If students in Ontario want to friend their favourite teacher on Facebook, it’s not going to happen. The Ontario College of Teachers has forbidden all teachers from “friending” their students on the popular social networking site. All Facebookreports that In the eight-page missive released by the college, entitled “Professional Advisory on the Use of Electronic Communication,” teachers are told how to conduct themselves when dealing with electronic messages, going so far as to explain what legal implications are involved....

Facebook appeared to be suffering from a bit of a headache this morning when it began blocking links related to its own Open Graph Protocol after users tried to share links on their profile or via a Page. Whilst page recommendations and ‘Likes’ were still permitted, the sharing of a link manually seemed to be cause all sorts of issues on Facebook, bringing up the following error: The content you’re trying to share includes a link that’s been blocked for being spammy or unsafe:http://ogp....

Have you experienced tinnitus these past 24 hours due to your smartphone notifying you of an uncharacteristic barrage of emails? It’s not because your social worth has suddenly skyrocketed – a Facebook glitch caused some users to lose their email settings. The glitch, first acknowledged last night, has since been fixed (yay!), but if you’re one of the unfortunate souls receiving both email and Facebook app notifications; you’ll have to manually update your email preferences (boo!...

Update at foot of post. Google has been found to be indexing millions of image thumbnails from Microsoft’s Bing search engine, a little embarrassing seeing as GoogleaccusedMicrosoft of copying its search results back in February this year. Search Engine Roundtablereportson adiscussionon the Google Webmaster Help forums, where a user flagged up that he had spotted theproblem, explaining “I am not so sure that it’s a good idea to index the cache thumbnails of another image search engine....

We have the technology to sendrovers to Marsandexplore the deepest parts of the ocean, but it can still take days and multitudes of paperwork just tomove to a new city, start your own business, or do any other task that requires multiple government. These are the small moments in life that turn well-adjusted individuals into the psychopaths of the future. While even the most traditional industries from big banks to agriculture have experienced a technological boom with the help of fintech and agritech startups, government bodies have largely been left behind....