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Website calculates how many times you will see parents before they die

November 4, 2015

Website calculates how many times you will see parents before they die

A startling new website tells users how many times they are likely to see their parents before they die.

Goodbye, old friend: Yahoo puts Internet relic AltaVista to sleep

November 4, 2015

Goodbye, old friend: Yahoo puts Internet relic AltaVista to sleep

Once up on a time, there was a popular search engine called AltaVista. It lives no more.

Tumblr chief calls Twitter ‘gross’

November 4, 2015

Tumblr chief calls Twitter ‘gross’

Tumblr founder David Karp lashed out at Twitter at Cannes Lions yesterday, blasting the way it displays the number of followers for every tweeter as “really gross.”

Yahoo approves deal to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion

November 4, 2015

Yahoo approves deal to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion

Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.

Vote for your favorite student Google doodle

November 4, 2015

Vote for your favorite student Google doodle

Kids from across the United States submitted more than 130,000 doodles to Google's 2013 Doodle 4 Google competition.

'SUXORZ' awards reveal biggest social media fails

November 4, 2015

'SUXORZ' awards reveal biggest social media fails

Social media week in New York ended with the SUXORZ Awards, a (sometimes) good-natured roasting of the worst public gaffes and fails, hosted by blog advertising network Blogads.

Can you correct misinformation on the Web? Maybe not

November 4, 2015

Can you correct misinformation on the Web? Maybe not

Thanks to the World Wide Web, rumors and innuendos live on, ricocheting around cyberspace. Unfortunately, some new research points out how difficult it is to correct them.

How to delete yourself from the Internet

November 4, 2015

How to delete yourself from the Internet

Are there days when you wish you could just disappear from the Internet? It's not terribly difficult to pull the Internet equivalent of escaping to a deserted island. All it takes is tenacity.

Brazilian website creates fake girlfriends

November 4, 2015

Brazilian website creates fake girlfriends

NamoroFake.com.br says that for 40 reals ($20) it will create a fake girlfriend and post her profile on Facebook during seven days.

US continues to fight proposals for UN to regulate web, Ambassador Kramer says

November 4, 2015

US continues to fight proposals for UN to regulate web, Ambassador Kramer says

A U.N. conference that kicked off today in Dubai has sparked fear of Internet censorship in the U.S. -- something U.S. Ambassador Terry Kramer said he is doing everything in his power to prevent.