Tag: Tech
Did You Delete Your Social Media In 2022? Was It Worth It? Tell Us About It.
The average person spends 147 minutes, or 2.45 hours, on social media per day — that’s up two minutes from 2021. Which might not be so great: Studies show that social media can increase negative self-image, depression, anxiety, and feelings of loneliness. And then there are privacy concerns and the…
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Here’s The Best Thing To Post On Instagram Notes
On Tuesday, Instagram launched a new feature called Notes. It lives in the Message section of Instagram and allows people to post a sort of status update, kind of like a Story, but text-only. It’s a lot like the old AIM away messages: You can only post one Note at…
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“I Can’t Let Him Win Now”: The Student Behind The Banned Twitter Account That Tracked Elon Musk’s Private Jet Vowed To Fight On
The “commotion” Sweeney was referring to was his tweets in which he claimed that @ElonJet had been suppressed by Twitter’s moderation system as of Dec. 2. Sweeney posted a screenshot allegedly showing Ella Erwin, Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety, asking that team members “apply heavy VF [visibility filtering]…
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Your iPhone And iPad Have An Awesome New Security Feature. Here’s Why You Need To Turn It On Now.
On Tuesday, Apple launched iOS16.2, a new version of the software that runs your iPhone and iPad. One of the most important features in the update is a tiny switch that makes data that you back up in iCloud a lot more secure. The new feature, which Apple calls Advanced…
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A Tech Worker Is Selling A Children’s Book He Made Using AI. Professional Illustrators Are Pissed.
Ammaar Reshi, 28, has been fascinated by technology since he was a child. “I was always curious, and my dad let me play with his computer when I was 5 years old,” he said. He grew up in Pakistan before his family moved to the UK, where Reshi studied computer…
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Elon Musk Is Not The Richest Person Alive Anymore
Elon Musk is no longer the richest person in the world, after the stock price of Tesla, one of the companies he heads, tumbled on Monday. The new richest person is Bernard Arnault, CEO of the luxury fashion conglomerate LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton, Dior, Tiffany, Moët, and more. According…
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