The U.K. is aflutter with talk that smartphones might be the reason Britons are having 20 percent less sex than they did a decade ago. The research isn’t as tidy as all that — the 20 percent part is sound, the smartphone part is largely a guess. But then, I’ll [Keep reading]
A small but sizable minority of employers in the most conservative regions of the country use online search tools to screen out job applicants based on religion, a practice that is likely illegal, according to a study published Wednesday by Carnegie Mellon University. The study also found no evidence of [Keep reading]
Angry about that $3,500 “fine” levied against a woman who wrote a negative review against a company? You should really be angry at America’s credit bureaus. Here’s why. You probably saw the story last week about a couple that was hit with a $3,500 “fine” for writing a negative review about [Keep reading]
Home Depot’s Twitter timeline was full of what seemed like endless apologies on Thursday afternoon after the firm tweeted a picture that it now calls a “dumb tweet,” and others are calling racist. “We are deeply sorry for the dumb tweet and have deleted it,” the firm Tweeted dozens of [Keep reading]
Dealing with the death of a parent is sad and complicated enough without having to deal with bills from a student loan servicer. But as Axton Betz-Hamilton helped her widowed father deal with the death of her mom Pamela, she found herself lost in red tape trying to beat back [Keep reading]
Hey website builders – stop stealing my expensive bandwidth! Video autoplay is a terrible idea (I’m looking at you, ESPN.com). And according to AdWeek, it might be coming to your Facebook walls. Auto-play video a terrible user experience. It’s annoying. It bothers co-workers. It feels a little like a hacker [Keep reading]
Feel like you’ve lost control of your identity and personal information? The “Reclaim Your Name” initiative aims to win control back for you. Reclaim Your Name is the brainchild of FTC Commissioner Julie Brill, who ventured into the belly of the Beast on Monday — AdAge.com — to make a case [Keep reading]
If you want to know what some folks in the federal government think of your privacy, just look at that smiley face. If you want to know what stands between your personal life becoming public — well, it’s that smiley face. And when future generations scream at us because we [Keep reading]
When Boeing builds an airplane, several parts are constructed separately — the engines, the fuselage, the landing gear. While these parts go through manufacturers’ testing, when they are finally assembled into a completed aircraft, Boeing flies the thing to make sure it’s airworthy. (Airbus does this too) It sure sounds [Keep reading]
Apple is messing with Lawrence Lessig’s ability to comment online, and I’m guessing that’s not going to end well. “Is talking about legal rights the new porn?” he wrote on his blog. As they say, them’s fighting words. “When did it become inappropriate to inform people about legally protected rights [Keep reading]
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