Internet
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Relive the nightmare of an old-school computer virus at the new Malware museum
Feb 13, 2016 5:07 am - In the early days of computer viruses, a lot of malware had a tendency to announce its presence with some text or a flashy graphic. Now you can relive the sometimes funn...
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This is how Twitter's new timeline works
Feb 12, 2016 10:00 pm - Well, Twitter fans. The apocalypse has come. Twitter's reordered timeline is here. And it's, um, not so bad, actually. In a company blog post, Twitter engineering manage...
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Analysis: Twitter isn't Facebook, but Wall Street expects it to be. That's a problem.
Feb 12, 2016 10:00 pm - There was a whole lot of uproar over over reports that Twitter is planning to change its real-time messaging feed into something more like the Facebook News Feed. Under ...
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App reviews: Save the Line, Pac Man
Feb 12, 2016 10:00 pm - This quick little puzzler requires fast reflexes and lots of patience. Players are the stewards of a line, which you have to save from hitting all the obstacles the game...
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How you can win a Facebook argument
Feb 12, 2016 10:00 pm - Disagreements are a fact of life, whether you're online or off it. But it's a fact universally acknowledged that arguments are frequently more entrenched on the Internet...
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Will ad blocking software force you to pay more for less online?
Feb 06, 2016 6:35 am - Randall Rothenberg doesn't want anyone to forget the dangers posed by software that hides online advertising. Rothenberg, who runs the Interactive Advertising Bureau, ga...
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Facebook's 'teen dating' groups are every parent's nightmare come to life
Feb 06, 2016 6:32 am - Even before the page has fully loaded, the popular Facebook group "Teen Dating and Flirting" looks like a something straight out of some parental nightmare. It has the f...
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Facebook gets even closer to moving beyond the Like
Jan 30, 2016 6:18 am - If you feel limited by Facebook's emotional range, then you're really going to like what's coming next. The company announced that it would expand its set of in-network ...
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The Internet's favorite conspiracies would involve too many people to stay secret, says science
Jan 30, 2016 6:18 am - If NASA really faked the moon landing in 1969, about 411,000 people would have worked together to keep that information from the public, and the whole thing would have b...
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The big myth Facebook needs everyone to believe
Jan 30, 2016 6:18 am - In the middle of January, in a change noticed nowhere but Spain, Facebook added six words to a single dialogue box - and inadvertently stumbled into a tortuous national ...