May 18, 2016

2016 will forever be known as the Year Donald Trump Won

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President Trump's victory in American politics brought on a slew of memes and acronyms  from MAGA to ITMFA .  Film at 11.
April 18, 2016

I Am the White on the Flag

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Watching the opening scene of the movie Sahara, where the Confederate army is making a run for it and stealing coins of gold, helped me real...
January 10, 2015

From Sunrise to Sunset, Thank You

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Dear Friends of NetLingo, As part of ongoing improvements, I am sunsetting the NetLingo blog because I've decided to add these insightf...
January 5, 2015

Hello HoloLens: Virtual New Reality for the Real New Year

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Microsoft could be about to turn the promise of virtual reality into, well, a reality, said Farhad Manjoo in The New York Times . The comp...
December 15, 2014

Goodbye Google Glass

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“Google Glass is finally dead,” said Will Oremus in Slate.com. This week, Google suspended sales of the “semifunctional and socially contr...
December 1, 2014

I’m a sucker for the conveniences of modern digital life, but...

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A guest post from my favorite magazine The Week . Like most Americans, I’m a sucker for the conveniences of modern digital life. I bank on m...
November 17, 2014

Google Glass may not be inevitable after all

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A guest post from my favorite editor William Falk of The Week. In these grim times, there is some hope for our species: Google Glass may no...
November 10, 2014

Drones: Google’s sky-high ambitions

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Google is spreading its wings, said Alexis C. Madrigal in The Atlantic . The tech giant unveiled a drone delivery project called Project Wi...
November 3, 2014

As governments invade privacy, tools for encryption grow more popular

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In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA collecting massive amounts of user meta-data, many people went in search of safer,...
October 27, 2014

Facebook ready to spend billions to bring whole world online

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Facebook is prepared to spend billions of dollars to reach its goal of bringing the Internet to everyone on the planet, Chief Executive Mark...
October 20, 2014

California passes law mandating smartphone kill switch

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Smartphones sold in California will soon be required to have a kill switch that lets users remotely lock them and wipe them of data in the ...
October 13, 2014

Goodbye To MSN Messenger, An Aughties Relic

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Call it the Gchat effect. MSN Messenger, the ubiquitous instant messaging platform of the early aughties, is no more. After 15 years of fac...
September 29, 2014

People like Emojis, I prefer Emoticons :-)

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Hieroglyphics are making an unlikely 21st century comeback, and it's all thanks to millennials ' insatiable appetite for texting. Y...
September 15, 2014

Apple and Home Depot Tread Lightly on Hacking Attacks

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Don’t blame us. That’s what Apple is saying in a very carefully worded statement about the hacking of nude photos of celebrities. “None of t...
September 8, 2014

Could Wearable Tech Like Google Glass Play a Role in Connected Education?

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Guest post by: Online-PhD-Programs.org
September 1, 2014

Searching for better selfies

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The world needs more selfie-friendly smartphones, said Molly Wood in The New York Times . For whatever reason, smartphone-makers haven’t “g...
August 25, 2014

Apps: Why you should be wary of health trackers

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The use of fitness apps “has exploded in recent years,” but you aren't the only one keeping an eye on the data. The use of apps that...
August 11, 2014

3 Good Reasons Why You Need to Like RATS

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Of course no one likes actual rats, but since we have social-media-savvy tweens and teens, we do need to Recognize Acronyms and Text S...
August 4, 2014

Cybersecurity: The vulnerability of online media

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The Syrian Electronic Army struck us last year, said Matt Buchanan in NewYorker.com. If you were on Twitter or NYTimes.com, you may well h...
July 28, 2014

Encryption: Are there any secrets on the Web?

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The NSA has cracked common forms of encryption used not just by terrorists, but also by regular consumers and businesses. Is anything onl...