Internet
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Honoring my daughter's 'last' request in the age of digital media
Mar 04, 2016 10:00 pm - While I was driving my thirty-something daughter to her surgery the other day, she looked at me with her jaw firmly set and her eyes displaying a fierce intensity and sa...
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These occupations get the most right swipes on Tinder
Mar 04, 2016 10:00 pm - Tinder is built around the profile photo. You make snap judgments - aka left or right swipes - about someone based on their cute, kooky or creepy snapshots. But since th...
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How Stolen - that app for 'buying' people - is trying to find redemption
Feb 27, 2016 6:38 am - Few stories at the intersection of startups, harassment and media attention seem to have happy endings. Siqi Chen is optimistic that his new app, Famous!, might be one o...
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App reviews: Serial Reader, Twist
Feb 27, 2016 6:37 am - Trying to knock some classic books off your bucket list? Try Serial Reader, an app that delivers literature to your phone in daily snippets that you can read in 20 minut...
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A quick, no-nonsense guide to using Facebook's new Reactions
Feb 27, 2016 6:33 am - Facebook has just rolled out its much-anticipated "reactions." But what Facebook has not rolled out - and really, can't roll out - are usage norms to go along with them....
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How Bernie Sanders became the lord of Internet memes
Feb 27, 2016 12:00 am - Bernie Sanders may not be winning with baby boomers, and he may not be winning with minorities. But the 74-year-old senator has locked up one vote: the producers and ped...
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Review: 'Fuller House' may please fans (but no one else)
Feb 22, 2016 10:00 pm - NEW YORK - If you like this kind of thing, odds are you'll want to cancel weekend plans and binge on "Fuller House." Meanwhile, everyone else is strenuously cautioned ag...
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Adidas hopes you'll pay $600-a-year for a workout clothes subscription
Feb 21, 2016 6:35 am - Whatever your shopping preferences, it seems these days that there's a subscription box to cater to them. Birchbox, which peddles a monthly box of curated beauty samples...
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The secret double meanings of emoji
Feb 20, 2016 6:38 am - Recently, some engineers at the visual tech firm Curalate set out to make a tool that could automatically caption Instagrams with emoji. It was a chance to mess around w...
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New apps to find a date - or dump one
Feb 20, 2016 6:32 am - Dating apps can be as plentiful and puzzling as Tinder profiles. Here's some help weeding through the offerings, courtesy of The Washington Post's Solo-ish blog: Happen ...