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Health

Google search will now show you which local doctors accept Medicare

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

Keep your online accounts safe by logging out today

By David Nield

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Technology

Twitter’s new policy aims to protect private individuals in photos

By Colleen Hagerty

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Technology

An undersea cable could bring speedy internet to Antarctica

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

You can now make your own stickers right in WhatsApp

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

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Technology

Twitter’s fledgling misinformation tool is adding aliases

By Charlotte Hu

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Health

Polite warnings are surprisingly good at reducing hate speech on social media

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

How to score Twitter’s coveted blue checkmark

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

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Technology

Twitter’s changing up the way you see tweets

By Colleen Hagerty

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Technology

A beginner’s guide to how cryptocurrencies work

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

Why YouTube is hiding dislikes on videos

By Charlotte Hu

The US is making its biggest investment in broadband internet ever
Technology

The US is making its biggest investment in broadband internet ever

By Shira Feder

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Technology

Facebook is making a big change in how it serves ads

By Charlotte Hu

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Health

As more people work from home, internet speed requirements have become a critical issue

By Stan Horaczek

The government won’t protect your internet privacy, so here’s how to do it yourself
Technology

The government won’t protect your internet privacy, so here’s how to do it yourself

By Kelsey D. Atherton

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DIY

Better internet could be a simple router upgrade away

By David Nield

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Technology

What the heck is WiFi 6E?

By Stan Horaczek

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Technology

Facebook archived more than a billion user faces. Now it’s deleting them.

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

Anyone can add links to Instagram Stories now. Here’s how.

By John Kennedy

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Technology

Facebook changes its name as it pushes toward a digital reality future

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

How to ask Google to remove images of kids from its search results

By John Kennedy

US dollars determine stablecoin value
Technology

Do stablecoins live up to their name?

By Stephen McKean/The Conversation

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Science

Verizon wants to use Amazon satellites to bring broadband to rural areas

By Colleen Hagerty

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Health

Can I offer you a nice meme in these trying times?

By Charlotte Hu

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem
Technology

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

By Shira Feder

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Technology

Facebook might rebrand as a ‘metaverse’ company. What does that even mean?

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

Google’s new data guidance takes a page from Apple’s privacy playbook

By Colleen Hagerty

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DIY

6 apps to get you started on crypto

By David Nield

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Technology

Congress is coming for big tech—here’s how and why

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

You can now force someone to unfollow you on Twitter. Here’s how.

By John Kennedy

The Facebook whistleblower’s Congressional hearing was a ‘big tobacco moment’ for tech
Technology

The Facebook whistleblower’s Congressional hearing was a ‘big tobacco moment’ for tech

By Colleen Hagerty

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Technology

Facebook has an explanation for its massive Monday outage

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

What we know about why Facebook went down

By Charlotte Hu

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Health

YouTube is blocking big anti-vax accounts, and other COVID news you missed

By Margo Milanowski

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Technology

Facebook users can now mix Messenger and Instagram friends in group chats

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

Criticism has pushed ‘Instagram Kids’ back to the drawing board

By Colleen Hagerty

PayPal app on phone
Technology

PayPal will now pay you interest, and offer other bank-like features

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

Slack’s new video tool is @here—and you might already be able to use it

By Colleen Hagerty

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Technology

Cryptocurrency scammers are mining dating sites for victims

By Colleen Hagerty

Taara's internet towers in Kenya.
Technology

Beams of light—not cables—are carrying the internet across a river in the Congo

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

Bitcoin is having a bumpy rollout as an official currency in El Salvador

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

The FCC wants to know if you’re paying too much for internet access

By Colleen Hagerty

What exactly is a digital dollar, and how would it work?
Technology

What exactly is a digital dollar, and how would it work?

By Charlotte Hu

A woman using an Apple Macbook laptop while another woman watches from nearby.
DIY

How to cover your tracks while you’re browsing the web

By David Nield

Twitter’s efforts to tackle misleading tweets just made them thrive elsewhere
Technology

Twitter’s efforts to tackle misleading tweets just made them thrive elsewhere

By Charlotte Hu

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Health

The human bone trade is legal—and booming on Instagram

By Riley Black

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Health

Social media really is making us more morally outraged

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

Instagram now lets you manage ‘sensitive content.’ Here’s how to use it.

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

Custom vibrations and other ways to shake up your smartphone messages

By David Nield

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Technology

The world uses one emoji more than all others. Here’s why.

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

How to ignore people on social media without blocking or unfollowing them

By David Nield

Colorful spools of fiber optic glass.
Technology

An inside look at how fiber optic glass is made

By Stan Horaczek

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DIY

How to watch foreign TV at home

By David Nield

Google Is Bringing Free, High-Speed Wi-Fi Internet To India’s Train Stations
Technology

Google Is Bringing Free, High-Speed Wi-Fi Internet To India’s Train Stations

By Xavier Harding

Your guide to YouTube Premium, Google One, and all the other stuff Google just renamed
Technology

Your guide to YouTube Premium, Google One, and all the other stuff Google just renamed

By Stan Horaczek

Here’s what to expect when you try out the new Gmail
Technology

Here’s what to expect when you try out the new Gmail

By Stan Horaczek

Here’s why you’ve been getting so many privacy policy and terms of service updates lately
Technology

Here’s why you’ve been getting so many privacy policy and terms of service updates lately

By Stan Horaczek

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Technology

The .su Boom

By John Mahoney

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Technology

Renewable energy can’t cure Bitcoin’s environmental woes

By Nikita Amir

Why the new FTC chair is causing such a stir
Technology

Why the new FTC chair is causing such a stir

By Rob Verger

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Technology

Apple Removes The Gun Emoji, Replaces It With A Squirt Gun

By Carl Franzen

Signal
Technology

Why you should switch to an encrypted messaging app like Signal

By Stan Horaczek

A person using Facebook on a laptop while sitting in front of a table with books on it.
DIY

How to keep your Facebook account safe and secure

By David Nield

Buying MGM may only be the beginning of Amazon’s content dominance
Technology

Buying MGM may only be the beginning of Amazon’s content dominance

By Rob Verger

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