook didn’t conceptualize the technology as a complete […]

Google users can sign into Firefox and Edge with a security key

[ad_1] There’s just one gotcha: as the key registration process still relies on the older Universal Second Factor standard, you’ll have to use Chrome to add a key to your account. It’ll “take some time” before you can rely solely on a third-party browser, Google’s Christiaan Brand said. Still, that support is at least on […]

Facebook says it accidentally deleted some of Mark Zuckerberg’s posts

[ad_1] It’s not clear exactly what posts vanished beyond the 2007-2008 time frame, but they include a post about the acquisition of Instagram in 2012 as well as news of company chef Josef Desimone’s death in 2013. The company stressed that it believed people should have access to previous company news through its blog and […]

Australian bill could imprison social network execs over violent content

[ad_1] Platform hosts would also have to notify Australia if they discover their service is streaming violent content taking place within the country. If they don’t, they could face fines up to $168,000 AUD for an individual and $840,000 AUD for a company. The new legislation would ultimately be similar to those requiring companies to […]

Airbnb and the hidden cameras

[ad_1] Airbnb has a hidden-camera problemSidney Fussell,The Atlantic Airbnb may be a good alternative to staying in a pricey hotel, but the company is dealing with a hidden camera problem. The Atlantic takes a look a the issue and what Airbnb says its doing to fix it. [ad_2] Source link