“Stand up comedy seems to be so easy: you just enter the stage and start joking. There are no bullet point lists, no screens, no pauses – just the comedian speaking on and on, entertaining the audience. Now it suddenly seems less easy, right? Well, the reality is stand up comedy is not easy at…
Mobile apps have always been a bit of a mixed bag. There’s a lot of promise for having the right information at your fingertips when you need it, but the reality hasn’t always been that seamless. A few weeks ago, I had one of those experiences where my phone was providing me useful information, in…
““People are more willing to share an article than read it. This is typical of modern information consumption,” said the study’s co-author Arnaud Legout in a statement. “People form an opinion based on a summary, or a summary of summaries, without making the effort to go deeper.”” I didn’t need a study, I already noticed…
As detailed in a series of tweets, someone posing as Mckesson called Verizon Friday morning. Armed with the last four digits of his Social Security number, the attacker was able to change the registered SIM on Mckesson’s account to one they controlled, redirecting all calls and texts. Two factor authorization is a great way to…
The social network this week expanded its suicide-prevention tools to all languages supported by Facebook. Initially launched in the US in late 2011 in partnership with Forefront, Lifeline, and Save.org, the initiative offers support to users experiencing self-injury or suicidal thoughts—as well as their family and friends. “Now, with the help of these new tools,…
I think it’s important, in the midst of various websites desperate attempts at gaining traffic by scaring us all about how technology is misused and bad for us, to be reminded that technology also does a lot of good.