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  • Twitter beefs up security with two-step login 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 ...

  • Facebook doesnt excite teens anymore

    The interest of teenagers is moving away from social networking platform Facebook, and they prefer "parent-free" platforms, according to a survey. The survey, conducted by Pew Research Center, indicates how teenagers' enthusiasm for Facebook is diminishing. The authors of the Pew report wrote how Facebook is now a "social burden" for teenaged users. "While Facebook is still deeply integrated ...

  • Video Senators fans go pantless in Rihannaing Twitter trend

    Rihanna's pantless pose on Twitter prompted Ottawa Senators blogger Eric Doty to create the "Rihannaing" hashtag. Now Sens fans are dropping their trousers for the ...

  • Tables turned Facebook hit with social media campaign over sexist content

    That's what's happening to American Express, Dove, Zipcar, Audible and more. (Screenshots of these images next to Facebook advertising have been posted online, it's extremely graphic content ...

  • Is Google Angling To Outbid Facebook For Waze

    Google Maps is a frontrunner in the mapping and navigation market for both traditional PCs and smartphones. However, startups have been known to edge in to take a little slice of the pie by offering unique features. Until Google tries to buy them. The search-engine giant is currently in talks to buy map software provider Waze Inc, ...


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Dune

Dune

After reading the novel, it should have been immediately apparent to writer/director David Lynch that Frank Herbert's epic "Dune" could not make a successful move from page to screen in anything less than four or five hours. At the least. Instead, Lynch tried to condense the novel, keeping the main plot intact, but leaving out certain characters and squeezing events together. For those who have re ... ...

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  • Valley vintner gets weird on Tim Cooks tax problems

    A toast to Tim Cook. Gilroy winery owner Thomas Kruse raises a glass in a photo for the winery's newsletter. Talk about seizing on current events for a little off-color company marketing. The Internet was consumed earlier this week with Apple CEO Tim Cook's appearance before a Senate committee to talk U.S. tax-dodging with overseas subsidiaries, particularly in Ireland (read more about ...

  • Secret Twitter garden reveals itself when you tweet

    (Credit: University of Lincoln) It's always good to stop and smell the roses, but sometimes you have to tweet to access them. At least that's how it works with an interactive Internet-connected garden created by the ...

  • Under house arrest Chinese bishop uses social media to encourage pilgrimage

    Imprisoned Bishop Ma Daqin of Shanghai used social media to lead the faithful in prayer on May 24 as Chinese Catholics observed the feast of Our Lady of Sheshan on May 24. Bishop Ma, who is living under house arrest at an undisclosed location in Shanghai, is recognized by the Vatican as the rightful Bishop of Shanghai. He has been denounced by the Beijing government since, at his episcopal ...

  • Video Students create car that runs on social media

    High school students from Kansas City, Mo., turned an old-school Volkswagen Karmann Ghia into an electric car that runs on social fuel. KCTV's Alice Barr ...

  • Ashton Kutcher on Twitter Media kind of fed it up

    Did the media really screw up Twitter? That's what actor Ashton Kutcher suggested when he spoke at the recent CTIA 2013 wireless conference. "Twitter's experience has changed for me, pretty drastically. It used to be sort of a personalized, experience for me, a really personal experience that I could share. I think for lack of a better verb, I think the media kind of f***ed it ...

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