Mar 18
The store’s manager admits “stubbornnes” is a main reason this last video store remains open.
Mar 18
Apparently Trump needs the words of a suspected mass shooter in New Zealand to exonerate him.
Mar 18
They enjoyed pints of Guinness and the duchess handed out shamrocks.
Mar 18
Netflix has a new rock biopic.
Mar 18
Jordyn Woods, meanwhile, isn’t hiding on Instagram anymore.
Mar 18
This week a set of scientists discovered a meteor explosion that occurred in early December, 2018. The event was detected by other instruments soon after taking place, but now we’ve got our first visual evidence in fire red and orange. This explosive image comes from the Japanese Himawari-8 weather satellite, and was first reported globally on the 15th of March … Continue reading
Mar 18
Last week, Spotify filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Apple. While the complaint is a multifaceted one, the long and short of it is that Spotify claims Apple has an unfair advantage when it comes to competing on the App Store. Since Apple gets the final say when it comes to what’s published on the App Store, … Continue reading
Mar 18
New Zealand ISPs Say They're Blocking Sites That Fail to Remove Christchurch Shooting Video
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Last week, a heavily-armed 28-year-old entered two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and opened fire, killing at least 50 in the country’s worst modern shooting. Prior to attacking dozens of Muslim worshipers, the killer posted a manifesto, outlining why he planned to commit mass murder, and he livestreamed a…
Mar 18
Don’t expect to catch up on your favorite shows during class if you go to Purdue University. That’s because the university has decided to ban Netflix and other streaming services in academic buildings. This ban extends to music streaming services as well in academic buildings on the West Lafayette, Ind., campus. The ban obviously applies if the students are using the university Wi-Fi.
Not only has the university banned access to Pandora, Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services, it’s also no longer allowing firmware updates for Apple devices on the Wi-Fi network. This is the result of a pilot program that Purdue ran during the fall which prevented students from accessing five streaming services in four lecture halls.
It has now decided to extend this program to other academic buildings on the campus while also increasing the number of services that are no longer allowed. It may be blazing a new trail here as there don’t seem to be a lot of other schools that implement a similar ban.
Purdue’s executive director of information technology infrastructure Mark Sonstein told the Washington Post that this ban has been imposed in order to free up bandwidth for academic purposes.
Students will not be able to access the streaming services over Wi-Fi in classrooms, lecture halls, and labs from 7am to 10pm Monday through Friday. This ban will not be implemented in social spaces and residence calls. Students are free to use cellular data if they really want to watch the next episode of Stranger Things during class.
Purdue University Bans Netflix In Academic Buildings
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Mar 18
You may not give MySpace a second thought these days but it was a major social network a long time ago. It has obviously not aged well since the advent of Facebook and other platforms but has kept chugging along. A recent server migration will cause problems for users who have still been holding on to their MySpace uploads from over a decade ago because the platform has lost a huge amount of user data.
Some users had been wondering for months why music links on MySpace were no longer working. The company had said that it was working to address the problem and it has now revealed the reason for the problem.
“As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace,” it said. This means that all music uploaded by users between 2003 and 2015 is now lost.
Some of you might remember that music used to be a pretty big deal on MySpace. It was largely used for sharing new music and has launched the careers of several artists such as Kate Nash and the Arctic Monkeys. “We apologize for the inconvenience,” MySpace said in a statement. One can only hope that affected users had backups.
Myspace Has Lost A Decade’s Worth Of Music Uploads
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