Web Coolness: Fun new Android emoji, origami robots, and the new gaming system we can’t wait to get our hands on!
Here are some of the coolest tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do. New Android emoji from the new Oreo OS! The mermaid is killing us. Amazing solar eclipse photographs captured Monday. Ready for the next one? Bookmark the paths of...
Web coolness: Custom emoji are coming, moms defending screentime, incredible tech-created artwork and more.
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Hooray! Custom emoji are coming – and hopefully we’ll get to use of these feminist emojis too. (That PMS cramps emoji is kind of genius.) Free Apple...
Web coolness: Last minute tech gifts for Mom, the airline laptop ban, phishing hits the White House and more
Here are some tech links we’ve been reading around the web this week. Hope you like them too. CMP is an rstyle affiliate This is your weekend, mamas! We love this #mom tote from Amalia Lopez of Latte Design on Etsy. Maybe a little gift for yourself…?...
Big (real) news! Fake news gets easier to spot with the new Google Fact Check
It seems like an April Fool’s joke (and yes, I double checked the date on the post) but at long last, Google is taking moves to quash fake news with a new Fact Check feature in Google Search and Google News, worldwide. So basically, Google Fact Check is not...
Pocket: The Pinterest alternative to help save all those articles, recipes, tweets and more.
If you’ve become more of a news junkie over the past year like I have, you’ve probably realized that your standard browser bookmark bar isn’t necessarily your best best for saving articles you want to come back to. Let alone recipes you want to...
Web coolness: A texting umbrella, screen time tips from parents, Facebook changes its timeline. Again.
Here are some of the links we’ve been reading around the web this week. Hope you like them too. An umbrella made for texting in the rain? Sure, why not. A warning about what you share on Facebook Messenger. Another Facebook timeline change — this one you...
CINEMOOD brings family entertainment to your wall (or anywhere) in a really cool new way
I love family movie nights, especially on those rare occasions when it takes less than 15 minutes for the kids to agree on what we’re going to watch. So when I heard about a new wireless projector called CINEMOOD that lets you bring family movie night with you...
Let the StoryCorps app capture stories of your family’s history this holiday. The result is really beautiful.
When I’m driving around running errands, I usually have NPR on the radio, unless I’m listening to Spawned, of course. The stories that almost always end up with me in tears, searching for a Kleenex in the console, are the reports from StoryCorps which...
How to use new Twitter Moments: Could it make Twitter a more quick and easy news source?
Notice a little lightning bolt icon at the top of your Twitter feed? No, it’s not a Halloween month tribute to Harry Potter. In an attempt to lure some new folks back to Twitter — evidently 316mm monthly users isn’t enough for some investors —...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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