Web coolness: How to use Alexa to donate to charity, the latest Twitter war, and how to customize your phone’s app icons
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. A fun look at past video conferencing concepts. You’ve heard of red light cameras, now prepare for cameras that capture drivers using their cellphones. A very cool...
Web coolness: Facebook is monitoring your conversations, data breaches you need to know about, and more!
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them too. Think you really know about virtual reality? Here’s some advice on this impressive technology from a trusted source. [photo via] Pokemon Go is celebrating Earth...
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This is a sponsored message from WEYV If you’ve got a separate music app, magazine app, audiobook app, they can certainly add up. Especially when you’re talking about media for a whole family. So instead of of flipping through multiple apps and paying...
Web coolness: What video game was popular when you were born, Star Wars Easter eggs, and #DeleteFacebook
Here are some of our favorite tech links from the web this week. We hope you enjoy them too. This is the most popular video game the year you were born. Does this seem like a good idea? Hooray! Lyft is supporting Black Girls Code! Some people are quitting Facebook...
Should you quit Facebook? We’ve got the resources you need to decide.
After this recent Facebook data-mining scandal, we know that many users are feeling conflicted about staying on the platform. And we’re seeing various articles and reports, from whether you should leave altogether to why you should stay on. Talk about confusing!...
Web coolness: A free girls’ coding camp, the dangers of Facebook quizzes, and Mr. Rogers on Twitch.
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Hooray for this girls’ summer coding camp, run by Karlie Kloss, which will sponsor 1000 girls in 50 camps across 25 cities. Are you aware of the real dangers...
Web coolness: The new kids FitBit, a Darth Vader tea kettle (what?), and more!
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. We’ve got to get our hands on this Darth Vader tea kettle! Here are some shows about Stephen Hawking that can help kids understand how Hawking’s...
Web coolness: Violent video games don’t create violent kids, Best Buy spies for the FBI, and more.
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. There’s so much talk about violent video games (again), but the research is in: science shows violent video games do not cause kids to be violent. Worth a...
Web coolness: The banana phone is back, Alexa lost her voice, and new emojis to be excited about
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Remember the “banana phone” from The Matrix? It’s back! We wish it weren’t true, but women do suffer more harassment than men online. But...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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