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  One of the biggest roadblocks I find to fast web browsing these days is the plethora of annoying notifications that websites offer me. Fortunately, Google Chrome offers a quick and easy way to block them. You've no doubt had this happen countless times already this week.  You browse to a website and you get a notification offering the chance for you to get more notifications. Something like this (although this one is from  a handy test site ): Hate them? Want them gone? Not a problem, if you use Google Chrome! Here's how: Click on the three dots button (top-right of the browser window) Click on  Settings Click on  Advanced From the  Privacy and security  section, click on  Content settings... Click on  Notifications Finally, click on  Ask before sending (recommended)  to change it to  Blocked You're done! Just this one tweak has dramatically streamlined my browsing experience. Try if out for yourself!

  Former and current Mozilla engineers are reaching their boiling points. A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google of intentionally and systematically sabotaging Firefox over the past decade in order to boost Chrome's adoption. He is not the first Firefox team member to come forward and make such accusations in the past eight months; however, his allegations span far beyond current events and accuse Google of carrying out a coordinated plan that involved introducing small bugs on its sites that would only manifest for Firefox users. OOPS AFTER OOPS Johnathan Nightingale , a former General Manager and Vice President of the Firefox group at Mozilla, described these issues as "oopses." "When I started at Mozilla in 2007 there was no Google Chrome, and most folks we spoke with inside [Google] were Firefox fans," Nightingale recollected in a  Twitter thread  on Saturday. "When Chrome launched things got complicated, but not in the way you might

  At the Google Cloud Next conference, Google showcased the next step it's taking to get security keys in the hands of more people Security keys offer one of the most secure authentication methods for logging into an account -- it requires plugging in a physical key. Many people, however, may not want to pay for an extra security device, or they may simply forget to carry it with them. Now, Google is trying to make this authentication method more accessible by enabling any phone running Android 7+ to serve as a security key to protect personal Google accounts and professional Google Cloud accounts. "Think of it like a security key in almost every modern Android phone... a very easy-to-use form factor for over a billion users," Rob Sadowski, Google's Trust and Security marketing lead, told reporters last week. "Having that as your authenticator really makes it easy to use and always available." While any form of two-step verification improves your security, s

  Microsoft alarms Windows 10 users by sending random and misspelled messages through its News app. Microsoft says a "configuration error" in the Windows 10 News app was the cause of users seeing nonsensical notifications that made some of them think their machines had been infected with malware.  Something went wrong last Friday at the Microsoft unit that oversees the Windows 10 News app.    Windows 10 users on Reddit  started to report  seeing "weird" notifications from the Microsoft News app titled 'My Movies', accompanied by the message: "This is a test notification".  It was then followed by the dodgy-looking "Thsi test notification". Some users also received a third notification, simply stating "Test Notification".  The notifications confused users who  couldn't tell  whether it was just a mystery bug or a malware infection, prompting some to consider wiping their machines.  A user on Microsoft's answers forums was

  It's time to update all of your iOS devices. Apple on Monday held an event, where it announced several new services. One of those services, Apple News Plus, launches  alongside the release of iOS 12.2 and macOS 10.14.4. Apple also announced Apple Card, a credit card that lives inside Apple Pay, a new Apple TV app for users to subscribe to individual channels, and Apple TV Plus, the company's subscription service for original programming. Shortly after the event ended, Apple released iOS 12.1 for iOS devices and the changelog reveals the update includes more than just Apple News Plus. Some of the highlights included the ability to use Siri on your iPhone to play a video or show on an Apple TV. There are four new Animoji -- an owl, boar, giraffe, and shark. Also included are improvements to Apple Pay Cash, and the ability to multitask while AirPlaying a video from an iOS device to an AirPlay device without interrupting the audio or video stream. You can read through the  securi

  Google’s upcoming Android version, currently referred to only as Android Q, will arrive later this summer with a trove of privacy enhancements. Details about these new additions have been revealed earlier this week after Google published  blog posts  and  new Android support pages  for Android Q following the release of a first beta version earlier this week. Below are all the privacy-focused features that are expected to land in the stable version of Android Q at the end of August. Access to clipboard data Android apps can no longer access the Android operating system’s clipboard data unless they are in focus (running in the foreground aka on screen). Apps can access clipboard data while in the OS background if they are also the default input method editor (IME) –aka the default keyboard apps. MAC address randomization on by default Google introduced  MAC address  randomization  in Android 6.0 , but devices broadcast a random MAC address only when the smartphone would initiate a bac

  Google, along with researchers at Stanford University and Brown University, have extended the open-source Snorkel tool to make it industrial-strength for enterprise machine learning. The work points the way to a path beyond traditional data integration. There's always been a rich market for software tools that clean up enterprise data and integrate it to make it more useful. With the mantra that "data is the new oil," there is more than ever a very good sales pitch to be made by vendors large and small, from Oracle to Talend. But what if nothing needed to be cleaned up, per se? What if, instead, the most valuable parts of the data could be transferred, in a sense, into machine learning models, without altering the data itself? That notion is implied by a new technology introduced Thursday by Google's AI team, in conjunction with Brown University and Stanford University. The code, which goes by the somewhat ungainly name "Snorkel DryBell," builds on top of

  5G is not the be all and end all, Cisco has said, with Wi-Fi 6 needed to enable indoor coverage and nano-satellites necessary for ensuring the entire world is connected. With 90 percent of the world's landmass and 3.7 billion people still without access to connectivity, Cisco Australia and New Zealand CTO Kevin Bloch has argued that while 5G is the hottest buzzword, nano-satellites are what is really needed right now. "Nobody here is going to benefit from 5G yet, and it's going to take a long time, because the speed on 4G is pretty good right now already," Bloch told at Cisco Live 2019 in Melbourne. "There might be a very small percentage of consumers who may want to ... buy the latest and greatest gadget, [but] 5G handsets will cost a lot more for only an incremental speed increase." On the other hand, Cisco is currently helping a lot of farmers in Australia who have no access to connectivity. "Yeah, the NBN is going to swing around, but there's

  Thanks to the rise of streaming, Samsung is discontinuing its Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray player lines. That's lousy news for people who love older TV shows and movies. Over 10 years ago,  Samsung   released the first commercial Blu-ray video disc player. Within a few years, Samsung and other Blu-ray OEMs had defeated their rival HD DVD manufacturers. They were set to dominate the video world. Then,   streaming came along   and everything changed. Blu-ray is dead. It's not often that an industry's leading OEM quits, but that's what Samsung has done. Samsung had 37 percent of the market, followed by Sony at 31 percent and LG at 13 percent, according to market research firm  NPD Group . On Amazon, Samsung had four of Amazon's  10 best-selling Blu-ray players  including the most popular model. With its demise, Blu-ray follows Laserdisc, BetaMax, and VHS VCRs into the second-hand stores. DVDs may soon follow. Ted Sarandos,  Netflix 's longtime head of content told Vari

  The hacker this time is selling an additional 93 million user records from eight companies on a Dark Web marketplace. The hacker who earlier stole and posted data of close to 750 million users of various popular websites on a Dark Web marketplace has now put up the third set of nearly 93 million hacked databases for sale. According to a report on popular news website late Sunday, the hacker this time is selling an additional 93 million user records from eight companies, including GfyCat which is a popular GIF hosting and sharing platform. "The hacker is selling each database individually on Dream Market. Together, all eight are worth 2.6249 bitcoin, which amounts to roughly $9,400," said the report. The stolen information mainly includes account holders' names, email addresses and passwords. The hacker, who goes by the name Gnosticplayers, earlier posted a batch of 16 websites containing the data of 620 million users and a second batch of eight portals with the data of