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Enlarge (credit: Daniel Oines) Google developers this week debuted a long-anticipated feature in Chrome that automatically blocks one of the Internet’s biggest annoyances—intrusive ads. Starting on Thursday, Chrome started filtering ads that fail to meet a set of criteria laid out by the Coalition for Better Ads, an industry group. The organization is made up […]
Online calls for violence in Russian schools should be swiftly blocked, a top Russian MP said, commenting on recent stabbing attacks in Perm and Ulan-Ude. The existing laws provide sufficient tools to fulfill this task, he added. “All the means to block [social media] groups, which contain calls for violence in schools are in the […]
Last week, the FCC repealed net neutrality protections put in place in 2015 and returned broadband to a Title I classification. There were many voices expressing concern over the proposal and frustration once the FCC voted to enact it and a few members of Congress on both sides of the aisle stated that legislation, which […]
Published time: 19 Dec, 2017 15:45 Facebook is considering whether to ban far-right group Britain First from its platform. It comes just days after Twitter blocked the accounts of its leaders Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen in a clampdown on hate speech. Neither can post messages and all of their previous messages have gone – […]
Enlarge / Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai arrives for his confirmation hearing with the Senate Commerce Committee on July 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla ) The Federal Communications Commission voted today to deregulate the broadband industry and eliminate net neutrality rules that prohibit Internet service providers from blocking […]
Paris Saint-Germain want to sell Di Maria to raise much-needed funds following Neymar’s £200million arrival from Barca. The hostile transfer of Neymar worsened the relationship between the clubs that was already bad following their Champions League clash last season. Di Maria’s former agent Jorge Mendes, who has worked closely with PSG in the past, is […]
John Moore/Getty Images Researchers have developed a vaccine against heroin that works by blocking its narcotic effects. In other words, it prevents the user from feeling anything, undercutting the purpose of taking the drug at all. A single shot would work for weeks at a time, with the best formulation blocking the effects for at […]
GUEST: Virtual reality, though still in its nascent stages of evolution, is becoming increasingly commercially viable, just as augmented reality is also gaining popularity. But as with any gold rush, developers and vendors are feverishly working to stake their claim on a new frontier while still partially mining in the dark, as both VR and […]
Reports of Moscow “blocking” the US-drafted condemnation of the recent North Korean missile launch are false, Russia’s United Nations mission has clarified in a statement, while condemning the leak and media misinterpretation of internal UN conversations. The claim that Russia allegedly “blocked” the draft Security Council statement was reported earlier on Thursday by Reuters, which […]
The Trump administration is reportedly refusing to honor a data request to disclose the number of lobbyists it allows to work in the White House – a move critics have called “unprecedented and extremely troubling.” The New York Times reports that administration officials sent a letter to the head of the Office of Government Ethics […]
