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What Your Instagram Filter Says About You

What do you think the most popular filter on Instagram is? Valencia for a little fade? Kelvin for photographical equivalent of spray on tans? Maybe Earlybird? Can #NoFilter be considered a filter? But even more than filter popularity, what do using specific filters say about you? This infographic explains. Read More >>

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piracy
Three More Torrent Sites Added to UK’s ISP Blockade of Shame

The High Court has ordered our ISPs to start auto-blocking three more sites linked with piracy, as a new batch of torrent providers are made to sit with The Pirate Bay on the inaccessible step. Read More >>

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ISPs
Sky Set to Automatically Block Porn at ISP Level to Protect the Kids

The popular ISP part of BSkyB is about to implement an ISP-level porn block, which it's introducing under the guise of a selfless plan to protect the kids of the nation from seeing very bad things happening to people's bottoms online. Read More >>

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internet
Online Porn Is Here to Stay in the UK: Automatic Smut Block Rejected Amid Public Apathy

The idea of making online porn an "opt-in" luxury has been binned, with government ministers saying there simply isn't enough public enthusiasm to support a default ISP block on all adult material. Read More >>

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Twitter vs. Instagram: Ultimate Filter Battle Royale

Twitter and Instagram want you to decide between the two of them. They used to be very different, but as of today, you can use them both to apply faux-vintage filters to your pictures. But only one can be the best. Read More >>

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Twitter Has Instagram-Like Photo Filters Now

Twitter just announced that it's adding Instagram-like photo filters in its iOS and Android apps. This has been a long time coming, but interestingly comes hot off the heels of Instagram recently pulling support of its pictures being shown inside Twitter. Read More >>

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apps
Hitstagram Adds That Warm, Scratchy Vinyl Feel to Your Lossless FLAC Files

Hitstagram is an exciting new way to add a layer of old school authenticity to your cold, modern digital music, with the forthcoming iOS and Android app generating convincing retro audio filters to soften today's harsh recordings. Read More >>

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internet
David Cameron Wants More Anti-Porn Filtering Options, Especially if You’ve Got Kids

David Cameron is believed to be preparing more measures to reduce the penetration of internet porn into our brains, with the PM said to be favouring a plan that would see internet users asked if they had kids when switching ISP. Read More >>

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piracy
BPI Wants More Torrent Sites Added to ISP’s Pirate Bay Block List

After successfully helping get (direct) access to the Pirate Bay officially blocked across all of the UK's key ISPs, the BPI is now said to be trying to add more torrent sites to the piracy blockade. Read More >>

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Shut Up Whiners, Instagram Is Great

Ah, Instagram, iPhone, Hipstamatic—they've all done so well to provide "real" photographers with so much to condemn, scoff at, and look down on. You know what? Get over it. Read More >>

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augmented reality
Hipsterise the Entire World With the Instaglasses Rose Tinted Specs

This latest form of wearable computing is a concept piece designed by Markus Gerke, which would see a pair of "Instaglasses" specs automatically rose-tinting, posterising and Lomo-graphing everything you see, thanks to a camera that adds trendy filters to your whole life view. Read More >>

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google
Google is Against ISP Porn Filters, Says They “Deskill Parents”

The UK's rush to automatic ISP-level porn filtering is not getting the backing of Google, which would prefer the people were educated in the ways of porn avoidance instead, with more emphasis put on good parenting so children know 14-hour porn marathons are bad and that those women probably aren't having much fun. Read More >>

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Facebook Has Begun Stuffing Instagram into Itself

After casually dropping a billion one dollar bills into Instagram's bulging lap, we were wondering what Facebook would do to its new purchase. Here's the first step: you'll soon have Instagram filters on your Facebook app. Sepia. Read More >>

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tv
Virgin Media Auto-Censor Takes the ‘Arse’ out of ‘Arsenal’

Virgin Media's automated censoring tool has been giving everyone a good laugh over the weekend, thanks to over enthusiastically scanning programme listings and removing potentially rude words regardless of context. Read More >>

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internet
TalkTalk’s Porn Filter Fails to Stop Massive Porn Site

A mother who claims she was "testing" TalkTalk's porn filter by having a look around Pornhub was shocked to find that the ISP's filtering system failed to block the site. As if the name wasn't enough of a clue. Read More >>