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What Did People Use Before Google to Search the Web?
The year is 1997. You’re wearing whatever people wore back then — some kind of jean jacket, I’m guessing — and talking to your friend about your new favourite movie, the recently-released Mike Myers vehicle Austin Powers. You’re quoting the movie, and your friend thinks this is hilarious. Then things take a dark turn. “I…
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Airbnb Agrees to Rat Out Its Hosts Like NYC Wants It To
Airbnb has finally decided to settle it long-running lawsuit with regulators in New York City. The short-stay rental platform has agreed to hand over personal data about its hosts — like their phone numbers and email addresses, along with a full list of every home they’re putting on the platform — in order to help…
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Holding The World’s Breath At 11,135 Feet
MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, HAWAII”There are just a few moments from my past that, having left an indelible mark on my life, I can now return to in an instant. My first dance at my wedding to “I Only Have Eyes for You.” The phone call I received, as I dressed to go to work, telling…
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Hackers Can Access Your Mobile And Laptop Cameras And Record You – Cover Them Up Now
Whether you use Zoom, Skype or Microsoft Teams, the webcam on your home PC or laptop device has probably never been as active as it is during this pandemic.