PayPal, an electronic payment company based on San Jose, Calif., recently increased its paid parental time leave program, making it one of the many Silicon Valley firms to do this in order…
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UK Police Arrest VTech Toymaker Hacker
Personal data of millions of children and adults may have been compromised after a creepy hack of the toymaker VTech servers happened last month. While the extent of the damage is not…
Facebook Strengthens Search Feature To Include Public Posts
Facebook will start to include relevant results from all public posts in its search results. Facebook confirmed this major enhancement to its search function in an announcement last week. Facebook users can…
Sneezing Monkey and Walking Fish Among Exciting New Species Discovered
A wildlife report by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) titled Hidden Himalayas: Asia’s Wonderland has confirmed the discovery of over 200 new species in the Eastern Himalayas, during the period of…
Verizon Working Hard To Introduce 5G Network Within 2 Years
Verizon has been working hard to increase the speed of its wireless network while also surpassing its rivals in the 5G race. According to Roger Gurnani, chief information officer at Verizon, the…
Microsoft Sees Unprecedented Demand For Windows 10 Upon Release
Within a day of launch almost 14 million devices have been installed with Windows 10, claims a blog post by Microsoft. The demand is unprecedented and the feedback overwhelmingly positive according to…
Original iPad Mini Disappears From Apple Stores as Focus Shifts to Retina Display Models
The original iPad mini was discontinued from Apple’s online stores signalling the end-of-life for the once highly respected and attractively priced “smaller” tablet that Apple introduced in October 2012. The de-listing on…
FCC Proposal To Give Cell Phone Users Tools To Deal With Unwanted Texts and Calls
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has proposed new rules that look to give cell phone owners more tools that will protect them from unwanted phone calls and text messages. FCC Chairman Tom…
More Android Devices To Have Pre-Installed Microsoft Apps
More Android devices will soon have Microsoft apps pre-installed. The move is thanks to the company’s 20 new partnerships with tablet markets around the globe. The group of regional and global partners…
Both Tesla’s Twitter and Website Hacked On Saturday
It was a rough Saturday for the IT department at Tesla: both their Twitter account and website had been hacked. It also appeared that the company’s CEO Elon Musk had his personal…