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Twitter beefs up security with two-step login
NEW YORK - Aiming to tackle recent high-profile breaches, popular micro-blogging site Twitter is introducing an optional two-step login for users to beef up security. The new system would try to ensure "it's really you" when a user signs in to Twitter, which transmits some 400 million messages a day. The move follows recent attacks into the twitter accounts of news organisations' such as ...
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Majority of teenagers now flocking to Twitter as Facebook enthusiasm wanes Study
Teenagers are now turning to Twitter as their enthusiasm for Facebook is waning, a new study has found. The new report from the Pew Research Centre in America showed that teenagers "have waning enthusiasm" for Facebook, and increasingly seen as a burden. The report cited a number of reasons for the decreased enthusiasm in Facebook, including an 'increasing number of adults on the site', the ...
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Penitent Warner fined 5750 dollars by CA for Twitter rant
Australian Test cricketer David Warner has copped a 5750-dollar fine from Cricket Australia for his Twitter rant controversy. Warner had pleaded guilty to unbecoming behaviour after his expletive-laden criticism of senior News Ltd cricket writers Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn for an article by Craddock exposing the sleazy nightlife and alleged corruption within the Indian Premier League ...
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West Islip superintendent 12 students punished after using Facebook to cheat
Search schools for cheating investigations Twelve West Islip ninth-graders have been punished for using Facebook to cheat on biology homework, laboratory assignments and a recent exam, the district's superintendent confirmed Thursday.The group used the social media site to share answers -- including posting a photo of an answer sheet to the exam for other students to access while they ...
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Googles conversational search lets you chat with your search engine
An example of a spoken search; the relevant date was spoken aloud. Google has issued an update to its Chrome browser that lets you use everyday language like "how do I get there?" to interact with its search -- and lets the browser respond vocally as well. It's still an early form of what the search giant demonstrated on stage at Google I/O, but it's an indicator of features ...
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Tangled [Blu-Ray]
For Tangled, their 50th animated feature, Disney Animation has turned to Rapunzel, one of the last fairy tales that has not been given the big-screen Mouse House overhaul. Keeping only the slightest vestiges of the original Brothers Grimm story (including a few choice moments in which cha ... ...
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Pittsburgh on the Hudson Wrong city in NY City campaign logo
Weiner, the candidate who infamously resigned from the U.S. Congress two years ago in a sexting scandal, unveiled a video announcing his mayoral candidacy and a campaign logo on his website on ...
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Watch a brain surgery over Twitter Instagram and Vine
, but it may be the first to employ 6-second video medium Vine as part of the proceedings. Surgeons on Thursday implanted a brain pacemaker to counteract the effects of Parkinson's disease in a patient and sent out Twitter updates using both Instagram and Vine. The procedure has generated such memorable tweets as "Removing the skin and drilling through the skull for electrode ...
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Homegrown talent An answer to Silicon Valleys STEM shortage Video
If youve heard it once, youve heard it a million times: Silicon Valley has a serious tech talent problem. Microsoft Corp,s can attest to that first hand. We have 6,000 job openings more than half of which are for high tech jobs that we cannot fill, said Sid Espinosa, Microsofts director of corporate citizenship at an event at the tech giants Mountain View campus on Thursday. We have to go ...
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How DrupalCon coders are helping Oklahoma City recover
About 70 DrupalCon attendees helped conceive and develop the help4ok.org website to assist with recovery efforts in Oklahoma City. More than 70 developers attending DrupalCon in Portland this week took time out to make a major contribution to the recovery effort in Oklahoma City. Twenty-four people were killed and more than 1,000 homes were damaged or destroyed when a massive tornado swept ...
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The unanswered question after earnings Will HPs bets pay off
Hewlett-Packard is way up. Is its salvation at hand? Hewlett-Packard Co.'s earnings yesterday weren't great, but the stock price closed up more than 17 percent at $24.86 today. A deeper dive into the financials reveals the reason why: While revenue is slipping in basically every category besides printers, HP has slashed its expenditures, increased its cash flow, paid down debt, and has ...
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