For people who want to use Facebook anonymously, the social network is now allowing Tor access directly from its Android app, expanding on its existing support from Tor-enabled browsers.
Facebook is rolling out a new feature on its Android app that will let mobile users access the social network anonymously over The Onion Router network, or Tor. You might not think of Facebook as a champion of privacy but the company did break new ground by launching an .onion address in 2014, so users could access the social network anonymously, without giving up their real location.
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Ubuntu on the phone, tablet or desktop is not the only thing Canonical is working on in 2016, as Mark Shuttleworth and his team of skilled IoT engineers over Canonical are planning great new features for the Snappy Ubuntu Core operating system for embedded and Internet of Things devices.
The latest release of the Linux distro now called “Depth OS” deserves serious consideration. It is fast, reliable and innovative, with an impressive homegrown desktop design dubbed “Deepin Desktop Environment.” Depth OS has a bit of an identity problem. It’s not well known outside Asia and Europe, but that’s not the major cause of confusion. The problem is that the open source community that developed the distro seems to have a difficult time deciding what to call it. It has had several names, including “Hiweed GNU/Linux,” “Linux Deepin,” “Deepin” and now “Depth OS.”…
The Linux- and Android-friendly “JaguarBoard” SBC, based on a 64-bit quad core Atom processor, has achieved 600 percent of its Kickstarter funding goal.
There you have it. Canonical promised this for a long time now, and it would appear that the London-based company behind the world’s most popular free operating system, Ubuntu Linux, will finally unveil the first ever, real Ubuntu tablet device this year, during the upcoming MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2016 event.