Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, April 2nd 2018. Today is Apple replacing Intel's chips? Is Grinder leaking users HIV status? Cloud Flair wants to protect

your browsing history? Zuckerberg gives a longer interview,

Macron talks AI, a profile of Amazon's headquarters search, and how many TV viewers are going over the top.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

With the never ending news drip about privacy issues, accounts getting hacked, advertisers

and publishers seemingly knowing everything about what we do online.

Cloud Flair over the weekend announced a new product that couldn't have been better timed.

In case you're not familiar, Cloud Flair is a CDN or content delivery network that helps

route traffic on the internet and delivers web pages to load faster.

On April 1st, Cloud Flair announced 1.1.1.1.1.

A new Consumer DNS service that promises to actually speed up your internet connection,

but also to keep it private at the same time.

Cloudflare says that this will be, quote, the Internet's fastest privacy first consumer

DNS service. This new service not only promises to hide you from those

ads that follow you around the web just because you searched for something once

three weeks ago, it will also crucially hide your browsing history from the

prying eyes of your internet service provider who by nature of how the web is

structured knows every site you visit. Here's how Wired explains it, quote,

whenever you visit a website using its domain name, like Wired.com,

software on your phone or computer looks up the domain using what is called a DNS Resolver.

The DNS Resolver typically run by your broadband provider translates the domain name into a number called an IP address that your device can use to actually

find the site you're looking for." End quote. So a VPN or a virtual private network, like the one Cloudflare is touting

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