Internet News
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By AFP
Cannes -
They dress like celebrities and can increasingly be spotted on the world's catwalks and red carpets. Meet the "influencers", the most famous people you've never heard of.
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Comcast has threatened legal action against a site run by a group of net neutrality advocates. The site in question was trying to establish who's responsible for a deluge of fake anti-net neutrality comments. Comcast has objected to the use of its name.
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By AFP
Bejing -
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said Thursday its net profit almost doubled in the latest quarter on the back of soaring growth in online shopping.
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When it comes to Internet security toys feature low down on the list of areas of vulnerability. Where many people introduce firewalls to their computers they may overlook the toys their children play with, yet the Internet of Things is ever expanding.
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By AFP
Kiev -
The Ukrainian presidency said its website had been attacked by Russia in apparent retaliation for Kiev's decision to block prominent Moscow-based social networks.
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By AFP
Kiev -
Ukraine on Tuesday blocked Russia's most popular social media networks and an internet search engine in response to the Kremlin's alleged backing of a three-year separatist war in the east.
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By AFP
Kiev -
Ukraine on Tuesday blocked popular Russian social networks and an internet search engine as it expanded sanctions against the Kremlin for its alleged backing of a three-year war in the separatist east.
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By AFP
Tehran -
After a series of bruising electoral defeats, Iranian conservatives campaigning in this week's presidential poll have belatedly embraced social media -- a space long dominated by their reformist rivals.
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Despite the reach of the Internet and its growing complexity, no physical map of the Internet had been produced, until now. The outcome highlights the Internet-dependent nature of our world.
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By AFP
Aurora -
On a traffic island in a country town, young Cubans are doing what most of their compatriots cannot: surfing an online social network.In one of the least wired countries on Earth, Gaspar, population 7,500, is one of the most connected towns of all.
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HBO comedian John Oliver has joined the movement aiming to stop the FCC from scrapping its net neutrality regulations in just ten days' time. FCC chairman Ajit Pai intends to do away with the Obama-era protections and prevent them being reinstated.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Researchers on Monday urged tougher laws to protect victims of "revenge porn" in Australia after a survey revealed abuses, including shooting and sharing intimate images without permission, on a "mass scale".
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By AFP
Bejing -
Chinese internet giant Tencent said Saturday it was "deeply sorry" its messaging app WeChat was blocked in Russia, adding it was in touch with authorities to resolve the issue.
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By AFP
Caracas -
"President flees into exile... Opposition leader murdered... President appears dancing... Opposition leader says: 'I'm alive!
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London -
According to a leaked document, the British government is planning to undertake "live" surveillance of British web users' internet communications.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
A 'phishing' scam that tricked people with what appeared to be Google Docs links was doused by the internet giant after spreading wildly.The purpose of the scam, and the culprits behind it, remained unknown late in the day.
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By AFP
Den Haag -
European police are probing whether the Islamic State group and other extremists are setting up a social network to spread propaganda, gain funding and avoid security crackdowns, an official said Wednesday.
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Access to the global encyclopedia Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey, with those in the the troubled country being unable to access any of the global knowledge-bases web pages.
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By AFP
Phuket -
Tearful relatives gathered outside a Thai temple on Saturday to bury an 11-month-old girl killed by her father in a harrowing murder he broadcast live on Facebook before committing suicide.
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By AFP
Istanbul -
Turkey on Saturday blocked all access inside the country to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia reportedly for articles claiming links between Ankara and terror groups, the latest restriction on a popular website to hit Turkish users.
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By AFP
Srinagar -
An unprecedented ban on Whatsapp, Facebook and Twitter in Indian Kashmir has highlighted social media's role in energising an insurgency that has roiled the disputed Himalayan region for decades.
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By AFP
Phuket -
The distraught Thai mother of a baby girl killed by her boyfriend in a murder he broadcast on Facebook Live has described the harrowing moment she stumbled across the video and rushed to alert police.
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By AFP
Bangkok -
Thai media came under fire Wednesday for publishing images of a man killing his infant daughter in a Facebook Live video, a grim case that sparked outrage and raised fears of copycat killings.
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By AFP
Vancouver -
Pope Francis urged harmony over division in a surprise papal TED talk, delivered via video to the big-ideas gathering in Vancouver.
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By AFP
Vancouver -
Raj Panjabi, who fled to the United States to escape civil war in his native Liberia, eventually returned to his shattered homeland to find rural communities desperate for adequate health care.
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By AFP
Stockholm -
A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced three young men to prison for gang raping a woman and livestreaming the attack on Facebook.
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Can you hack it making your living as an Instagram influencer?
The money companies are pumping into it is steadily growing, too.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
Scores of technology firms including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft joined a legal filing urging a judge to toss out President Donald Trump's latest travel ban.
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By AFP
Den Haag -
Police have arrested 39 suspects in over a dozen countries across Europe and Latin America after busting an online paedophile ring that used the WhatsApp chat service to share images of child sex abuse, officials said Tuesday.
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By AFP
New York -
A US hunt for the gunman accused of murdering a grandfather and posting the crime on Facebook ended Tuesday with the suspect killing himself after a brief pursuit with police in Pennsylvania.
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Internet Image
Picnicface swamps the awards. Canada.com
Reception at the October 22, 2014 screening in NY at Neuehouse for the new season of Tiffany Shlain's "Future Starts Here" series on AOL.
The Air Force Cyberspace Command. U.S. Air Force photo / Tech. Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo
Jason Falls and Keenan Cahill at the Overblog booth at #BWENY
france.fr homepage August 16 2010
Against internet censorship
Yang Dacai, a Chinese safety official, was exposed as corrupt by bloggers, posting images of him wearing luxury items, promoting a disciplinary investigation, which found him guilty of serious wrongdoing. Trowbridge Estate
A website seized by ICE on Cyber Monday 2012 Screen Capture
The Chinese are connected to the world in big numbers. Chrislb
Facebook headquarters entrance sign at 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California. LPS.1
An internet user surfing the net on her Blackberry in Lagos, Nigeria
A screenshot from the Google ad which appeared during the Super Bowl YouTube screenshot
Photo-coverage from mesh13, Canada's premier digital conference
Mainstream media losing its viewership. Screen capture from video
Photo-coverage from mesh13, Canada's premier digital conference
'Steve' the plucky-looking modem. Illustration by Digital Journal
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