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As of 2019 splutters to an end, it's time for our annual lookback at our most-read tech stories, and to ask: "What happened next?".

Facebook and its family of apps that dominated this year's list with four entries - it will probably not surprise you that none of them were particularly brand-improvement.

The Chinese viral video app TikTok makes The Cut for the First Time . And many of The Other "big tech" names are there in one form or another.

But there are a few notable exceptions. Neither Elon Musk nor Tesla has managed, in spite of the and Google co-founders were originally on The List , but were squeezed out just before the publication.

Video gaming also missed, although Prince Harry is not attracted a lot of attention to

, And both Huawei and Samsung are present, even if-and which were two of the year's outstanding developments.

In any case, here is what most of the eyeballs in every month of the year:

has forced A leak to merge Facebook reveal plans to, the behind-the-scenes-tech-messaging via WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. The expense was reported that a pet project of chief executive Mark Zuckerberg .

He later justified The Move , saying it makes it send easier for the user, set between them. In addition, he said, it would also help The Firm to expand its end-to-end encryption, which help secure the messages.

Many observers have noted, however, that action would also make it more difficult to disassemble Parts of the organization And as the year went on, became a growing threat, with The First Senator Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic presidential candidates, Facebook has too much power and influence suggest.

But it can't could, with a change of management for Mr. Zuckerberg's ambitious goals be foiled. The Wall Street Journal, prevent, recently, that the apps are integrated.

Social Media , the mainstream news and even The Police all in a tizzy about Momo for No Good reason, in February. It has been claimed that young people's Social Media accounts have been "hacked", to the bulging-eyed monsters would be in addition to "challenges" that your life is in danger.

Online followed article, the combination of More Than 100 teenagers' deaths in Russia to the sensation. Except, of course, there was no evidence for any of this.

This was not the First Time a picture of the Japanese bird woman sculpture went viral. There is a similar smaller scare had, in the year 2018, when the "game" already cases of death in South America and India - in turn, without documented proof.

critics have described it as an exception, it has done.

switches These days, a search for "Momo" on Twitter ads for masks, The Ghoul , but little else.

And TikTok the hashtag #momochallenge surfaces videos of people cooking and eating small dumplings, which go by the same name in Parts of Asia.

Facebook's family of apps is experiencing 14 hours of interruption, in what was billed as the "most serious failure" for the date.

In many cases, users were unable to access the services over time. And it took to give The Company about a further 10 hours, the a "server-was all-change clear configuration" is to blame.

, which allows The refuse had proposals that they were hacked, while remaining appropriately vague about the actual cause.

Cyber security experts are desperately after a study showed that The Most popular online password is "123456".

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre, the statement came with A Warning that The String of digits is not guessed to make, but would be one of The First code tested by automated hacking tools.

The Public is advised to register instead and use a password manager. But the effort will have to copy and paste it in Each Time encouraged ID the introduction of biometric tests, which automate The Process , if the user passed in, a face, eye or fingerprint check.

< p > a Further alternative, The Heavy lifting is on a different platform and you can do it. And in September, Apple in The Party if it allows users, mirroring earlier efforts by Google, Facebook and Twitter.

When WhatsApp confirmed that a vulnerability in its app had exploited to install monitoring software on the victims ' phones, one of the direct questions, was how widespread The Attack is.

It took until October for clarification, at which point Facebook has said that it is believed. She added that they contain "at least 100 Human Rights defenders, journalists, and other members of civil society," in at least 20 countries.

The tech company claims, Nso Group , an Israeli private security company, is responsible for and is currently being sued in the US courts. Thus, The Claim denies and said it will "vigorously fight" the case.

whatever the outcome, the highlighted matter is that, if an attacker can load spyware can be on a target mobile phone or other device, the end-to-end encryption and other security-related measures In Vain .

Brooklyn-based Desmond "Etika" Amofah had a great online, thanks to its quick wit and a Nintendo video game reaction videos on YouTube and Twitch. But in mid-June, he is worrying if he released a clip in which he discussed the suicide. Days later, the New York City Police Department confirmed that he had killed himself.

Several of his friends and colleagues have done since steps, to memorialise him. An online store of goods sold, branded with his logo, and donates its profits to The National Alliance on Mental Illness. To increase the YouTuber PewDiePie also along with actor Jack Black , more funds for The Charity in Etika name.

"Other" have marked The Tragedy . A more active Twitter account was created - was, to his memory keep alive. And last month, a large wall image of the face was unveiled in Brooklyn with the gamer's in addition to a few Nintendo-Switch-Controller.

recently, YouTube faced with complaints that the references to the late Creator in its Rewind year-in-review. "No One should be surprised that YouTube always understand that his platform," released a frustrated user.

In any case, Etika, The Claim in his last video, that "this world is gonna forget me" shows no sign of true any time soon.

are marked If you have a Mental Health Problem, help and support available. for more information on the support services.

More technical problems at Facebook HQ prevents the user able to load new photos and videos to the apps, and in some cases prevented, existing not can be found. The disturbance lasted about nine hours.

Facebook is never really The Cause explained, beyond saying it had been triggered was due to a maintenance.

Other minor glitches, persisted throughout the year, including temporary power outages in the United States on Thanksgiving.

But as it is now, in at least one of its services, once a month, it is a remarkable engineering and performance, everything is ticking along.

studies show that mobile devices from Apple equivalent to the Android. So, when Google revealed that hackers booby-trapped-use sites previously unknown vulnerabilities in iOS, which it was, potentially, have an impact on "thousands of visitors per week", big news.

Google made it possible for the perpetrator to steal your private messages, photos and location-data in real-time.

for days there was speculation about who may have been exposed to. Apple says it is believed that less than a dozen sites focused on "the content of the Uighur community" were affected. Many took this to suggest that the Chinese government was involved. But Apple has not come explicitly to this conclusion itself, which was surprising given his loyalty to the country.

The Apple was only of the Uighurs-related controversies this year. The Campaign group sum of Us has always has a virtual private network (VPN) claims apps, made it more difficult for civil rights defenders, to discuss, to be sure, the allegations of abuses against the ethnic minority. The organization now wants to lift the thing at Apple's next annual General meeting.

The iPhone 11 series got more and more cameras, longer lasting batteries and a new "pro" designation for the top-of-the-range models. But there was no 5G - in spite of Samsung, Huawei, and other competitors started compatible smartphones already have. And whisper that Apple chief executive Tim Cook might be ready to turned out to reveal an Augmented Reality headset accessories, as unfounded.

market observers, particularly in the United States and Western Europe .

And there was talk of 2020 is now the year of the "iPhone super cycle" thanks to an anticipated new design, together with the introduction of 5G

Amazon is asking for a challenge of the price, that President Trump under pressure, The Department of Defense in the rejection of his application due to a personal vendetta against his boss, Jeff Bezos .

The app, but Ms Aziz was not convinced.

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Source of news: bbc.com