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Everybody Shut Up About The Fake 10,000 Character Limit On Twitter
Once again, the internet is quivering with angst over Twitter ditching its 140-character limit. A Re/code report today claims that the microblogging service will soon become much less micro by expanding that limit to 10,000 characters. Everybody calm down.
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This Page Transforms Live Wikipedia Edits Into Music
If you have data, you can find a weird and wonderful way to visualise it. Take real-time changes to Wikipedia, something that would normally be presented in a rather dry, analytical form, has been transformed into a live musical performance composed of additions, subtractions and new user registrations.
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Ask Gizmodo: Does A VPN App Hide All My Internet Traffic?
Hi Gizmodo, does a VPN app on a phone make all internet traffic go through it? I’m heading to London and Iceland and want to use unsecured Wi-Fi for banking and email. Do the VPNs push Safari as well as things like the Facebook app through them to be secure? Cheers, Mickus.
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Internet For All Is An Impossible Dream Right Now
From satellites, to autonomous solar-powered drones, or balloons, there have been plenty of ideas recently on how to connect up the world. Facebook, Google, large international organisations, national governments, even Bono, have laid out ideas of a near future in which we are all hooked into the network.