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Twitter just boosted its security with a new two-factor login method. The new option, which was announced in the form of a YouTube video, oddly enough, allows users to require a verification code each time they log in. Once this is enabled, Twitter will send a code to your phone each time you log in from the website or third-party apps. You’ll need to type in that temporary code to access your account. It’s a process many of us are already familiar with — online banking, corporate intranet sites and services like Evernote offer similar two-factor authentication options to their users. It’s not clear when the new feature will roll out (it hasn’t hit our account just yet), but once it’s available, setup appears to be straightforward. You can see how it works in the video just past the break.

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Justin Bieber, the Corvette C7, and dogs: Google is distilling its trend results into top ten charts, with a colorful new real-time display of what people are searching for most. The popular queries are subdivided into forty categories – spanning sport, music stars, movies, and more – and will be updated month, Google said.

For a more immediate insight into what’s being searched for, however, there’s also the new visualization tool for hot searches. That flicks through the latest queries in Google’s typically luminous colors.

There’s perhaps more to be gleaned from the top trends charts – though the hot searches display might look good as a screensaver – and you can break down the lists by location and date. Interestingly, Google’s results go back to January 2004, when searchers were most interested in Moby, Paris Hilton, and McDonald’s.

In the intervening period, Kim Kardashian has knocked Paris from the top spot, and Pizza Hut has ousted its burger-vending rival. Moby has dropped to fourth place, with Skrillex taking pole position.

Despite diversions like Glass, search still remains Google’s key focus online. Earlier today, the company activated the next generation of “conversational search” for Chrome users, using its Knowledge Graph technology to give inferential search results, among other things.

Google Top Trends maps our internet obsessions since 2004 is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Speed. It’s a movie. It’s a drug. And it’s also something that throngs of internet users the world over cannot get enough of. Thankfully, the wizards at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have figured out a way to satisfy the unsatisfiable, announcing this week a world record in the area of wireless data transmission. Researchers were able to achieve 40Gbit/sec at 240GHz over a distance of one kilometer, essentially matching the capacity of optical fiber… but, you know, without the actual tether.

The goal here, of course, isn’t to lower your ping times beyond where they are already; it’s to give rural communities across the globe a decent shot at enjoying broadband. Distances of over one kilometer have already been covered by using a long range demonstrator, which the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology set up between two skyscrapers as part of the project “Millilink”. There’s no clear word on when the findings will be ported over to the commercial realm, but given the traction we’re seeing in the white spaces arena, we doubt you’ll have to wait long.

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Via: Physorg

Source: Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics

Pandora, which is about to face a big competitor when Apple irons out its remaining snags with iRadio, has just announced a new feature – Pandora Premieres. This station is unlike the rest, allowing users to listen to early album releases before they’re available for purchase. While not much is available via it right now,

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While Flickr did seem generous by offering free users 1TB of space as long as they’re willing to put up with ads, it also got rid of the much-beloved Flickr Pro option that awarded unlimited storage for only $25 a year. Now the only upgrade options are to cough up $50 annually to go ad-free or $500 a year for 2TB instead of one. Many existing Pro users, thinking they would be forced one way or another, took to social media and Flickr forums to vent their frustrations at the potential loss of that limitless space.

However, Yahoo has confirmed to us that existing Flickr Pro users will continue to enjoy unlimited storage as long as they pay $25 a year to renew their subscription. In addition, we have word that there are no plans for Pro renewals to go away. There’s also a FAQ posted on Flickr that clarifies the issue, stating “recurring Pro users currently have the ability to renew.” That said, if you do let your subscription expire, your account will automatically be downgraded to the free version, so Pro users would do best to keep on the renewal ball if they want their years of precious memories to stay on the service.

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