Full Text of Dr. Rick Bright Whistleblower Complaint Against HHS in Coronavirus Handling
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Full Text of Dr. Rick Bright Whistleblower Complaint Against DHHS Over Coronavirus Handling and Pushing of Hydroxychloroquine

Full text of the whistleblower complaint by Dr. Rick Bright against DHHS for its handling of the COVID-19 epidemic and pushing of hydroxychloroquine.

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How to Turn Off Notifications for Facebook Likes and Other Reactions

Tired of getting Facebook notifications for everything under the sun? Here’s how to turn off notifications for Facebook Likes and other reactions (frowny faces, hearts, etc.).

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Insiders Urge Facebook and Apple to Fix Toxic, Intentionally Addictive Nature of Social Media and Devices

Investors and influencers of Facebook and Apple have openly challenged and beseeched the tech giants to acknowledge and address the damage being done to children, adults, and even the very social fabric of society by these companies ignoring, and even intentionally taking advantage of, the addictive nature of Facebook and other social media platforms, and how open to tampering they are, as well as the addictive nature of the iPhone and other electronic devices.

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How to Make Gmail Stop Threading Email Conversations (in Mobile Too)

Gmail automatically puts all of your email threads in “conversation view” mode, meaning that every reply and subsequent email with the same subject line will be stacked (threaded) under the original email in the thread. Here’s what you need to do to turn threading off and have Gmail display your email individually, in a list, rather than threaded in conversation mode, on your iOS or Android device as well as in the Gmail web interface.

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The Internet Patrol Voted Top Security Blog by Credit Donkey

We here at the Internet Patrol are thrilled to have been voted a “top security blog” by Credit Donkey, which, while focusing primarily on making personal finance “donkey-proof” (by which they mean fun and easy to understand), also covers the online security sector.

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Cell Phone Screen Cracked or Charging Port not Working? Tablet Speakers on the Fritz? Cell Savers to the Rescue!

If you are wondering where you can get your cracked or broken screen replaced, or water damage fixed, on your iPhone, iPad, Samsung or Google smart phone, or other mobile device, what if we told you that you can have it fixed right in your own home or office? That’s exactly what Cell Savers does: they come right to you and repair your broken mobile phone or tablet, all at a very reasonable price!

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How to (Essentially) Disable Google AMP in Google Search

If you are reading this article, it’s probably because you want to know how to disable Google AMP and turn AMP off for your Google searches. And you probably want to get rid of AMP because it’s annoying as hell, especially if you like to share links, and want to share the actual source link, not Google’s AMP link. The thing is, you can’t technically disable Google AMP, but you can get around it. So, here’s how to get rid of Google AMP.

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How to Turn Off All of Those Annoying ‘Words with Friends’ Sounds While Still Leaving On the Notification Alerts

How many times has it happened? You miss that it’s your move in Words with Friends because you’ve turned the sound off on your phone. So you turn it on, and instantly get annoyed all over again by all of those other Words with Friends sounds. You know the ones – the sounds that get made within the Words with Friends game every…single…move..you…make. Argh! Well, it’s actually really easy to turn off all of the game sounds in Words with Friends, while still being notified with a sound when it’s your move. Here’s how.

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How to Recover and Restore iTunes Music Purchases

We’ve written previously about how you can redownload your iTunes purchases, which is great if you don’t have that music on your current computer, smartphone, or other device. But what about if your purchased music files are on your computer drive or smartphone but have been damaged or otherwise corrupted? For example, a song always abruptly stops midway through playing, and iTunes won’t let you redownload the file? Here’s what to do.

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Updated to iOS 9.2 and Now Videos Make a Horrible Sound? Here’s What to Do

If you upgraded to iOS 9.2 and then your videos started having a horrible noise in them, well, you’re not alone. In fact, it happened to us when we did the update, and here is how we fixed it.

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iMessage Stopped Working? Not Forwarding to or Getting the Code on Your Macbook or iPad? Try This

If you find that iMessage is suddenly not working, and sending all messages as SMS text messages only, or if text message forwarding is no longer working on your iPhone and you are getting no code on your Mac or iPad to set it back up, try this.

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#TattooGate: Apple Watch Doesn’t Work with Tattoos (and the Work-around)

It turns out that the much awaited Apple Watch malfunctions and doesn’t work if you wear it with a tattoo! Being dubbed #TattooGate, one might be surprised at just how many folks sporting tattoos have also ordered Apple Watches. The inked are apparently a market segment that Apple failed to consider when designing the Apple Watch.

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Police Officers Launch Disinformation Campaign on Waze Traffic App

Police in Miami have launched a disinformation campaign by misreporting their own locations in the traffic app, Waze. The police say that this serves two important purposes: first, thwarting Waze’s cop-reporting function so as to not enable drivers who only drive safely when they think they would get caught driving recklessly, and second, to thwart “cop stalkers” who might otherwise show up where a police officer really is for whatever reason.

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Look Out for This Dangerous Apple ID Phishing Scam

A very real looking phishing scam has hit EA.com (the Electronic Arts games site) and Apple ID. Users should be extremely careful about any information that they submit while the problem is being investigated.

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You Changed Your Google Password and Now Your Phone, Tablet or Mail Program Doesn’t Work?

If you’ve recently changed your Google password, only to find that your new password is not working with your email program, iPhone, Android smartphone, or iPad or Android tablet, so that you can’t access Google services such as Gmail, here may be your problem.