Web coolness: A digital swear jar, the Twitter password breach, and tech Mother’s Day gifts!
Here are some of our favorite links from around the web. We hope you love them too! Turns out Siri can swear. Plus, the swear jar goes digital! (top) Pokemon designers finally come clean about the inspiration behind Pikachu. We love this cooking app for kids....
If you’re a Twitter user, you must update your password STAT. That’s 330 million of you.
As Twitter has just informed all 330,000,000 of its users in an apologetic but so far underreported post, you should really change your Twitter password right now, this very second. Not to be alarmist — but out of an abundance of precaution. Evidently, a bug...
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: 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...
Twitter tricks: The smart accessibility features you never knew about.
Thanks to Twitter user Red Long, who describes himself as blind in his bio, I found a terrific tip to use a feature in your Twitter accessibility features to help your visually impaired readers. However in digging deeper, turns out there are a whole bunch of really...
Web coolness: A big week for social media changes that you’ll want to know about (and lots more)
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Art in the age of Instagram. [Photo above] Twitter is making some big changes, and so is Instagram. Social media is collecting much more data on you than you think....
New study about kids’ online behavior might surprise you, parents. And not in a good way.
A recent survey of more than 1600 U.K. kids revealed some fascinating results when it comes to kids’ online behavior, leading the UK’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) to make some pretty strong recommendations for parents....
Got internet trolls? Troll Cakes kill them with sweetness.
I can’t stop laughing at this concept: It’s called Troll Cakes and yes, it’s real. The premise is that you send Brooklyn baker Kat Thek any hateful message you’ve received — Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat — and they will...
Web Coolness: Star Wars Origami, the Nokia 3310 is back?, and where to stream the Oscar-nominated Best Picture films
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. This Japanese artist Tadashi Mori shares the coolest origami tutorials. Star Wars, anyone? (via TadashiOrigami on Instagram) This monk is spreading Buddhist...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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