5 Places to Look for Your Digital Footprint TechNewsDaily, mashable.com Recently, many iPhone and iPad users were incensed to learn that Siri — the personal digital assistant for iOS devices — has an eerily long memory. Unbeknownst to Apple customers, Siri sends all your queries directly to Apple’s company’s servers,… http://flip.it/hKkfD Related articles 5 Places … Continue reading Your digital footprint
Act Now Or, When You Die, Your Secret Love Letters Will Belong To Google BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com Gmail’s recent policy changes that let you designate someone to control your account after you’re gone is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the confusing issues around who can access your online life once … Continue reading Gmail now allows you to designate trustee after you die
How You Get Hacked at Starbucks Samantha Murphy, mashable.com For those who frequently use the free public Wi-Fi in coffee shops such as Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts, you’re likely already aware of how easy it is for hackers to steal your personal and financial information over the shared networkBut what you… http://flip.it/d1AjC Related articles Dunkin' … Continue reading How you get hacked at Starbucks
Vermont gets a gigabit network. And it only costs residents $35 a month Stacey Higginbotham, gigaom.com The telephone company that provided the copper service that in 1923 allowed Calvin Coolidge to be sworn in as United States President, at Plymouth Notch in Vermont, is trading its storied copper for fiber. VTel, a telephone compa… Vermont … Continue reading Vermont leverages Fed funds to build gigabyte network costing only $35 a month
Suzanne Lucas, inc.com EVIL HR LADY How you pay your employees is governed by federal law. Violating it is easy, so be careful. Dear Evil HR Lady, If an exempt employee had to go to the doctor and missed an hour to three hours of work, can an… The Employment Law You Are Probably Breaking … Continue reading The Employment Law You Are Probably Breaking
Bracelet For Human Rights Workers Sends Kidnapping Alerts to Facebook, Twitter By Francie Diep, popsci.com When activated, the device sends “Help!” messages social media accounts and nearby aid workers. Activists and aid workers who document government abuses or monitor elections often risk abduction by those who oppose their work. Now one… RT @PopSci: Bracelet for … Continue reading A bracelet that sends kidnapping alerts for human rights workers
Sequencing The Genome Of Legal Documents To Make Them Readable BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com Unless you’re a lawyer, you probably don’t understand a lot of the agreements and contracts you sign. But Docracy hopes to even the playing field by letting you easily see which parts of a document are standard and where you might … Continue reading Docracy: sequencing the genome of legal documents
How Can I Save All My Work Emails for a Personal Backup? Melanie Pinola, lifehacker.com Dear Lifehacker, I’m leaving my job and want to take my work emails with me. I’ve been burned at jobs before, and it became very useful to have an email paper trail behind me. How can I save all the … Continue reading Saving your work email
What to Do After You’ve Been Hacked Mat Honan, wired.com Whether you were hacked, phished, had malware installed or just don’t know what the heck happened but there’s somebody all up in your e-mail, here are a few good first steps to take following an incident. This is by no … Mat Honan What to … Continue reading What to do if you are hacked
The Companies and Countries Losing Their Data Our Editors, hbr.org With China hacking the US, the US hacking China, and LinkedIn and Facebook and credit card companies and Google and who knows who else all vomiting our data all over the web, I was intrigued when a new report on data loss ran across my … Continue reading Industries that lose the most data
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The State of The Guardian’s SOTU Infographic Is…Dumber By Emily Elert, popsci.com This chart tells you that “the linguistic standard of the presidential address has declined” over time. The problem is, it’s wrong. Yesterday, as a run-up to Obama’s State of the Union address, The Guardian published an interactive… RT @PopSci: Cool infographic about the … Continue reading Linguistic data science analysis of state if the union address
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