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People have been sharing the most offensive backhanded compliments they’ve ever received using the hashtag #CrappyCompliments, which was kicked off by Midnight on Comedy Central. Since then, the hashtag has trended globally and people from around the world have been sharing their crappiest compliments. From remarks about

Google has been working on machine learning for years deep inside its R&D labs, and some of the advances it’s made have found their way into products such as Google Photos. On Monday, it launched a new, open-source tool to help share what it’s learned. TensorFlow is

Ofcom, BT and OpenReach – what this means to you BT used to like to tell us that “it’s good to talk”, but this morning it probably wasn’t the happiest of phone calls with the telecoms regulator Ofcom, which has told BT that it needs to seriously

There is a bizarre internet conspiracy brewing and if you have not yet heard the name Marina Rose Joyce, we are here to enlighten you. Marina Rose Joyce is a YouTube celebrity from the UK, who kicked off her career at just 15 years old. The now

Do you have a jet-setter’s lifestyle? Airports, queues, soul-crushing hotels and hour upon hour of high altitude boredom? Lucky you. Most frequent travellers have recently abandoned the small screen in the seat in front in favour of a tablet stuffed with their own movies or catch-up TV,

Online classifieds company Quikr has acquired online hiring platform Hiree in a bid to strengthen its own QuikrJobs offering. Hiree will be merged with QuikrJobs and will operate out of Quikr headquarters, the company said in a statement. Quikr said that the collective unit will create a

\ Windows XP will be getting even less secure next year, when Google stops updating Chrome for users of Microsoft’s nearly geriatric operating system. The company announced today that PCs running XP and Vista will be able to keep using Chrome after April 2016, but Google will

Nuanced debate? Scientific discussion? Yawn. FrackFeed, a pro-fracking website from industry groups and oil and gas companies, is targeting millennials in their native tongues: Memes, quizzes and listicles. Rihanna, Ron Burgundy, bloated toads and angry groundhogs serve as the backdrop for snarky messages extolling the virtues of

T-Mobile USA will exempt a list of video streaming services from monthly data caps with Binge On, a feature that could let some subscribers watch more clips and shows without buying a more expensive plan. Those users will have to be happy with DVD-quality video, though, because

A new piece of research has found that approaching half of all businesses have been hit by aransomware attack over the last year. The study from Malwarebytes questioned over 500 IT leaders from companies across the UK and Germany, as well as Canada and the US, and