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Review: Bluehost - an affordable, reliable web hosting service

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What is Bluehost Founded in 1996,  Bluehost  is one of the most popular web hosting providers on the internet. Being the hosting of choice for as many as 2 million websites all over the web, it is definitely a popular choice among netizens and content creators of the 21st century. One of the biggest winning points for Bluehost is their extremely affordable pricing scheme and their active customer support. This makes them the go-to option for most newcomers. In this review, we go on to review the service in detail and come out with a recommendation as to whether it will be useful for you. Features Like any other hosting service, Bluehost provides several options for its customers with prices starting as low as $3.95 per month. Some salient features that make Bluehost worth a try are: FREE Domain Name for 1st Year FREE SSL Certificate Included 1-Click WordPress Install 24/7 Support for clients. Performance According to the stats provided by host...

FaceApp: Ready to face the security and privacy issues?

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FaceApp,  the  AI-powered selfie-editing app  that’s been having another viral moment of late, has now responded to a privacy controversy that we covered earlier  here . You can find the company’s full statement at the bottom of this post. The tl;dr here is that concerns had been raised that FaceApp, a Russian startup, uploads users’ photos to the cloud — without making it clear to them that processing is not going on locally on their device. Another issue raised by FaceApp users was that the iOS app appears to be overriding settings if a user had denied access to their camera roll, after people reported they could still select and upload a photo — i.e. despite the app not having permission to access their photos. As we reported earlier, the latter is actually allowed behavior in iOS — which gives users the power to choose to block an app from full camera roll access but select individual photos to upload if they so wish. This isn’t a conspiracy, thou...