Facebook is working internally on the development of a new version of its Instagram social network aimed at underage users, specifically those under 13 years of age, below the current minimum version of the app for adults. This has been revealed by internal documents of Instagram executives to which BuzzFeed News has had access. Instagram plans to “speed up privacy work” to ensure an experience “as secure as possible” In them, the Vice President of Product of Instagram, Vishal Shah, assured her employees on Thursday that “youth work has been identified as a priority” in the first half of 2021.…
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Will Apple limit the development that Nvidia has made of its streaming platform? It remains to be seen, but for the moment, it is possible to play your streaming games library through Safari Apple does not have a good relationship with video game streaming services because it cannot control exactly what is broadcast on its mobiles. Neither Amazon nor Google seem to pass the filter with their Luna or Stadia apps. Hence, you have to look for alternative solutions: Nvidia, for example, today launched the beta of GeForce Now for Safari, the Internet browser on Mac and iOS devices. In…
A fire on OVH servers leaves many companies without service and may have caused irreparable damage to many digital services A fire has destroyed and left many others in Strasbourg without service at the headquarters of OVH, one of the largest hosting companies in Europe. Its infrastructure is essential for a multitude of online services, many of which have been affected and do not have an estimated recovery time. The authorities have confirmed that none of the data center employees have been damaged and all are safe. Among some of the big names affected by the fire are the government…
WhatsApp will once again show its users “in the coming weeks” notifications about its new Conditions and Privacy policy, which it postponed last January, with additional information, before its entry into force as of May 15. After stopping short by the large number of complaints from its users, WhatsApp returns to the load to update its privacy policies This has been assured in a statement by the messaging application, owned by Facebook, which has wanted to “clear up any confusion” before the arrival of the new WhatsApp service conditions. In response to the controversy, WhatsApp has recognized that “it could…
Although optional, Amazon encourages its employees to indulge in video games that promote competitiveness among peers. That Amazon has business policies, at best, questionable is not news. But the limits to which it reaches, and to which it pushes its employees, remain staggering. The last, creating video games so that employees compete with each other to see who does the most tasks as quickly as possible. Such a dystopian practice that seems to be taken from a science fiction novel is already applied in warehouses in at least 20 states in the United States and the ultimate goal is not…
PlayStation has presented this Thursday its new virtual reality controller for PlayStation VR, made up of two new controllers that introduce a circular design and that introduce some functions from the PS5 DualSense controller such as adaptive triggers. Inspired by the improvements of the PS5 DualSense, these new controllers are designed to convey more sensations when playing with virtual reality Thanks to its spherical design, the new PlayStation VR controller can be held naturally, leaving gamers hands free, as the Sony-owned company said in a statement. This new controller enhances gameplay immersion by including some of the features present in…
The most elementary computer security standards say that we have to have a different password for everything. In practice, this means having to remember more than 20 different passwords and knowing which service each of them corresponds to. Cybersecurity experts tell us that we should never repeat passwords. This is a precautionary measure that seeks to avoid a domino effect in the event of a password hacking or leakage. In this way, if there is a leak or a security failure in any website, app or service, the fact that the password is exposed will only affect a specific site…
We want to present you with a guide that will allow you to enter the main darknets that make up the Dark Web, known colloquially as the Deep Web, although this last term has another meaning. The hidden Internet or Dark Web is a portion of the network in which certain applications are needed to be able to connect, and that is precisely what we are going to help you, to download and configure these tools to enter them. We are going to show you how to connect to four different darknets. The first will be TOR, which is probably…
The Internet we have today is broken. We do not control our data, nor do we have a native securities settlement layer. Thirty years after the massive adoption of the Internet, our data architectures continue to be based on the concept of autonomous computers, where data is stored and managed centrally on a server, and is sent or retrieved by a client. Every time we interact over the Internet, copies of our data are sent to a service provider’s server, and every time that happens, we lose control over our data. Although we live in a connected world, with more…
For web design, websites with great text content are a problem for the user to capture the information that we want to transmit. To find out if a web design contains too much text, there is a little trick. The web designer must settle into his chair and with narrowed eyes must leaf through the page. By inspecting the web design in this way, you will get the same results as any new user to your website. The reason?Simple, users do not read, they browse. So can you find the information easily? Click where you want ?. In case the…