Monthly Archives: May 2016

29 05, 2016

This is what it’s like to grow up in the age of likes, lols and longing

By |2016-05-29T08:53:11-04:00May 29th, 2016|Technology|0 Comments

“I don’t feel like a child anymore” she says. “I’m not doing anything childish. At the end of sixth grade” — when all her friends got phones and downloaded Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter — “I just stopped doing everything I normally did. Playing games at recess, playing with toys, all of it, done.” This article probably should have been titled "How Technology is Stealing Our Kids Childhoods"

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28 05, 2016

Facebook Wants to Help Sell Every Ad on the Web – WSJ

By |2016-05-28T10:40:05-04:00May 28th, 2016|Facebook, Social Media|0 Comments

There is no escaping Facebook’s advertising reach. The social network has announced that it will now be foisting ads on to every single person who uses third-party sites that are signed up to its advertising scheme, regardless of whether the user has a Facebook account or not.

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19 05, 2016

How images can be lifted from screens and turned into pornography  | Daily Mail Online

By |2018-02-05T10:57:50-04:00May 19th, 2016|Internet Security|0 Comments

These so-called ‘revenge porn’ sites house images of now-spurned former partners who once voluntarily posed in private with someone they thought they could trust. Some images are lifted from social media sites and manipulated on-screen to turn them into pornography. Others are stolen using sophisticated spyware, which can switch on and then control cameras on a victim’s computer or ‘smart’ TV

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16 05, 2016

The sad reason many people love their Apple Watch – CNET

By |2016-05-16T09:24:47-04:00May 16th, 2016|Apple, Technology|0 Comments

People sit in meetings with laptops in front of them and talk over the top of them. They go to dinner, place their phones on the table and pick them up at least every five minutes to see whether something vital has happened in the (ir) world. Does the Apple Watch really make it better? Or will it finally destroy any concept we have of eye contact?

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14 05, 2016

New Kevin James Comedy ‘Kevin Can Wait’ Set To Film On Long Island

By |2016-05-14T12:51:19-04:00May 14th, 2016|Long Island, The Blog|0 Comments

Long Island native, Kevin James, is returning home in this CBS Television Studios and Sony Television sitcom, “Kevin Can Wait.” The show is set to be filmed at Gold Coast Studios in Bethpage. The comedy will be Long Island’s first live studio audience sitcom.

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12 05, 2016

Facebook news selection is in hands of editors not algorithms, documents show | The Guardian

By |2016-10-06T21:30:29-04:00May 12th, 2016|Facebook, Social Media|0 Comments

Exclusive: Leaked internal guidelines show human intervention at almost every stage of its news operation, akin to a traditional media organization. The guidelines are sure to bolster arguments that Facebook has made discriminatory editorial decisions against rightwing media. Conservatives would label the majority of Facebook’s primary sources as liberal.

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3 05, 2016

The Trump Coloring Book, “Let’s Make Coloring Great Again!”

By |2016-05-03T20:01:20-04:00May 3rd, 2016|The Blog|0 Comments

“Let’s Make Coloring Great Again!” Whether he’s crossing the Delaware or playing chess with Putin, see Donald Trump like you’ve never seen him before! You can buy this online ;)

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1 05, 2016

Mint.com says they can Share my Personal Information with Anyone. Goodbye Mint.com.

By |2018-02-03T08:21:45-04:00May 1st, 2016|Finance, Internet Security|0 Comments

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to share or disclose your personal information with law enforcement, government officials, and other regulatory agencies. We may share or make available anonymous or aggregate information that cannot by used to identify you with: 3rd parties for research, marketing and promotional purposes and those 3rd parties may publicly report the findings of their research or analysis;

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