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Tech Digest daily roundup: Tesla to recall 475,000 cars in the US
Tesla is to recall more than 475,000 cars in the US, according to documents filed with the US safety regulator. The electric vehicle firm announced it was recalling 356,309 vehicles because of potential rear-view camera issues affecting 2017-2020 Model 3 Teslas. A further 119,009 Model S vehicles will also be recalled because of potential problems…
Yahoo owner sells Tumblr microblogging site
Microblogging platform Tumblr is being sold off by American telecommunications company Verizon, just two years after it was acquired as part of its Yahoo takeover. Automattic, the firm behind blogging service WordPress.com, will gain ownership of Tumblr, which its chief executive described as “a once-in-a-generation opportunity to have two beloved platforms work alongside each other…
Tumblr returns to the App Store ahead of adult content ban
The app for social networking site Tumblr has reappeared on Apple's App Store after the platform announced it is to ban all explicit adult content. The app was removed in November after child pornography images were uncovered on the site, having evaded the service’s content filters. Previously, adult content was allowed when an age-restricted ‘safe…
Microblogging site Tumblr to ban adult content on platform
Tumblr hosts around 447.2 million blogs (PA) Microblogging site Tumblr has announced plans to ban all pornographic content from its platform, in a massive crackdown after child pornography was uncovered. From December 17, explicit adult content and most nudity will no longer be allowed on the site, with some non-sexual…
Tumblr pulled from Apple’s App Store over child pornography content
Social network and microblogging site Tumblr was pulled from Apple’s App Store last week because of images depicting child sex abuse, it has emerged. Tumblr initially said it was “working to resolve the issue with the iOS app” when it mysteriously disappeared on November 16. Download.com learned that Tumblr was removed from the store due…
Is Yahoo about to ruin Tumblr?
Hold on to your Trigger Warnings, it seems that things could be about to change over at Tumblr. The site was bought in 2013 by Yahoo for a cool billion dollars, but until now has operated more or less completely independently. This looks like it is about to change though, with Business Insider reporting that…
The Digest: Vinyl is back… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Vinyl record sales hit 18-year high | BBC News "More than one million vinyl records have been sold in the UK so far this year - the first time the milestone has been achieved since 1996. The figures mark a largely unexpected resurgence in an industry now considered to be dominated by digital.…
OFFICIAL: Yahoo! is buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion
Yahoo have officially confirmed that they will be buying hipster blogging platform Tumblr in a a deal worth $1.1 billion. "We promise not to screw it up," revealed a candid Marissa Mayer, Yahoo! CEO on her own Tumblr. "Tumblr is…
TUMBLR OF THE DAY: Jim'll Paint it – Surreal MS Paint pictures, by request
"You name it, I'll paint it. On paint". That's the strapline to the Jim'll Paint It tumblr blog, the one thing that's keeping this tired Tech Digest hack chuckling through to the weekend. It's bloody amazing. It's a simple premise…
"Catch a Looter" tumblr blog: Do you recognise these UK rioters?
While technology and social media has been highlighted as a key enabler in the organisation of groups of looters during last night's horrific London riots, here's an opportunity to use tech and the web against those who terrorised the capital…