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Facebook Finally, Really Deletes Your Deleted Photos
Aug 16th, 2012
Finally, when we delete an embarrassing image from our Facebook lives, it will be wiped from Facebook's servers in a "reasonable amount of time," Facebook told Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng, who has been following the saga since 2009. Before now, the photos sat on Facebook's servers, latent, yet still available, which is the exact opposite of what the action of deletion should mean. (Source: The Atlantic Wire) -
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A year after Facebook Inc's fumbled IPO, Wall Street remains slow to recognize what Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg argues has been an across-the-board improvement in its business. Facebook's ability to deliver ads to mobile phones, improvements in measuring the effectiveness of its ad... [Full Article]
Dots, the incredibly addictive connect-the-dots gaming app of the moment, is out on the iPad today, which will delight any player who has (ahem) found herself stuck at the same high score for the last week or so. The game, brought to us by the mad Internet geniuses at Betaworks, has attracted 3 million players in just a month, sucking iPhone owners... [Full Article]
No clear evidence suggests modern humans ate Neanderthals, much less that they did so enough to drive Neanderthals to extinction, despite recent claims from scientists in Spain. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
CLEVELAND (AP) - Indians closer Chris Perez has deactivated his Twitter account following two rough outings. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
In a move as fiendishly clever as it is galling, Microsoft tells the U.S. government about bugs in its notoriously buggy software before it fixes them so that intelligence agencies can use the vulnerabilities for the purposes of cyberspying. "That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists... [Full Article]
James Gandolfini, who won three Emmy Awards for his indelible role as mob boss Tony Soprano in HBO's "The Sopranos," died while on vacation in Italy at age 51. While Tony Soprano was a larger-than-life figure, Gandolfini was exceptionally modest and obsessive - he described himself as "a 260-pound Woody Allen." HBO called t... [Full Article]
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