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Website revision #4 or #5? Lost track. I've had this site for 20+ years - here comes it's latest iteration!
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Technology
Monday – March 18, 2019
MySpace Lost All Uploads Between 2003 and 2015
Someday, this will happen to Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. Don’t trust the platforms to archive your data.
Categories Computers Interesting Technology
Friday – March 1, 2019
China Bans 23 Million From Buying Travel Tickets as Part of ‘Social Credit’ System
China blocked 23 million “discredited” travelers from buying plane or train tickets last year as part of the country’s controversial “social credit” …
Categories Dystopia Government Interesting Technology
Wednesday – February 13, 2019
Kremlin Behind Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Campaign As Measles Cases Explode
Russian trolls and social media bots used vaccines as a “wedge issue”, spreading pro- and anti-vaccine information. A new study examining the …
Categories Interesting Medicine Russia Technology
Tuesday – January 29, 2019
Everything New in Windows 10’s April 2019 Update
Windows 10’s next update is the April 2019 Update, which is version 1903 and was codenamed 19H1 during development. It features a …
Categories Computers Technology
How to Enable God Mode in Windows 10
God Mode doesn’t unlock any extra secret features in Windows or let you do any tweaking that you can’t do in the …
Categories Computers Technology Tutorials
Monday – January 28, 2019
None of These Faces Are Real
A Scanner Darkley is almost here.
Categories Computers Interesting Technology Unexpected
OneDrive / SharePoint Online To Become Default Save location for Office Files
It is never pleasant to lose Office files you’ve been working on for a long time due to software problems (or worse), …
Categories Computers Technology
Saturday – January 26, 2019
OneDrive File Sharing is Now Generally Available in Skype
Microsoft’s cross-platform Skype now lets you easily share files with OneDrive right from your conversations. This is thanks to a new Skype …
Categories Computers Technology
Cortana Integration with Microsoft To-Do Rolls Out to Everyone
Microsoft To-Do integration with Cortana has been in testing with Windows Insiders for weeks, but now its ready for everyone. Microsoft announced …
Categories Computers Technology
How China Plans to Grade 1.3 Billion People
China wants to grade its people based on how good or bad a citizen they have been. A dozen cities are already …
Categories Documentary Government Interesting Technology
Monday – January 14, 2019
Thursday – January 10, 2019
Baby Duck Syndrome – or – “Why You’re a Luddite”
So, in a nutshell, take the leap! Update from Windows Vista. In human–computer interaction, baby duck syndrome denotes the tendency for computer …
Categories Interesting Technology Thinking