| Speed Up Google Chrome With This Tab-Reducing Extension
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 I have somewhere around 70 tabs open on my computer right now, give or take a few. I treat Chrome tabs like temporary bookmarks. For instance, a few of my open tabs are for stories I want to read later, and a few others are for SF Beer Week events I'm currently in the midst of planning for. It's not the most efficient way to work, but it's the way I've chosen. Unfortunately, it's also a way that sucks a ton of power.
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| Arrests Linked To Tony Clement Sexting Scandal Made In Ivory Coast: CTV Report
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| Two men have been arrested by Ivory Coast officials in connection to former Tory MP Tony Clement's sexting scandal, according to sources cited in an exclusive report by CTV News. Identified by officials only as "CH" and "DML", the men are accused of posing as a woman online, soliciting sexually explicit images from Clement and blackmailing him to the tune of €50,000 (about $75,000 CAD). Using fake accounts on LinkedIn and Instagram, "CH" and "DML" posed as a woman named "Brianna Dounia," CTV reports. Once the explicit images were obtained, authorities say the men threatened to release them ...
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| The internet's 'father' says it was born with two big flaws (GOOGL)
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 • Vint Cerf, one of the creators of the internet, said the network had two big flaws when he launched it. • The internet didn't have room for all the devices that would eventually be connected to it, said Cerf, now Google's chief internet evangelist. • It also didn't have any built-in security protocols. • Even though both shortcomings proved problematic, Cerf's not certain he would have fixed them if he had to do it all over again. The internet was born flawed. But if it hadn't been, it might not have grown into the worldwide phenomenon it's become. That's the take of Vint Cerf, and if anyone would know, it's him. He's widely considered to be one of the fathers of the international network and helped officially launch it in 1983. When the internet debuted, Cerf, who is now a vice president at Google and its chief internet evangelist, basically didn't set aside enough room to handle all the devices that would eventually be connected to it. Perhaps even more troubling, he and his collaborators didn't build ...
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| Google Maps will now display speed limits for its Android and iOS apps
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 For the last couple of years, my wife and I have relied on an ancient Garmin GPS for long road trips, in part because it had a useful feature that Google Maps lacked: speed limits. We might end up switching soon, because Google has begun rolling out the feature to Google Maps on iOS and Android devices. The new feature, spotted by Android Police (via Mashable), displays the posted speed limit on roads in the corner of the app, and also introduces an icon to denote the location of speed cameras. Mashable reports that drivers will get an audio notification when they're approaching a speed trap. The update is currently rolling out to users in Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the United States, while speed camera icons are rolling out to...
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| Venezuela's Government Blocks Access To Wikipedia
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| Haaretz (with contributions from Reuters and the Associated Press) reports: According to NetBlocks, a digital rights group that tracks restrictions to the internet, as of 12 January, Venezuela largest telecommunications provider CANTV has prevented access to Wikipedia in all languages. The internet observatory told Haaretz the ban was discovered by attempting "to access Wikipedia and other services 60,000 times from 150 different points in the country using multiple providers." Roughly 16 million people have access to the internet in the South American country ravaged by poverty and now ...
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