Researchers have discovered that social networking site Facebook is able to track the buying habits of its users on affiliated third-party sites even when they are logged out of their account or have opted out of its tracking service.

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At the bottom of your inbox, you’ll see information about the time of the last activity on your account and whether it’s still open in another location:

For every video on YouTube, the judge required Google to turn over to Viacom the login name of every user who had watched it, and the address of their computer

Each of the 21 stages are clearly marked on the map, taking you over more than 3,500 km (2,200 miles) around the 21 hairpin bends of the notoriously steep Alpe d’Huez to the finishing line on the cobbled streets of the Champs Elysees.

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This brilliant hoax was the handiwork of ‘Penpricks’ a journalists’ collective in Goa whose blog, penpricks.blogspot.com, is dedicated to discovering “the rotund flanks and the shaggy underbelly of the Goan media. And of course, the rare honest ri

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The problem with discussing politics is that it’s customary for people to say much based upon little information

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Unfortunately, it’s remarkably selective in its suggestion of topics that need critical thinking, as it cites scientific subjects “including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.”

Under a White House policy issued in August 2005, all federal agencies must demonstrate the ability to pass IPv6 packets across their backbone networks by this deadline.

The company has maintained that it hasn’t used any of that information to draw inferences about users to target ads.

Until now.

A computer intrusion into a Citibank server that processes ATM withdrawals led to two Brooklyn men making hundreds of fraudulent withdrawals from New York City cash machines in February, pocketing at least $750,000 in cash

The FBI believes the brains behind the operation is a Russian man, who’s receiving the lion’s share of the profits through international wire transfers and online-payment systems.