Facebook's engineers have many challenges ahead of them as they work to scale up Graph Search, the site's new social search tool. One stumbling block: an over-abundance of data to sift through. Take the example of searching for Japanese ...
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Sheena Allen Apps has announced that is has officially released its popular double image/cloning app, Dubblen, for Android. The app allows users to take two photos that will result as one photo, but give the look of a clone or twin. ...
Sony has unveiled a new-generation PlayStation 4 system but the star of the party - the console itself - was not displayed during a long two-hour presentation. At a press event in New York, Sony talked gaming, live streaming, networking, ...
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Google's famed "triumvirate" -- Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt -- will give oral statements over the coming weeks as part of a private antitrust suit brought against Google and six other technology companies by former employees. ...
Google has invited "explorers" with creative vision and $US1500 ($A1456) to spare to be part of a select group of people who get to experiment with glasses synched to the internet. A video intended to capture what it feels like to use ...
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Facebook is working hard to assure users that Graph Search, its new search engine designed to uncover all sorts of information buried within the site, does not compromise the privacy rights of minors. "As with all of our products, we ...
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Google+ suffered a site outage Friday morning, prompting users of the social network to complain on both Google+ and Twitter that the site was down or slow to load. According to Google, the outage was over by late morning, East Coast ...
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Apple says it has been hit by hackers who wormed their way into the California company's system but evidently failed to steal any data. The maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers said it is working with law enforcement ...
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MyPourPal, LLC has launched what is expected to be one of the beverage world's hottest apps: MyPourPal , Linking Bartenders to Their Regulars. This "first of its type" app creates a social link between bartenders and their regular ...
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Facebook has expanded its promoted posts program, allowing users to pay to highlight posts made by friends. The move, if successful, could help boost fees Facebook collects from the recently introduced service. The new feature lets users ...
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Facebook scored an initial legal victory in its IPO case following a federal judge's dismissal of a group of investor lawsuits filed against the company. More than 30 lawsuits were filed against Facebook after it went public last May, ...
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Facebook has admitted that laptops belonging to its employees were recently infected by malware, blaming a zero-day Java exploit for the incident. Users of the social network will be concerned that their private data may have been ...
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Zynga, the struggling social games pioneer, showed signs it is getting a grip on spending with an earnings report revealing narrowing losses, which sparked an after-hours rally in shares. Zynga stock was up more than five per cent to ...
Google's social network, Google+, is getting attention from the likes of astronauts and the U.S. president. NASA announced that, for the first time, the space agency will host a Google+ hangout at 11 a.m. ET on Feb. 22 with astronauts ...
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Looking to have a romantic Valentine's Day with your sweetheart? Maybe you should use Facebook a little less. Facebook just may be the third wheel in your relationship, according to a study from Abine Inc., an online privacy company based ...