Instagram remove milhões de contas falsas; usuários imploram para que elas voltem

Instagram removes millions of fake accounts; users beg them to come back

This week, Instagram decided to clean up, removing spam accounts and profiles that violate the social network's rules. But this took a lot of people by surprise, especially those who were heavily followed by bots. Now popular users don't feel that popular – and they want the bots back. Really. In the week [...]Read More »
No novo Secret você pode conversar anonimamente com qualquer um da rede

In the new Secret you can chat anonymously with anyone on the network

It looked like 2014 would be the year of anonymous apps. And, to a certain extent, it was: abroad, several applications, such as Whisper, Yik Yak and FireChat, drew attention in different contexts and moments, and Secret, launched in February in the USA, landed in Brazil, became controversial and ended up like the most popular app of the year, according [...]Read More »
Sem querer, Apple vai ajudar o Google a nos trazer o futuro do dinheiro

Unintentionally, Apple will help Google bring us the future of money

Apple this week launched its Apple Pay payments service in the US. It was activated through the iOS 8.1 update, and allows you to make online payments on devices with Touch ID. In addition, it works in physical stores with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, which have NFC just for that. This could be great news [...]Read More »
Pirate Bay lança site móvel e promete portais para TV e filmes

Pirate Bay launches mobile site and promises TV and movie portals

There are several apps for downloading torrents on Android, Windows Phone and iOS (jailbroken or nifty), but finding torrents isn't always easy: the Pirate Bay website, for example, is not adapted for the small screen of the cell phone. By the way, it wasn't: Meet Mobile Bay. When accessing the Pirate Bay on your smartphone or [...]Read More »
Ligações para celular de outra operadora vão ficar mais baratas

Mobile calls from another operator will be cheaper

For ten years, Anatel has been in an arm wrestle with mobile operators to reduce the interconnection fee – it is because of it that calls between different operators are so expensive. This Friday, the war is over: Anatel announced that the VU-M (Valor de Uso Móvel), today around R$ 0.24, will drop to R$ 0.02… [...]Read More »
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