Report: Security and Privacy Fears Can Affect Internet Use and other top stories.

• Report: Security and Privacy Fears Can Affect Internet Use

  

  Worried about online security? You're not alone. Plenty of others worry, too; in fact, some even go so far as to do fewer things online because they're concerned about security and privacy. According to the results of a survey from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which tapped just around 41,000 households or so to get its data, just shy of one-fifth indicated that they were the victims of some kind of negative personal experience online related to security and..

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• Amazon Just Got a Big Win in the Internet of Things Market

  

  The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly as businesses deploy millions of devices that collect and exchange data. In order to aggregate and make sense of all this data, most businesses rely on a third-party company to provide a cloud platform. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft and Google -- the Alphabet subsidiary -- all have their own IoT platforms, as do smaller providers like Salesforce (NYSE:CRM). Salesforce is still trialing its IoT suite with a few select businesses, but it's findin..

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• Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Just Added An Awesome New Feature

  

  One of the biggest setbacks for the Xbox One's backwards compatibility feature was the lack of multi-disc support. This meant that games requiring more than one disc on the Xbox 360 were not playable on the Xbox One. But now they are. Game Informer is reporting that Larry Hryb, better known in the Xbox gaming community as Major Nelson, revealed that the engineers working on the Xbox One have managed to achieve multi-disc backwards compatibility. In response to a post on Reddit, Hryb stated, ..

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• Apple to send out update this week to help prevent iTunes bug from deleting more music from users' libraries

  

  If you are noticing that music is disappearing from your iTunes library, you're not alone. Others are complaining about missing music. With Apple baffled as to the reason behind this, the tech titan tried to replicate the situation, hoping it might stumble onto the explanation for this mystery. But apparently Apple could not recreate the issue.Apple says that it will be sending out an update to iTunes early this coming week which takes "additional safeguards." The company believes that an iTunes..

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• Verizon Ups Data Caps On Prepaid Plans But You'll Need To Setup Auto-Pay To Tap In

  

  Verizon plans on raising its data limit for prepaid smartphone plans. Starting May 15th, the data limit on Verizon's $45 a month plan jumps from 1GB to 3GB, while the $60 plan has been doubled to 6GB. This includes unlimited talk and text in the United States. The $45 plan comes with free texting to Mexico and Canada while the $60 plan comes with free texting and calling to both countries. There is, however, a catch -- you will need to set up Auto Pay in order to reap the benefits. Verizon’s ..

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• Privacy online: OKCupid study raises new questions about 'public' data

  

  When you sign up for a dating website, you are making your information available for other users to see. But does that mean your information is “public”?Experts are now mulling this question after a group of researchers released a data set of nearly 70,000 users from the online dating site OkCupid.The researchers, Emil Kirkegaard, Oliver Nordbjerg, and Julius Daugbjerg Bjerrekær – who are affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark – used a "scraper," or a browser extension designed to collect..

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• 'Battlefield 1' breakdown reveals a close attention to history

  

  There are some obvious concessions to gameplay (a medic probably wouldn't be carrying crutches around), but even some of these make sense. That British soldier carrying a German anti-armor rifle? There are many examples of one side using the other's weapons in a pinch. In fact, the trailer is more realistic than The Great War suggests. That seemingly implausible metal body armor you see at one point is the "Sappenpanzer Gesichtsmaske," an uncommon form of protection given to machine gunners..

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