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Donald Cyprian believes Instant Christ, a groundbreaking new Christian prayer app for those seeking to socialize with others of the same faith, is going to change the world.

Facebook said its news feed for web and Android platform users will now support 360-degree videos.

If you, like many others, have found that you cannot connect with Skype today, then you are not alone, because it is affecting Skype users all around the world. Skype, which has a reputation for providing video chats for users online, began to experience a network flaw which has resulted from many viewers not being able to sign in properly. Microsoft, who acquired Skype back in 2011, is working with Skype to find a solution. Considering the updates Skype has been given on Windows 10, this is bad timing for users that want to take advantage of the new features.

Those that use Facebook habitually have probably noticed that unlike some other websites, there isn't really a "Dislike" button. Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that this is going to change, but not in the way you expect. The button might not be an actual "Dislike", but it will address something important for Facebook subscribers.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Authority is investigating an 18-year-old mechanical engineering student from Connecticut who uploaded a video showing a quadcopter he purportedly fitted with a gun and was shown firing shots as it hovered above ground.

VK -- Russia's version of Facebook -- has launched a photo-sharing mobile application that is reportedly aimed to give Instagram a run for its money.

Ten years after three former PayPal employees created YouTube, the video-sharing site is now bigger than any cable network in the United States.

A new social network from Brazil called Facegloria has taken off, signing up 100,000 users in one month according to its founders. The website aims to be a Facebook alternative for Christians.

An estimated three million Facebook users changed their profile pictures to a red equals sign or rainbow - the logo used by the Human Rights Campaign-in celebration of the controversial decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to allow gay marriages across the country on Friday.

American telecommunications giant Verizon has finalized a deal to acquire Internet pioneer AOL in a $4.4 billion all-cash deal as the wireless carrier puts its future in providing video content for web and mobile phones and hopefully cashing in on online ads, various media said.

An organization called the END IT Movement started a trend #enditmovement on social media on Friday, highlighting the issue of ending modern-day slavery around the world.

Biometric security is poised to have a breakout year, driven largely by cheaper, more sophisticated sensors and a global user market that is experiencing massive password fatigue.

For as long as the Internet has existed, the most common model for generating revenue has been ads which, when clicked, pay out tiny amounts of money. Based on a major mobile media conference this week and recent news from Facebook, that model is about to change.

Social media websites Facebook and Instagram went down early Tuesday morning, preventing people around the world from communicating through those channels.

Starting with media-only events this coming Sunday, the annual major gathering of the technology world in Las Vegas known as CES (The International Consumer Electronics Show) will kick off six days of mass hype, hoopla, and hopefully real news. It will set the tone for what consumers can expect in the coming year and, as CES history has shown, there will be some interesting technology which could have a big impact and new products that won't go anywhere at all.

"Employees are ridiculously expensive right now." (Venture capitalist Bill Gurley at SV Innovation Summit in July)

In less than 72 hours, new laws passed primarily by state legislatures in 2014 will go into effect that will impact how we use technology in the coming year. These laws run the gamut, covering everything from nude pictures to self-driving cars.

As shoppers mob stores and online sites to finish their holiday shopping this month, they will find no shortage of books for sale by technology executives from companies big and small. Indeed, 2014 was a year when a number of tech company leaders, some well-known and a few who are not, felt compelled to share their philosophies of management, business savvy, and a lot more in hardbound, glossily packaged books.

It did not get a lot of media attention last month, but Napster co-founder and Facebook's first president Sean Parker took a major step towards building his new company - Brigade Media - that hopes to transform voter engagement at the state and federal level. Parker joins a growing list of technology leaders and billionaires who have formed for-profit and non-profit ventures over the past two years seeking to capitalize on the interest of political and advocacy campaigns in using new technologies to further their cause.

MongoDB held their fifth annual "DB Days" event in San Francisco earlier this month, featuring presentations from some of their bigger name partners and customers such as eBay, Teradata, and Rackspace, but they also provided further evidence that they are poised to take full advantage of the big data revolution.

An impressive lineup of technology executives took the stage on Tuesday in San Francisco at "Navigate," the Atlantic Tech Conference 2014, and several company leaders offered glimpses into future new technologies, the evolving "Internet of Things" industry, and their own personal passions.

PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel spoke to attendees at the first Post Seed 2014 Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday and told the gathering that he did not view the currently hot technology startup market as a tech bubble. "We are nowhere near the 1999/2000 insanity," said Thiel, referring to the infamous "dot com" collapse when many new technology firms failed to survive.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case involving online threats made through Facebook. It is the first time that the nation's highest court will confront the question of whether social media users can be prosecuted for careless actions online and represents a continued willingness by the judicial branch to deal with technology issues in the absence of action by Congress or the White House.

With the explosion of wearable computing products like the Fitbit and rapid advances in virtual reality devices like the Oculus Rift, technology designers have a golden opportunity to add huge value to the next wave of innovative new products that will reshape how we experience the world.

At the Privacy Identity Innovation (Pii) Conference, held over three days last week in Palo Alto, California, there was a great deal of discussion over the need for new tools to protect online users from government or hacker intrusion. Conference attendees were treated to appearances and demos by the makers of innovative products in this space, despite concerns that some of these new tools may violate privacy boundaries as well.