Verizon is about to conclude the $4.83 billion takeover of Yahoo - a company that once defined the internet. The pioneer in search and web content, who was once the biggest name on the world wide web. Verizon will now combined Yahoo with AOL, who itself is another faded internet star, which Verizon also bought last year. SEE ALSO: Google Matched Content – Any [...]
Google New Gmail Features Will Warn Users Of Security Risks
Google has beef up it Gmail security features making the Gmail more secure for users. The new security features will warn users Of security risks like if someone sends you an email that was sent from an insecure service, a red ‘unlock’ icon will alert you. Gmail users will begin to see warnings if they click these links, further extending this protection to different web [...]
Instagram To Change How You View Your Feed’s Photos And Videos
Instagram set to change how you view your feed's photos and videos this means that your feed’s photos and videos will soon be showing up in order of what the site believes you’ll engage with the most. Instagram announced the change on its blog earlier, saying: “The order of photos and videos in your feed will be based on the likelihood you’ll be interested in the content, [...]
Email Inventor Ray Tomlinson, Dies At 74
Internet pioneer Ray Tomlinson, who is credited with the invention of email has died at the age of 74, he died on Saturday morning. The US computer programmer came up with the idea of electronic messages that could be sent from one network to another in 1971. His invention included the ground-breaking use of the @ symbol in email addresses, which is now standard. Ray [...]
SwiftKey Developer Sold His Predictive Text App To Microsoft For $250 Million
App developer named Jon Reynolds has reportedly sold his Predictive text app SwiftKey to Microsoft for a $250 million. According to Dailymail Jon Reynolds founded his predictive text app with fellow Cambridge graduate Ben Medlock in 2008, when they were both still in their 20s. SwiftKey uses artificial intelligence to adapt to the way the phone user types, predicting the way [...]