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Health & Wellness

Cheap Alternative to the Gym: Find Your Tribe

Exercise is critical to looking and feeling good, but the high cost of getting in shape is often a barrier for those on a tight budget. In fact, a 2018 Dare to Be Free survey from Freeletics, a fitness app, found that 28 percent of participants said they would exercise more if they could find cheaper alternatives to the gym.   Here's the good news: You can exercise for FREE […]

todayJuly 25, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Silicon Valley Ends it Run with Sixth Season

HBO’s biting tech industry satire Silicon Valley is coming to an end with its sixth season slated to air later this year, according to Variety. The show follows the borderline absurd struggles and occasional successes of a group of startup employees trying to maneuver the world of tech, secure funding, and beat out rival products from the giant, soulless corporations trying to crush them. It’s aired since April of 2014, […]

todayJune 4, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Twitter Fights Vaccine Misinformation With New Search Tool

If you search for tweets related to vaccines this week, the first thing you see on Twitter is a post from the United States Department of Health and Human Services pointing you to reliable health information instead of anti-vax misinformation.   Last week, Twitter announced that it would be launching a new tool in search that would prompt users to head to vaccines.org, which is run by officials at HHS. […]

todayMay 30, 2019

Health & Wellness

Twitter Fights Vaccine Misinformation

If you search for tweets related to vaccines this week, the first thing you see on Twitter is a post from the United States Department of Health and Human Services pointing you to reliable health information instead of anti-vax misinformation.   Last week, Twitter announced that it would be launching a new tool in search that would prompt users to head to vaccines.org, which is run by officials at HHS. […]

todayMay 30, 2019

Tech Made Simple

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

Tech Made Simple

Facebook Imposes Strict Checks on Political Ads

Political campaigners and candidates running Facebook ads about the upcoming European elections will need to undergo strict checks for the first time as part of the social network's efforts to combat foreign interference. The social media giant will ask anyone running ads relating to the European Parliament elections in May to provide documentary evidence of their identity and location. They will need to be "authorized in their country" to run […]

todayApril 5, 2019

Food & Drink

What do the World’s Wealthiest People Eat for Breakfast?

People sometimes forget that billionaires are human just like us. Just because they make a substantial amount of money doesn’t change the fact that they need to eat, you know,  just like the rest of us. However, with the world at their fingertips, what do these billionaires choose to eat on a daily basis? Do they go through a drive-thru or hire a personal chef?  Here’s the scoop on what […]

todayApril 4, 2019

Tech Made Simple

How To Turn Off Autoplay Videos on Social Media

You’ve probably been caught off guard by videos that play automatically on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram - in fact, just across the internet in general. They begin playing as soon as you load a page or (if they’re more deviously implemented) when you start scrolling through a page to catch your attention.  Whether you just want to put an end to autoplay videos on social media platforms, or are looking […]

todayMarch 22, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Snopes Breaks Up with Facebook

Snopes, a fact-checking organization, announced on Friday its decision to end its partnership with Facebook, which has been ramping its efforts to curb misinformation on its services since the 2016 U.S. election.   Facebook and Snopes had been working together since December 2016 to fact check content on the social network, reportedly paying the debunking giant as much as $100,000 for the work in 2017 alone.  Snopes issued a statement […]

todayFebruary 5, 2019

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