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Facebook tried to conceal that it was secretly vacuuming up call and text logs from Android users without their permission, newly-released internal documents have revealed.The hundreds of pages of documents, which were previously sealed as part of an ongoing legal case with a now-defunct app developer called Six4Three, were released yesterday by the British parliament — and they confirm once again that Facebook is more than willing to sacrifice user privacy for company growth.Writing in an email...

How great would the damage be if a grain of sand were to hit the Earth at 99% of the speed of light?   Mike Richmond, A degree in theoretical physics from Oxford Upvoted by Geoff Olynyk, Ph.D., Applied Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy, MIT, 2013 Kinetic energy is represented as: At 0.99c, that is approximately 6mc^2With a grain of sand averaging 4mg, that ends up with a kinetic energy of:6 x 4 x 3 x 3 x 10^10 joulesOr roughly 2 x 10^12 joules.  That's equivalent to approximately 40...

Ad exchange adBrite shuts down its servers today Feb. 1. Here’s the advertiser version: Dear adBrite Advertiser, Over the last few weeks, adBrite and its management have been evaluating the go-forward plan for the business. Given market conditions and certain financial liabilities, in working with our lenders, we have decided to cease operations on Feb 1, 2013. This is a difficult decision for all of us at adBrite. However, after much deliberation this seems to be the best course of action des...

Windows 7 by default offers a simple way of changing mouse cursor via control panel as its predecessor Vista, but as you may have noticed the variety of available cursors is pretty monotonic and limited to only simple objects such as hand, sand watch and various arrows. Personally I am kind a tired of looking at the same mouse pointer in Windows from the very beginning and if you feel the same here is a good way to start. CursorFX is a free application enabling you to easily change Windows mous...

The unrest spread from the school to a nearby shopping centre   At least 27 people have been held by police for rioting in Sweden, after photos of children were posted on Instagram alongside sexual insults. The account is alleged to have been set up by a teenage girl who attends the Plusgymnasiet school in Gothenburg. It asked people to send in photos and allegations of the person's sexual history, publishing about 200 of them. Some 200 people then responded to a rival Facebook page urging them ...

Instagram was bought by Facebook in April 2012   Facebook's photo-sharing site Instagram has updated its privacy policy giving it the right to sell users' photos to advertisers without notification. Unless users delete their Instagram accounts by a deadline of 16 January, they cannot opt out. The changes also mean Instagram can share information about its users with Facebook, its parent company, as well as other affiliates and advertisers. The move riled social media users, with one likening it ...

When I was buying my notebook all I had in mind was performance. I wanted to have one of Intel's Penryn CPU-s, 2 gigs of fast ram, discrete video card and Windows Vista operating system. I was sure with that specifications, especially withCore 2 Duo, my laptop would fly with speed. But when I got my new laptop I had a terrible experience. Notebook was slow like something was terribly wrong! I knew Vista was not the fastest operating system but I tweaked it and removed all unnecessary applicatio...

Today we share with you a interesting and useful Article: Networking problems can be a real nightmare for every computer user and with them in mind I sat down to write a post about any possible solution I know of that could help you repair dead internet connection. One of the first things to do when you experience such problems is to make sure your computer is physically connected to internet which means if you encounter wireless network problems connect laptop to the ethernet cable (sticking o...

Where are Windows 7 temporary files stored and how to delete them Windows temporary files are usually leftovers from previous installations of various applications or documents once needed by Windows to run certain task. These files can in a time grow large and take up to 1 GB of hard drive space if not deleted once in a while. For example temp files already take up 50 MB on my 2 days old fresh installation of Windows 7. It might not sound a lot but in time this can grow larger, fragment hard ...

MFB Introduces "FREE SMS all over World" Send SMS to your loved with a click of button Yeh sab meray Aaqa ka karam haiThanks to for helping http://mymfb.com/mfb-send-free-sms-to-your-loved-ones-all-over-world/ We all love

MFBs another steps towards providing better services to Muslim Ummah/Millat and Mfbians. Launch of Millat Calling Card in alliance with 786 Global Call, the only telco in the world offering all the major mehtods of calling your loved ones, whether its Pinless Dialing, Pc 2 Phone Diaer or Mobile Dialer , we are always up to date to provide best solutions to our valuable customers. Mfbians can call all over the World (The Only High Quality and Economical Calling Card which can call ALL OVER WORLD)...

MFBs another steps towards providing better services to Muslim Ummah/Millat and Mfbians. Launch of Millat Calling Card in alliance with 786 Global Call, the only telco in the world offering all the major mehtods of calling your loved ones, whether its Pinless Dialing, Pc 2 Phone Diaer or Mobile Dialer , we are always up to date to provide best solutions to our valuable customers. Mfbians can call all over the World (The Only High Quality and Economical Calling Card which can call ALL OVER WORLD)...