Google’s Schmidt Says Inequality Will Be Number One Issue For Democracies

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Tumblr Now Lets You Dial A Toll-Free Number To Post Audio To Your Blog

Tumblr today added a new audio posting feature that lets you dial a toll-free number with your phone in order to post a short recording directly to your blog. We nearly missed the news of the addition because, in typical Tumblr fashion, the company doesn’t exactly describe the feature in detail on its blog. In fact, the post only reads, “Operators are standing by. Call now!”and is accompanied by some goofy video, which seemed like a joke.

But according to the video, users can now go into their Tumblr Settings, in order to first associate their phone number with their Tumblr account, then dial 1-866-584-6757 to record the audio. (If you try dialing the number before first configuring your settings, the system says your phone is not recognized and doesn’t allow you to post.)

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Snapchat Downplays Phone Number Matching Hack, Says It’s Added New Counter-Measures

Following security researchers publishing a way to match Snapchat usernames to phone numbers, Snapchat has published a skimpy statement making the hack sound impractical and noting “We recently added additional counter-measures and continue to make improvements to combat spam and abuse.”

Earlier this week ZDNet published an in-depth write-up of how white-hat Gibson Security researchers had tried to notify Snapchat of a way hackers could connect usernames to phone numbers for use in stalking, but were ignored. The GibSec team then published the exploit publicly on Christmas Eve. Read ZDNet’s post for full details on how the hack works.

Snapchat hadn’t provided a public statement until now, and what it’s offered isn’t very satisfying. “Theoretically, if someone were able to upload a huge set of phone numbers, like every number in an area code, or every possible number in the U.S., they could create a database of the results and match usernames to phone numbers that way. Over the past year we’ve implemented various safeguards to make it more difficult to do.” It goes on to note it’s added more barriers to the use of this hack.

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New SwiftKey beta brings over 500 emoji and an optional number row to Android keyboards

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SwiftKey released a new beta version of its customizable Android keyboard app today, adding support for over 500 emoji characters and an optional, dedicated row of numbers.

Emoji are popular emoticons or symbols that convey common words or phrases. In version 4.5 of SwiftKey

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