An Australian cyber researcher alleges that social media giant Facebook embeds tracking codes in monitor who sees and shares your photos. Forbes reports that Australian cyber researcher Edin Jusupovic recently claimed on Twitter that Facebook is embedding “hidden codes” in photos that users upload to the site to track how many people see and share
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"Of course they're fake videos, everyone can see they're not real. All the same, they really did say those things, didn't they?" These are the words of Vivienne Rook, the fictional politician played by Emma Thompson in the brilliant dystopian BBC TV drama Years and Years . The episode in question, set
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After the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, took the unprecedented action of banning a veteran administrator from the site for a year, the site’s editing community revolted with mass resignations and repeated efforts to overturn Wikimedia’s actions. The Foundation, at the urging of its board, has relented by referring the
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Premium Steel and Mines Limited PSML, has urged local builders and civil engineers to use the company’s world-class steel products that are produced in conformity with the United Kingdom BS 4449:2005 grade for their building and construction projects. PSML Chief Executive Officer, Prasanta Mishra, made this plea at the presentation of
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Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, the Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, says the institution will complete its power generating plant in October. Ogunbodede made this known on Monday at the biennial conference of the African Institute for Science Policy and Innovation held at OAU. The vice-chancellor said the project, which started
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Association of Submarine Cable Operators of Nigeria (ASCON) is seeking the partnership of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to protect cables, fibre optic cables and other critical infrastructure in the telecom industry. The lamented the huge cost of fixing submarine cables vandalised by unscrupulous elements, adding that its members spend between
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SystemSpecs, the Nigerian company with interests in financial technology, designs and development of human resource management, (HRM) solutions and NIBOX, a multi-platform payment solution provider, have entered a partnership to extend financial products and services to the banked, under-banked and unbanked in the country. SystemSpecs in a statement, said it would
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Over the past week or so, one celebrity after another has stepped up to offer their take on nailing the Bottle Cap Challenge. I thought Mariah Carey’s was particularly funny, as she used one of her signature high notes to seemingly de-cap a bottle. Regular people have likewise offered a
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India’s space organization is examining the technical snag that led to the aborting of the launch Monday of a spacecraft intended to land on the far side of the moon, an official said. The Chandrayaan-2 mission was called off shortly before liftoff early Monday by the Indian Space Research Organization when
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The first humans on Mars could live on small 'islands' paved with tiles made out of silica aerogel - the lightest material on Earth Mars could be made habitable by creating "small islands" - paved with the lightest material on Earth, according to new research. An inch thick layer of tiles made
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