Google’s battle against inappropriate content on its video platform rages on. YouTube removed 7.85 million videos and 1.67 million channels between July and September, according to its latest YouTube Community Guidelines enforcement report. This is the fourth such report YouTube has published, but the first that includes information about removing channels, versus just individual videos. YouTube […] Read more

Facebook bug exposed photos from up to 6.8 million users using third-party apps, the company disclosed Friday. The exposed photos include those that users never finished sharing to the site, Facebook said. The disclosure is one of several privacy breaches the company has shared over the past year. In March, reports from the New York […] Read more

Most browsers have a way of letting you change the “User Agent” — the thing that tells a website what kind of device you’re on. So, even when you’re on a laptop or desktop, you can trick a website like Instagram into showing you the mobile site. That’s what we’re going to do. Safari On […] Read more

Facebook’s core platform netted more users, but they’re using the site less, leading to what Wieser estimates is a 20% decline in consumption per person. Facebook’s overall consumption share of the digital market dropped from 16.5% in September 2017 to 14.3% currently. However, Facebook is still the second-most popular digital platform, behind Google at 32.5%. Verizon-owned […] Read more

Whether you have an iPhone, an Android, or another type of smartphone, you probably have a lot of apps in there. Some of these apps can be really useful, and some just take up a lot of space. To make the most out of your phone, you should download several important apps. Some of these incredible apps […] Read more

Developers can create apps that can change the way that smartphones are used. The apps that they create can add new features to phones and revolutionize phones. All apps are not created equal. Some apps add nothing of value to the phone, may add features that are useless to those that download them, or even […] Read more

Here are 6 ways I see us transforming as a culture, based on the possibilities now afforded to us by connections and technology: 1. Challenging the Status Quo Before we could reach out to anyone on the planet, did we ever see anything as amazing as the projects and successes associated with challenged paradigms in […] Read more

Eichstaedt and colleagues analyzed data from almost 1,200 people who agreed to provide their Facebook status updates and their electronic medical records. Of these participants, only 114 had a history of depression. Study co-author Raina Merchant says, “For this project, all individuals [have] consented, no data is collected from their network, the data is anonymized, […] Read more

Another day another tragic story, this time it’s rather an unbelievably crucial story of a 17 years old Moroccan girl who goes by the names khadija. This story has become viral on Social Media in Morocco; however, not all opinions were one sided, the story has created a bipartisan split in society.  The girl accused […] Read more