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06 / 10 / 17 - AOL shuts down Instant messenger after 20 years of online chat  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/06/aol-shuts-down-instant-messenger-aim#img-1 In this article, it discusses how AOL will discontinue Instant Messenger in 2 months after 20 years of online chat. On Friday of October, AOL declared of them discontinuing the Instant Messenger. Essentially, it says that AOL will discontinue the app on 15th December 2017 which would end the service for 20 years.  Michael Albers, vice president of communications at Oath, stated that the Instant Messenger app is becoming obselete in the sense that the way the people in the world communicate has profoundly changed and Instant Messenger doesn't meet those expectations of the society now. Back to when Instant Messenger was launched in 1997, it was clarified as the biggest trend in communication after email.  The app claimed more than 100 million people registered with it in 2001.  ...
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05 / 11 / 17 - Social media giants have "moral duty" to tackle child abuse  Within this article, it explores the dangers aiming towards the younger children online which is rapidly increasing. Many of the paedophillic behaviour occurs within games where mostly the children use it. The older people go on those games to target the vulnerable unsuspected children.  "Tech companies need to do more to combat the exponential growth in child sexual exploitation online" - Home Secretary Amber Rudd. She is going to meet the counterparts in the US government to dicuss the issue. She will also attend a roundtable discussion joined by big companies including Google, Facebook and Microsoft. The Home secretary have clarified that the work has to be more faster and quicker to act upon the problems of the vulnerability and the dangers that these children are in online.  There are more than 400 arrests for indecent images of children offences in the UK.  Some 500 c...
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