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Jumbo is an iPhone app that clears your old tweets and Google searches

Apr15
by on April 15, 2019 at 1:15 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


There’s an insane amount of news every day about social networks screwing up and compromising user data. So, it’s advisable that you keep your privacy settings in check to avoid giving away any information unintentionally. Thankfully, this new iPhone app, Jumbo, will help you out with this. The app offers plenty of privacy-related functionality for Twitter, Facebook, Amazon Alexa, and Google searches. For Twitter, it can delete your older tweets, and save them to your phone or cloud. You have options to delete tweets older than a day, a week, a month, or three months. Because of Twitter’s API limits, the…

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Kickstart a lucrative IT career with this AWS training bundle, now $50

Apr15
by on April 15, 2019 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers


AWS controls a market share as large as its next four cloud competitors combined. So for those looking to make a splash (and a healthy living) as an IT cloud expert, AWS is what they need to know.  Right now, TNW Deals is slashing the price on the AWS Solutions Architect Certification Bundle by over 90 percent, down to just $49.

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How tech giants can strangle transformative tech at birth — and how to stop them

Apr15
by on April 15, 2019 at 12:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


Google is digesting its third whopping antitrust penalty from the European Commission, having been fined €1.5 billion (£1.3 billion) for abusing its market dominance around online advertising. The case concerned web publishers embedding a Google-powered search engine on their site, and being prevented from letting third parties place search adverts at the top of search results. Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition commissioner, said this “denied other companies the possibility to compete on the merits and to innovate – and consumers the benefits of competition”. It takes the EC’s total antitrust fines against Google to €8.2 billion in two years, following…

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2/3 of EU states voted for atrocious Copyright Reform — now all will have to adopt it

Apr15
by on April 15, 2019 at 10:16 am
Posted In: Around the Web


The absolute final vote on the incredibly controversial Copyright Reform was held today, with 19 EU member states voting in favor of making it EU law. Despite the Netherlands, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Finland, and Sweden voting against the Copyright Reform — and Estonia, Belgium, and Slovenia abstaining — it’ll now be mandatory for all EU countries to implement the law at a national level. This will include the most controversial parts of the directive: Article 11 (aka link tax) and Article 13 (aka upload filters).   Voting results, #Copyright directive approved: pic.twitter.com/kHPp8Q8xVI — Julia Reda (@Senficon) April 15, 2019 No…

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CHEAP: Get 3 (yes, a whole 3!) Amazon Echo Dots for only $70! WOW!

Apr15
by on April 15, 2019 at 10:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! It’s almost Easter everyone! That means one thing: rolling back a boulder and revealing some spicy deals. And, boy, do we have an offer for you: three Amazon Echo Dots for only $70! Whether you already have an Echo device and want to expand your set-up, or if you’re just starting out building your very own smart home, this is the deal for you. The Echo Dot is one of the smallest of Amazon‘s range of voice-activated assistants. These little devices still contain a…

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