Pornhub is giving you a way to browse in anonymity. The company said Thursday that it’s rolling out a free VPN called VPNhub. A VPN is a virtual private network. CNET’s Laura Hautala describes it like this: “A VPN redirects your internet traffic, disguising where your computer, phone or other device is when it makes …
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When the team behind Google’s Chrome OS software and Chromebooks set out to reinvent the laptop, it quickly zeroed in on security as an area where it could bring a fresh perspective. “On Chrome OS, we were like, ‘We control all the pieces. We can do better,'” Will Drewry, a principal software engineer for Google’s devices, and one of the …
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To get to the heart of Facebook’s newest controversy, you’d have to go back to 2013. That’s when Facebook announced it was buying Onavo, a mobile analytics startup based in Israel. At the time, the buyout was expected to bolster CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to wire the globe, providing web access to underserved communities through the social network’s Internet.org initiative. …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Enlarge Image How is this thing only $50?! Best Buy Today I’m going to repeat myself twice — …
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Nine hundred million comments and 12 billion upvotes later, Reddit has posted its best-of lists for 2017. The fourth-most visited site on the internet says its most upvoted post was one called “The Senate. Upvote this so that people see it when they Google ‘The Senate’.” The second-ranking post, “Private Internet Access, a VPN provider, takes out a full page …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Enlarge Image Motorola’s Moto G4 Plus, shown here in white (but available only in black for this deal), …
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Fifty million people in India lost access to the internet for five days as the conviction of a cult leader plunged the northern states of Punjab and Haryana into a state of emergency. Local government cut off mobile internet and text messaging services on Thursday, Aug. 24, ahead of a verdict in the trial of cult leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim …
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The internet is in trouble with China’s government. Again. The Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating WeChat, Weibo and Baidu — the Chinese equivalents of WhatsApp, Twitter and Google — due to reports filed by Chinese internet users alleging illegal content, such as “violence, rumours [and] porn,” is being circulated on the platforms, it said in a statement on Friday. The …
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Apple’s next iPhone may arrive on time after all. Maybe. Going into Tuesday’s earnings report, most expected Apple to delay the launch of its next flagship iPhone, with rumors calling for an October release date, if not later. But the normally conservative Apple surprised everyone by offering a cheery forecast for the current quarter, with revenue ranging from $49 billion …
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A tighter crackdown on VPN apps in China forced Apple to remove the software from its China App Store over the weekend, CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday during the company’s earnings call with analysts. On Saturday, Apple began informing creators of such apps that their VPN apps had been removed because they included “content that is illegal in China, which …
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