by Debbie Harrower Meeting a normal, high-quality person is not easy and it seems to be getting harder these days. I know loads of single people who just can’t seem to meet someone who…
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Yanny or Laurel? Soundbite sparks internet din
An audio snippet with just two syllables has ignited an internet meltdown, dividing social media users into staunchly opposed camps: do you hear “Yanny” or “Laurel?” The collective sensory experiment causing a Twitter tizzy mushroomed…
Top music videos including ‘Despacito’ defaced by hackers
Some of the most popular music videos on YouTube including mega-hit “Despacito” momentarily disappeared Tuesday in an apparent hacking. Fans looking for videos by top artists including Drake, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift found the…
How Porn is screwing up a generation of men
(Oyunga Pala) The Whatsapp instant messaging service is convenient. It packs the advantage of free SMS worldwide and the ability to share pictures and videos on the fly. It also exposes one to friends of…
Is it Internet or internet? Debate rages on downshift
Are you on the Internet or the internet? This debate has been raging for years, but the tide appeared to turn when major US news organizations decided to drop the capitalization of Internet, making it…
YouTube plans Internet television service: report
YouTube plans to launch a service that streams cable television channels to viewers over the Internet for the price of a subscription, Bloomberg reported. YouTube has made a priority of creating the service, called Unplugged,…
Internet by light promises to leave Wi-Fi eating dust
Connecting your smartphone to the web with just a lamp — that is the promise of Li-Fi, featuring Internet access 100 times faster than Wi-Fi with revolutionary wireless technology. French start-up Oledcomm demonstrated the technology…
Dozens of major websites crashed all at once
Dozens of major websites including Netflix, Uber and the BBC went down simultaneously on Thursday in some areas of the United States, but were soon up again in most cases. The cause of the crashes…
Is internet the ugliest reflection of man kind there is?
Iggy Azalea has quit Twitter. The ‘Fancy’ hitmaker has decided to take a break from the social networking site following a number of “shocking” comments about her body after photographs of her in a red…
Q&A: How Internet.org aims to connect the world’s poor
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was in Colombia to launch a project to boost web access globally, something he said can be a force for peace. Facebook is a founding partner of Internet.org, which aims to…