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How To Keep Your “Hey Google” History Off The Record

Home assistants such as Alexa and Google Assistant are becoming ubiquitous, and as that happens, more and more users are discovering how much of their data is actually being collected by these handy items. The Washington Post’s Geoffrey A. Fowler was so taken aback by the amount of audio material that Amazon collected that he actually made a song out of his clips.   If all this makes you uneasy, […]

todayMay 14, 2019

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Amazon’s Echo Dot for Kids is Not So Worry-Free

Children’s data privacy advocates filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday morning, calling for the federal agency to investigate the “Kids Edition” of Amazon’s Echo Dot smart speaker.  The 96 page complaint was co-authored by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), and co-signed by 17 other digital privacy and children’s rights organizations.   “Amazon markets Echo Dot Kids as […]

todayMay 13, 2019

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New Chrome Extension Promises to “fix” Gmail

The co-creator of Google’s beloved-yet-discontinued Inbox app, and former lead designer for Gmail, has released a new Chrome extension that considerably simplifies Gmail’s web interface.  Michael Leggett, who was Gmail’s design lead between 2008 and 2012, released the Simplify Gmail extension on April 2nd — the day after Gmail’s 15th anniversary which was also the day Inbox was discontinued. Leggett left Google in 2015.   The extension makes numerous small […]

todayMay 3, 2019

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What the Heck is Going On with Samsung’s Galaxy Fold?

What in the world is going on over at Samsung in the wake of the Galaxy Fold delay?  The whole situation keeps refusing to normalize, and instead gets weirder nearly every day. The latest is that iFixit has decided to honor a Samsung request to pull its Galaxy Fold teardown off the internet, even though Samsung apparently didn’t ask iFixit to do so directly.   This oddity follows AT&T’s seemingly […]

todayMay 2, 2019

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Caffeine Gives Solar Cells an Energy Boost

What started out as a joke over morning coffee among colleagues has turned into a real breakthrough in solar technology. Scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Solargiga Energy in China have discovered that caffeine can help make a promising alternative to traditional solar cells more efficient at converting light to electricity. Their research, published April 25 in the journal Joule, may enable this cost-effective renewable energy […]

todayMay 1, 2019

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Spoiler Alert! How to Avoid GOT and Endgame Spoilers

The internet is full of spoilers, making it a dangerous place to hang around if you’re trying to steer clear of what happens in Avengers: Endgame, Game of Thrones, or any other TV shows, movies, or video games that you’re still catching up on. Even when you think you’ve got things under control, Google’s autocomplete feature has spoiled things before. And URL’s can contain spoilers, too. In addition, trolls can […]

todayApril 30, 2019

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How to Unsubscribe from Unroll.me

By now it’s safe to assume that almost every free internet service that provides some kind of utility isn’t really “free,” and that the price you pay, if it’s not in the form of an actual withdrawal from your bank account, is in the currency of your personal data. Unroll.me, which scans people’s inboxes for marketing emails and newsletters and offers to unsubscribe them in big batches, fits this bill: […]

todayApril 25, 2019

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How To Print from a Chromebook

Even digital cloud-dwellers occasionally need paper.  While Google’s Chromebooks are all about online services, sometimes you need a good old fashioned printout to accompany your digital adventures.  Printing from a Chromebook has gotten a lot easier over the years, but it still isn’t always obvious how to get started or which paths to embrace. Follow this guide, and you’ll be churning out paper from your cloud-centric computer in no time. […]

todayApril 24, 2019

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Bulk Unsubscribing Tools to Help Unclutter Your Inbox

Like a home in real life, cleaning up isn’t always fun and easy, but if you put in a little elbow grease it may be worth the peace of mind of a clutter-free inbox.   If you have multiple emails across providers like Gmail and Microsoft Outlook, it may be easier to use services that help you unsubscribe to emails than to do each sender individually. Free apps like Unroll.me […]

todayApril 23, 2019

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