Category: Tech
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Facebook Study: New Name, Old Violations
Facebook Study is a new (Android-only) way for Facebook to worm its way into your phone.
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Google Kills Its Tablets (Again)
In a move that would make the Black Knight proud, Google axes another division but is not dead yet!
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News Consumption: One-Off vs. Subscription
You have a choice in online news consumption: one-off OR subscriptions. Here’s why subscriptions are the way to go.
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Another One Bites The Dust: Nest is Dead
Google’s Nest announcement at I/O 2019 created a lot of confusion. Here’s what it means going forward.
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Forget Floods and Earthquakes – Ransomware Takes Out Cities
The newest danger for cities isn’t natural disasters, it’s outdated software.
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Browser Notifications Bugging You? Here’s How To Turn Them Off
It seems like every website wants to send you notifications or know your location. Turn these off quickly and easily!
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Facebook: Dumb or Evil?
There’s been lots of pretty negative news coming out of Facebook over the past few years. I’ve only touched on a couple of things (smartphone privacy, social engineering), but it’s looking more and more like Facebook is either grossly incompetant or a bad actor when it comes to respecting their customers information and privacy. The…
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(New) Trust Issues With Google
I have been a Google fan for quite a few years. And while some of their business practices give me pause, I have more trust in Google than similar data-centric companies like Facebook. My fondness for Google has been tempered over the past couple of years by a series of unfortunate events, though. Things like:…
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WinRAR Vulnerability Leaves Millions of Users at Risk
If you’ve been a computer user for any length of time, you’ve run across compressed files. In the old days, you’d have to download a separate program to be able to deal with these compressed files, at least on Windows. Thankfully, current versions of Windows now come with the ability to handle compressed archives. There…
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Why You (Yes, You) Need A Website
One question I get fairly often these days is about the need for a website, especially with the explosion of social and professional media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Soundcloud. My response is usually pretty simple: Maybe more than ever, if you don’t have a website now, you need one! While having social media profiles and…