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As FineBros continues to be hammered, Mega64 announces own trademark

Chris Smith | Feb 4, 2016 7:31 AM CST

The Fine Brothers Entertainment company has seen a lot of internet hate recently, attempting to fully copyright 'reaction videos' and telling members of the YouTube community that partnering with (and paying them) for this type of content is beneficial for all.

As FineBros continues to be hammered, Mega64 announces own trademark

In response to this announcement was a 'reaction to the Fine Bros React' by satirical comedians Mega64, releasing a video depicting its plans to react videos made outside.

Giving a shoutout to 'money', this comedy trio explains that the new trademark is made purely to be beneficial to the wider social networking community, sacrificing themselves for the greater good.

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YouTube Red's first original series 'Scare Pewdiepie' debuts Feb 10

Anthony Garreffa | Feb 4, 2016 12:26 AM CST

We're finally seeing the fruits of Alphabet's labor with YouTube Red, with the company promising original content for subscribers who cough up $10 per month.

YouTube Red's first original series 'Scare Pewdiepie' debuts Feb 10

Well, the first YouTube Red original series features none other than infamous YouTuber 'Pewdiepie', with 'Scare Pewdiepie' being the first show off the rank. Pewdiepie's "reality-adventure" will continue his work from YouTube, but there will also be three movies released onto YouTube Red from Astronauts Wanted and Lilly Singh, AwesomenessTV and Rooster Teeth.

There'll also be a release from Lazer Tech, a documentary called A Trip To Unicorn Island, which covers Singh's 30-city world tour. When YouTube Red's original shows were announced in November 2015, we were promised 10 projects - so we should expect 7 more programs and movies to be released, including a project from CollegeHumor.

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Facebook bans the private sale of guns through their website

Jeff Williams | Jan 30, 2016 10:03 AM CST

It used to be that private gun sales were acceptable through any such medium on the Internet, Facebook included. But with the new laws in place in the US, Facebook is cracking down on overt advertisements for the private sale of firearms. Licensed gun-dealers are still fine, however.

Facebook is a burgeoning marketplace, it would seem."Over the last two years, more and more people have been using Facebook to discover products and to buy and sell things to one another," head of product policy Monika Bickert told Reuters. "We are continuing to develop, test and launch new products to make this experience even better for people and are updating our regulated goods policies to reflect this evolution."

And so as a result to help curb illegal activity, they've put programs (literal software) in place to check listings and flag them for review. I'd imagine they might be leveraging the deep learning projects they have going on, utilizing NVIDIA hardware to do so. It could allow for quick and timely identification with few errors (over time).

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Pornhub sees a surge in US visitors during 'Snowzilla'

Anthony Garreffa | Jan 30, 2016 2:49 AM CST

Most of you have either heard about or have been in the middle of Snowzilla - which reached the East Cost of the United States in a big way between January 22 and 24.

Well, mega porn giant Pornhub had a noticeable increased in their traffic, with the company focusing a new report on the four East Coast cities, which were plowed by Snowzilla the hardest. Pornhub's report sees the traffic in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington were swollen, compared to usual.

Washington had the largest increase in traffic, with 22% more on Friday, 21% more on Saturday and the tip of it happened on Sunday, with a 25% increase in traffic compared to an average day for Pornhub. If you want to get into the nitty gritty, Pornhub has traffic by the hour over Snowzilla, too.

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Google paid $6006.13 to the guy who purchased 'Google.com' last year

Anthony Garreffa | Jan 29, 2016 1:44 AM CST

Back in October last year, Sanmay Ved noticed that "Google.com" was available on Google Domains, so he snapped it up for $12. Yeah, $12 for Google.com - a steal, right?

Ved owned the most iconic domain name of all time, for all of 60 seconds. After they noticed that the Google.com domain had been purchased, Google cancelled the purchase - and then provided Ved with an undisclosed reward. Well, we have found out through a blog post that Google paid him $6006.13, which is "Google" spelled with numbers - nice one, Google.

Ved donated the reward to The Art of Living India, and once Google found out about this, they doubled the reward amount. Good work there, Google!

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Facebook smashes profit reports, earns record numbers in 2015

Chris Smith | Jan 28, 2016 8:32 AM CST

Earning an incredible $13.54 for each user on its social network (last quarter alone), Facebook's revenue has soared up by 52 percent in 2015 in a year over year analysis, reports The Verge.

Posting earnings of $2.69 billion on $17.93 billion in revenue over the course of 2015, Facebook has expressed a 44 percent revenue increase from the previous year in a recent announcement. In addition to these results, this social networking giant reported that 1.04 billion people use Facebook on a daily basis, posting a 17 percent increase from 2014.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, stated that "Our community continued to grow and our business is thriving. We continue to invest in better serving our community, building our business, and connecting the world," saying that "2015 was a great year for Facebook" which is backed up by these impressive results.

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Twitter changes top roles, sources claim

Chris Smith | Jan 25, 2016 4:31 AM CST

Undisclosed sources claim that Twitter's engineering head Kevin Wail and its head of media, Katie Stanton, will be departing the social media giant soon, seen reported by The Australian recently.

The information has been leaked "according to people familiar with the matter," with further claims being made that Stanton has already announced her absence internally some time ago. Being a prior chairman, current chief executive Jack Dorsey told Twitter that he'll only take back the CEO role if the entire board of directors was replaced - it seems that he's now a few steps closer to this goal.

While Twitter has declined official comment itself, sources further claim that this major executive shuffle is a bold move by Dorsey to revitalise his company, one of which that has fallen on hard times recently.

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Skype hides your IP address, to help you from yourself

Jeff Williams | Jan 22, 2016 9:06 AM CST

Skype has just made a big change to the way in which their omnipresent messaging app works, adding in a level of privacy that wasn't quite there before. Now your IP address is hidden by default, to help prevent an easy avenue for launching a DDoS from.

It seems that the gaming community is the reason for this change, because of how vindictive and angry players can get if they lose, or if someone says something they don't agree with. DDoS's are a real threat carried out on a variety of scales almost daily, and Skype has previously been an easy way to facilitate that. Just use a tool to backtrace a persons IP using their Skype ID. But now that won't work, because your IP address will be obfuscated by default, a great leap forward for privacy.

"Starting with this update to Skype and moving forward, your IP address will be kept hidden from Skype users. This measure will help prevent individuals from obtaining a Skype ID and resolving to an IP address," the news update says. It's a great thing, because it was one of the easier avenues attack.

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Introducing Brave, the new browser that blocks ads by default

Derek Strickland | Jan 21, 2016 12:34 PM CST

Ex-CEO and co-founder of Mozilla Brenden Eich has revealed Brave, a new kind of internet browser that wants to disrupt ad-based web surfing.

Introducing Brave, the new browser that blocks ads by default

Brave essentially acts as a filter for the traditional web surfing experience: the browser blocks all targeted ads and replaces them with non-invasive "anonymous" ads. The browser will be released across iOS, Android, Windows and Mac OSX, and is part of the company's "high-precision and privacy" platform, which is powered by a virtually-hosted cloud infrastructure. Brave not only blocks existing ad structures, but also denies cookies that can identify users. The best part is that Brave won't store your user data at any point, ensuring privacy.

"We are building a new browser and a connected private cloud service with anonymous ads," Eich said on the company page. "Brave browsers block everything: initial signaling/analytics scripts that start the programmatic advertising "dirty pipe", impression-tracking pixels, and ad-click confirmation signals. By default Brave will insert ads only in a few standard-sized spaces."

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PSA - Periscope videos now autoplay in your iOS app Twitter feed

Jeff Williams | Jan 12, 2016 9:57 PM CST

As if it wasn't bad enough as it is with autoplay for all media set to on by default, now even Periscope live feeds will start playing as you scroll through your Twitter feed.

Twitter's own real-time video streaming app has been a very successful venture once it was acquired early on in 2015. It's used for a variety of entertaining things, from pre-show interaction with fans to simply showing the world a small part of your life. It's interesting and can potentially be a tremendous creative outlet. The possibilities are endless, and what would happen if they integrated live 3D video streaming (with an external camera, of course). The world would nearly end.

But before it does, Twitter has naturally turned on autoplay in the iOS app, much to the behest of many social media moguls. This follows a trend set by Facebook that plays videos in as you scroll. In Twitter, only on the iOS app for now, you'll be able to watch, though tapping it will prompt you to open the actual Periscope app in order to actually interact with people.

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