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The tbh app is popular with teenagers. This probably explains why I had not heard of it before TechCrunch reported that Facebook had acquired tbh. According to TechCrunch, tbh has had 5 million downloads and 2.5 million daily active users in the past nine weeks. The letters tbh stand for “to be honest”. It was first launched on August 3,
You can now set your Teens up with and Account at Amazon and control the purchasing process. I would think most parents already do this as I demand cash before approval of my teens purchase. Purchasing without getting pre-approval at my house has serious consenqences. Such is the digital world we live in. Ohh confession I had to do some
The smart home marketplace is growing rapidly at the moment with new entrants on an almost daily basis. The original "one-trick ponies" like Hue, Nest, Hive and Ring are expanding their single USP feature into a portfolio of smart devices, and well-known electronics companies like Belkin and Panasonic are setting up shop too. Most of these big names sell their own branded
Flattr was designed to help people sustainably fund the content that they love. It lets people reward their favorite creators, and it gives creators an easy way to make money from their work. Flattr will launch a new version on October 24, 2017. The Flattr button is history. It is being replaced with a privacy-friendly algorithm. Instead of clicking a
Niantic announced that it is holding a Pokémon GO AR Photo Contest. The contest is extremely easy to enter and involves taking an AR photo of any Pokémon that is in a “real-world” environment. There are prizes associated with this contest. The AR photo contest started on October 11, 2017, and will end on October 25, 2017. Starting today, we're
Equifax Loss of Public trust is complete today with another security concern, along with loosing their IRS contract. You know when the IRS cancels it's a big big deal. I get you all caught up on what has been going on since the last show. Not a lot I can share but i promise it's all good. Burning the candle
The Overwatch Halloween Terror 2017 event started on October 10, 2017, and will end on November 1, 2017. Some pieces of the event had been leaked prior to its start day. Blizzard Entertainment now has a page full of official information about it. For the next three weeks, we're celebrating the spookiest time of the year with a seasonal event.
After a very long wait, Roku are bringing two new models to the UK market with the Roku Express and Roku Streaming Stick+. While North America fans have enjoyed new models for over a year, the UK has lagged behind with long-standing Roku 2 and 3 models: owners of 4K TVs have had to look elsewhere for their ultra high
Laptops are data gold mines that criminals love to target. Due to my regular travel schedule, I have always put the majority of my media on external secure drives. I have used just about everything in the book when it comes to encryption and many of those tools are painful to use and often slow. For many years I carried
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has added a bunch of fun, Halloween related, things to the game. The event is called “Willard Wyler's Halloween Scream” and it will last until November 1, 2017. A press release states that this community event will allow players to acquire all-new Halloween-themed loot, to participate in XP-boosting events, to play through a new zombies mode
Perhaps I'm just old and suspicious, but I'm increasingly concerned about the personal information that I give away to companies like Google and Facebook for their services. I've had enough of being the product. As for the information gathered surreptitiously by third parties, such as ISPs and government agencies, I've had enough of snooping and I don't accept that if I've
AOL has announced that it will be discontinuing AIM effective December 15, 2017. In a post titled “One Last Away Message”, VP of Communications Product at Oath, Michael Albers, revealed the sad news. The reason for discontinuing AIM is because they way in which we communicate with each other has profoundly changed. If you were a 90s kid, chances are
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