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TikTok’s Biggest Hits of the Year — and Its Predictions for 2020 - The New York Times 10 December 2019

TikTok has released the TikTok 100, a year-in-review list that names the top videos, genres, creators and memes that shaped the fastest-growing platform of the past year. The list highlights popular TikToks in topic areas like beauty and style, sports, pets and dance trends.

Are You One Of Avast’s 400 Million Users? This Is Why It Collects And Sells Your Web Habits. 10 December 2019

Here’s how it works, according to Vlcek: Avast users have their Web activity harvested by the company’s browser extensions. But before it lands on Avast servers, the data is stripped of anything that might expose an individual’s identity, such as a name in the URL, as when a Facebook user is logged in. All that […]

Verizon kills email accounts of archivists trying to save Yahoo Groups history | ZDNet 10 December 2019

According to the Archive Team: "As of 2019-10-16 the directory lists 5,619,351 groups. 2,752,112 of them have been discovered. 1,483,853 (54%) have public message archives with an estimated number of 2.1 billion messages (1,389 messages per group on average so far). 1.8 billion messages (86%) have been archived as of 2018-10-28." Verizon has issued a […]

Google Maps' Incognito Mode arrives on iOS | VentureBeat 10 December 2019

Soon, iOS users will be able to tap Google Maps for navigation and location searches without revealing their personal data. In a blog post, Google today announced that Incognito Mode, a privacy feature revealed earlier this year that recently came to Maps on Android, will arrive on iOS in the coming days. Inspired by the […]

Making Pixel more helpful with the first Pixel feature drop 10 December 2019

. Our first one, coming this month, includes a new way to capture portraits, easier Duo calls and automatic call screening.

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