Kids sometimes lie about their age online. Many do it because they want access to platforms or age-restricted content for the sheer thrill of engaging in what they perceive as “grown-up” activities. Others are driven by peer pressure and FOMO.
And, as any parent will tell you, it’s incredibly tough to control online activity. But that’s not the real problem.
When children misrepresent their age online, they expose themselves to inappro
When a food truck called Theo’s Gyros pulls up outside a neighborhood pub in Seattle, customers now notice what’s missing: They no longer hear the hum of a generator while they eat at a table nearby.
When Netflix released The Most Hated Man on the Internet, we got an up-close glimpse of the harm that nefarious people can do by exposing the personal information of others online. The series illustrated how Hunter Moore used stolen or hacked images to populate a pornographic website, targeting women who did not consent for their images to be used—and introducing many people to the concept of “doxing.”
Derived from 1990s hacker culture, doxing is a play on the w
I’ll let you in on a little secret: Google’s apps and services are absolutely overflowing with buried treasures.
More than any other tech company, Google loves tucking interesting options and features into out-of-the-way places. Some of the best elements of Gmail, Google Calendar, and other popular productivity tools are almost completely out of sight, in fact, and all too easy to overlook if you don’t know where to find ’em.
Once you have a roa
In October 2020, as it became clear COVID-19 wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon, Dropbox made a big bet. Rather than continuing with a temporary remote-work policy and postponing longer-term decisions, the company declared it was going virtual-first. Henceforth, employees could work from anywhere and—with some coordination of collaboration hours—on their own schedules. The company argued that doing so wouldn’t hinder its ability to build products and run its busine
The successful splash landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River. The raid to capture and kill Osama bin Laden. The identification of Muammar Gaddafi. The Bataclan terror attacks. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014—and once more in 2022. When a major world event has happened in the past 15 years, Twitter has been there to help present on-the-ground information and contextualize what you’re seeing with world experts on hand, ready to explain what everything me
In the transition from desktop software to cloud-based apps, Deta founder and CEO Mustafa Abdelhai believes that something went wrong.
While web apps such as Google Docs, Trello, and Miro let you manage documents and notes from anywhere, they don’t always play nicely together. Moving data between them can be a hassle, and it’s hard to view everything in one place. Your digital life can feel messy as a result.
With a new service called Space OS, Berlin-based D
Caroline Ellison, Samuel Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend and the ex-CEO of the hedge fund he owned, testified Tuesday in the federal fraud trial against the former head of FTX. Here are some key takeaways from her testimony:
Ellison said she was directed by Bankman-Fried to use customer funds
With her hair worn in loose waves parted in the middle, round wire-frame glasses, and a tomato-soup-colored dress and a gray blazer, Ellison looked comfortable
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Little things around my office are surprisingly crucial to my productivity. Here’s why: When work is tricky, I’m distractible. I’ll take whatever help I can get to stay on track. The following objects are my unsung workday heroes.
Ticktime Cube
I set timers for one, 3, 5, or 10 minutes
There’s a new generation of hackers in town. Brought up with digital currency, skilled at social engineering, and aided by online resources their predecessors could only dream of, young internet raiders—some still teenagers—are finding creative ways to rob some of the world’s largest firms and making off with eye-popping sums.
Since late last year, more than 100 organizations, from Comcast to Clorox to Grubhub, have been targeted by a hacking group known