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Google Search Introduces ‘Perspectives’ Filter for More Personal and Human-Centric Results

Google Search is introducing a new feature called “Perspectives”, a specific filter designed to bring you information sourced from individuals on forums and social media platforms. This innovative tool appears on qualifying search queries that could be enriched by the experiences and insights of others, supplementing the existing array of tabs including Images, Maps, and various topic-based filters.

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“The Human Side of Tech: Exploring How People Shape Technology”

Technology has been evolving at a breakneck pace over the past few decades, and it’s interesting to consider how the human brain has shaped this evolution. Technology and the brain share several common features and characteristics in many ways, and by exploring these similarities, we can gain a deeper understanding of both.

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A Brief Discourse on Discord

Ah, Discord. The platform that has taken the online gaming world by storm. But what exactly is it, and why should you care? Let’s take a dive into the basics of Discord, shall we? First and foremost, Discord is a communication platform. It allows people to chat, voice chat, and…

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How to Reduce Spam Email: Remove Your Personal Information from the Internet at Places Like Crunchbase, Zoominfo, & Apollo.io

The best spam email blocker is not getting spammed in the first place. Here’s how to prevent spam email (or at least reduce the amount of spam you are getting) by removing your personal information from the Internet. You may already know this, but here in the United States, where the privacy laws are so lax, it’s perfectly legal for a company to scrape all of your contact information and then sell access to it. ZoomInfo, Spokeo, Crunchbase, Apollo.io, and RocketReach all do this, as do many others. And removing your data from those databases can help to reduce the amount of spam email that you receive. We’re going to tell you how to remove yourself from these top 5 sites, and then we’re going to tell you about a service that will remove you from all the sites (more than 500 of them), if you want to go in that direction.

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The Metaverse — Part 2: Imagining a Modern Metaverse

We’re imagining the evolution of the internet which will eventually be called the metaverse. What does metaverse entail? The metaverse concept is a tech-industry wide vision to create a tangible internet. Imagine a web of interconnected virtual spaces that will, in theory, operate much like spaces in the conventional world. In order to transform the internet as it is now into a more tangible space that we can interact with and experience in the same ways that we do real life. To create the metaverse, each of these interactive spaces need to be universally accessible.

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The Metaverse — a series in and of itself

If you’ve never found yourself hanging around the horned-rim glasses wearing literary fans or the all in black art crowd, you may not be familiar with the word “meta” and it’s many uses. Its origin story, like many others, takes place in ancient greek mythology. Meta was the first wife of the Athenian king, Aegeus. The word itself, Meta, is derived from μετά, meta, meaning “beyond” or “after”. Meta was the equivalent to the Latin “post-” or “ad-”. However, the contemporary version of Meta is not very old; meta appeared for the first time in 1988. Despite its age, Meta, has many definitions, all of which make it an uncanny name for the future of technology… or rather, of all things.

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The Internet, Is It Good or Bad For Democracy?

The Internet has given people a lot of space and many platforms to express their opinions on local, national, and international issues. Using the Internet, citizens can easily email their elected leaders including the president to air their concerns and get feedback.

Entire Areas of the Internet Knocked Offline by Enom Following "Routine Maintenance"
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Entire Areas of the Internet Knocked Offline by Enom Following “Routine Maintenance”

An Internet outage which has been caused by a DNS issue at domain and DNS provider Enom is affecting business and people across the country. So if you are having trouble getting on the Internet, or getting to a website or other destination on the Internet, it’s quite possibly because of the massive DNS failure at Internet provider Enom. Enom is, among other things, a domain provider (much like GoDaddy, with whom more people may be familiar), which means that they also provide DNS (domain name service) for those domains.

Hackers Target WHO Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Internet Crime Gang Stealing Reward Points and Gift Cards Out of Email Inboxes

Talk about cherry picking! An international Internet crime gang is gaining access to as many as 100,000 compromised email inboxes a day, and all they are doing is searching for and stealing digital gift cards and rewards points.

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No, the SpiderMan 3 Trailer Did NOT Break the Web or the Internet

Some version of “Spider Man breaks web” is all over the news today. “Spider-Man breaks the web,” said ABC. “Fans Break the Internet After ‘Spider-Man 3’ Trailer Leaks” says Inside the Magic. “No Way Home breaks the web with the official trailer,” says Celeb Mix. “Marvel Breaks the Internet with Release of Spider-Man,” says Epic Stream; and “Spider-Man breaks the web” echoes Yahoo News.

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Your Digital Trail: Can Your Online Past Haunt You?

Have you ever paused to think about what you tweet or post online and how it might affect your life in the future? if you are like most people, you hardly worry about your online activities as long as you have secured your personal information to prevent data leaking. After…

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How the Like Button Has Changed Us and How the Internet Works

On the 9th of February 2009, Facebook announced it was launching a new feature: The Like button. During its launch, Leah Pearlman, co-creator of the Like button before moving on to start Dharma Comics wrote “Your friends, and their photos, notes, statuses and more are what make Facebook great. When…

Is The Internet Changing Our Brains?
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Is The Internet Changing Our Brains?

The Internet has been around for less than half a century. However, it has impacted every aspect of our lives including how we interact and source information. The Internet has pervaded our lives so much that you can hardly avoid it whether at home or at work. Since the online…

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How to Know If You Are Interacting With a Bot

It is no secret that messaging platforms have a bot problem. While some of these programs will tell you upfront that you are interacting with a chatbot, others will try to fool you into thinking you are talking with a fellow human being. While bots have become highly popular in…

Is It Possible to Delete Yourself From The Internet?
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Is It Possible to Delete Yourself From The Internet?

In our interconnected world, almost everyone knows something about everyone else. So, if you want to find out what a particular celeb was wearing, what places they frequent, or any of their recent scandals, a basic search online is likely to get the desired results. Easy-peasy, right? Welcome to the…