Facebook, Telegram working on their own cryptocurrencies

More than 50 engineers at Facebook are reportedly busy giving shape to the social media giant's own cryptocurrency and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is quite bullish on the project.

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How to enable Windows 10 dark theme

The themes feature has been around in the Windows operating system for a while now. However, to make the complete user interface dark, users have had to use the black theme along with several other third-party software. But in a recent update, the company has added the Dark mode option right into the Settings that allows users to change the overall UI dark. Wondering how? Here’s how to do it.

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Google employees join US lawmakers against mandatory arbitration

Six Google employees on Thursday joined US lawmakers to support bills that would ban mandatory arbitration in employment and consumer contracts, as the workers seek to build on recent success in getting the Alphabet Inc company to drop some arbitration provisions.

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Europe gets hit by record number of privacy complaints

Ireland's Data Protection Commission said on Thursday it received almost 2,900 complaints about the handling of personal data since a landmark Europe-wide privacy law was adopted last May - 8 percent more than in all of 2017.

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YouTube disables comments on kids' videos

YouTube said Thursday it will turn off comments on nearly all videos featuring kids - potentially affecting millions of posts on the site - after reports last week that pedophiles were leaving inappropriate comments on innocuous videos of children.

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Huawei runs ad in US newspapers to combat bad image

Huawei Technologies ran a full page ad in major U.S. newspapers on Thursday urging readers not to believe "everything you hear," about the Chinese tech firm, as it defends itself against government accusations its equipment can be used to spy.

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5 reasons breaking up with bad selfies is good for self-confidence

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