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Are You Being Tracked By WhatsApp Apps?
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A recent Business Insider Report has highlighted how third-party apps may be exposing some data and details of the activity of WhatsApp users. WhatsApp – Known For Encryption Facebook-owned WhatsApp is known for its end-to-end encryption. This means that only the sender and receiver can read the message between them. In addition to being convenient, free, and widely used in business, the secure encryption that users also value has even been a target for concerned
Most People Happy With Virtual Doctors’ Appointments
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A recent survey from Visionable has shown that 73 per cent of people are happy with the idea of having video consultations with their GP. Pandemic Strengthens View The survey, which originally took into account the views of 1500 people back in February (i.e. before the UK lockdown), found that at that time, 69 per cent of people were in favour of video consultations with their GP. A further 1525 people were then surveyed in
Featured Article – Facial Recognition, Facial Authentication and the Future
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Facial Recognition and facial authentication sound similar but there are distinct differences and this article takes a broad a look at how both are playing more of a role in our lives going forward. So firstly, what’s the difference? Facial Recognition This refers to the biometric technology system that maps facial features from a photograph or video taken of a person e.g. while walking in the street or at an event and then compares that
Google To Pay Publishers $1 Billion
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Alphabet Inc.’s CEO, Sundar Pichai has said that Google will pay $1 billion to publishers globally for their news over the next three years. Fight The fight to get Google to pay publishers for content has raged for years and there was news in February that Google was in talks with publishers with a view to buying in premium news content for its own news services to improve its relationship with EU publishers and to
Tech Tip – Reading Articles That Are Behind Paywalls
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If you find an article that you’d really like to read but it’s behind a paywall and you don’t want to sign-up to the online publication just to read one thing, here’s how to read the whole article: Go to https://outline.com/ Copy and paste the URL of the article you would like to read into the field marked “ENTER ARTICLE URL”.Click on the green “Create Outline” button and the article will be displayed.