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Facebook is trying to give its users more control over their profile pictures

Facebook has started testing new tools in India to give privacy-conscious individuals more control over who can download and share their profile photos. Facebook announced yesterday that it has begun testing new tools in India to give privacy-conscious individuals more control over who can download and share their profile photos. The company also said that …

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Tumblr now allows you to block explicit content with “Safe Mode”

Tumblr is making significant additions to its content filtering features. The platform has added a brand new ‘Safe Mode’ for browsing content on its site. The new tool allows you to keep unwanted content away from the Tumblr Dashboard as well. Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, …

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Scientist Says Asteroid May Hit Earth Anytime

An asteroid collision with the Earth can happen in just a matter of time, according to an astrophysicist from Ireleand. Astrophysicist Alan Fitzsimmons, from the Queen’s University in Belfast, Ireland, issued the warning ahead of Asteroid Day on June 30, which was set to remember the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia, when an explosion believed …

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Linux System Administration – Part 3

How to monitor the loaded kernel modules A Linux system administrator may be required to watching the loaded kernel modules. The command that help to achieve this is “lsmod”. Example :

Another way to list all currently loaded kernel modules is to use “cat /proc/modules”. Example :

Getting information about files The “ls …

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Powershell – A brief technical introduction: 1

Windows Powershell is a great tool for writing Windows based administration scripts. It is getting popular day-by-day due to its object oriented capabilities. Also the administrators find it very handy for writing scripts  in a Windows platform much similar to the Unix based shell scripting. How to Install PowerShell ISE and Enable PowerShell Scripts PowerShell 2.0 …

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Oracle to use Kubernetes for managing cloud containers

Oracle will be partnering with CoreOS and using Kubernetes in order to manage its cloud containers. Bob Quillin, VP of the Oracle Container Group, announced at CoreOS Fest in San Fransisco that Oracle would support Kubernetes for both its customers and in-house. As for containers, Oracle has already committed to Docker. Timothy J Fontaine, the Oracle …

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Microsoft Surface Laptop : First Impressions

Microsoft’s new surface laptop, which is soon to be released, will be a compact rival to the core Apple MacBook. Priced at $999, the Microsoft Surface laptop is targeted  at students. This is the first device to launch with Windows 10 S as the operating system. Following are some of the noticeable points : 1) It …

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Discovery of 2D Magnets Could Open Up a World of Potential Applications

Scientists have for the first time discovered two-dimensional magnets that are formed by a single layer of atoms and may pave the way for more compact and efficient devices. Magnetic materials form the basis of technologies that play increasingly pivotal roles in our lives today, including sensing and hard-disk data storage. For smaller and faster …

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