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3 years ago+16 16 0How Bitcoin Tracers Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site
Welcome to Video’s customers thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity.
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3 years ago+22 22 0U.S. life expectancy falls for 2nd year in a row
The pandemic drove U.S. life expectancy down again in 2021 even though life-saving vaccines were widely available.
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3 years ago+36 36 0 x 1Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer
A team of cold case investigators say they have finally identified the Zodiac Killer, one of America's most prolific serial murderers who terrorized San Francisco in the late 1960s.
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5 years ago+21 21 0SXSW cancels its 400K-person conference due to coronavirus
SXSW has officially announced it will cancel its tech and music conference slated for March 13th to 22nd in Austin, TX due to concerns around coronavirus, though it’s exploring rescheduling.
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5 years ago+18 18 0Twitter to introduce ability to stop people replying to tweets
Measure is aimed at preventing antisocial behaviour and improving quality of discussion
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5 years ago+20 20 0The origin of the world’s first travel blog
Twenty-five years ago, an intrepid traveller circumnavigated the globe with a battery-powered laptop, and forever changed how the world travels.
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5 years ago+33 33 0 x 1Goodbye to the Influencer Decade, and Thanks for Nothing
Ten years ago, an unknown photo-sharing app called Instagram launched – and with it came a whole new breed of internet star.
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5 years ago+36 36 0 x 1WordPress introduces a new way for bloggers to get paid
Anyone with a paid WordPress blog or a blog that uses jetpack.com are eligible to use it
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5 years ago+29 29 0 x 1Happy 25th year, blogging. You’ve grown up, but social media is still having a brawl
The blogosphere remains a valuable source of information and insight
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5 years ago+24 24 0 x 1Facebook to Officially Start Hiding Like Counts on Posts
Users can see who liked a post but not the total amount of likes a post has received. Only the author of the post will be able to see the total count.
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5 years ago+21 21 0The best way of dealing with online trolls? Ignore them – and starve them of oxygen
As Countdown’s human calculator has shown with her Twitter abusers, blocking them – and not engaging – is a better way of dealing with them
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5 years ago+21 21 0Here’s what we know so far about the upcoming Facebook News tab
Facebook's News Tab is supposed to launch this fall; the company will pay some news publishers to syndicate their headlines and article previews.
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5 years ago+31 31 0 x 1Apple’s Watch Is Smarter, but My Casio Keeps Getting the Job Done
Casio’s basic watches have barely changed in decades, a rare achievement as planned obsolescence is elevated to a corporate art form, our columnist says.
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5 years ago+39 39 0 x 1YouTube faces creator backlash
YouTube's creator backlash is occurring as TikTok emerges as a creator favorite.
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5 years ago+51 51 0 x 1No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game
Triumph over five human opponents at Texas hold’em brings bots closer to solving complicated real-world problems.
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5 years ago+27 27 0Facebook breaks in a strange way
Facebook has stopped working properly, at the same time as WhatsApp. Rather than a total or global outage, the Facebook issue appears to be specific to certain features.
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5 years ago+45 45 0 x 1‘Dark patterns’ are steering many internet users into making bad decisions
A bipartisan bill in Congress would prohibit websites and online platforms from employing deliberately deceptive tactics.
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5 years ago+43 43 0 x 1When Myspace Was King, Employees Abused a Tool Called ‘Overlord’ to Spy on Users
Several employees were caught abusing the tool, which let them read users’ messages and passwords.
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5 years ago+40 40 0 x 1Facebook reveals Libra, its momentous new crypto, to the world
Facebook says its “stablecoin,” will empower billions and underpin a stunningly ambitious global economy. And it promises to keep its hands off your transactional data.
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5 years ago+41 41 0 x 1Japan plans new driver's license system for elderly as accidents surge
In the wake of a slew of fatal accidents involving elderly drivers, the government plans to create a new driver's license system that limits senior citizen