How to Get an Abortion in the Age of Surveillance If you’re a person looking to get an abortion in this country and you’re getting a consultation in a clinician’s office complete with pee cups, stethoscopes, and people in unflattering scrubs, then that clinician is legally bound by HIPAA toContinue Reading
While negotiating a $44 billion arrangement to procure Twitter, Elon Musk let financiers know that he would focus on cutting the organization’s bottom line. As reported by Bloomberg Musk talked about cutting both costs and jobs for the social network. In calls with bankers before the deal was reported, Musk answeredContinue Reading
Reportedly Microsoft is exploring creating an ad program that would allow brands to advertise in free-to-play Xbox games. Sources familiar with the matter told Business Insider that one potential way these ads could display is as digital billboards in car racing games. Something that if true is sort of amazing.Continue Reading
“As part of our ongoing commitment to support creators, we’re beginning to test several new tools that will enable creators to experiment with different ways to monetize what they’re building in Horizon Worlds. While we’re launching this today as a test with a handful of creators to get their feedback,Continue Reading
YouTube Started As A Video Dating Site The founders (Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim) registered the domain name on Valentine’s Day. They weren’t sure of the direction they wanted to take the site, but gave it the tagline “Tune In Hook Up.”, because of the date. According to CNET,Continue Reading
Since people are asking what the blue star on tinder means, we’re answering. Tinder has two features that use a blue star. Super Likes and Verified Profiles. We’re using Tinder’s official press images to illustrate, so we don’t out anyone’s matches. What Is The Tinder Blue Star: Super Like OnContinue Reading
A recent post on Internet News Flash explored how badly many of Google’s own properties fail to meet Google’s standard of mobile-friendliness. One tool that wasn’t used in that post is the Mobile-Friendly Test tool in Google Search Console. The reason we didn’t use that tool, even knowing we could share theContinue Reading
Via The Intercept “The internal email, obtained by The Intercept, was sent by management at a firm that translates corporate texts and app interfaces for Google and other clients. The email passed along instructions from Google with the new wording. The instructions also noted that the word “war” should continueContinue Reading
After my old website (domain name really) was lost, and turned into a health blog I started looking for new solutions for a personal home page. And while I could turn this into a discussion about backing things up if you want to get them back, that’s old hat atContinue Reading
Google has spent years making user signaling a factor in search ranking. Each update of the search engine’s algorithm, starting with using links (bibliometrics) as a signal in the first version of Google, has made human behavior a ranking factor. Now, speed and interaction with the search results are becomingContinue Reading