Internet
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The week ordinary users beat the InternetMar 07, 2015 6:00 am - Last week, the impossible happened. Then it happened a second time. Then it happened yet again. In the space of three breakneck days, the Internet saw three reforms that...
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Reddit's new privacy policy bans sharing nude images without consentMar 01, 2015 6:00 am - Reddit, the site that just last fall hosted a trove of stolen nude images of celebrities in its forums, banned “involuntary pornography” from its site on Tuesday in an u...
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Inside Tumblr's teen suicide epidemicMar 01, 2015 6:00 am - In the past two months, at least three transgender teenagers have committed or attempted suicide after scheduling suicide notes on the blog platform Tumblr. First Leelah...
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Tinder tested by Millennials who won't pay for dating appsFeb 28, 2015 6:41 am - Paul Eggler has three free dating apps on his smartphone and hasn't found a partner yet. Even so, the 28-year-old, who is pursuing a master's degree in computer science ...
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Love a man in uniform? Online dating scammers hope soFeb 28, 2015 6:32 am - WASHINGTON - All together now: All you need is love. Love is all you need. It seems like such a simple recommendation, and yet it can be awfully hard to find this essent...
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YouTube at 10: How an online video site ate the pop culture machineFeb 21, 2015 6:43 am - It's a fact easily forgotten, in light of all the fame and the folly that's followed. But before Justin Bieber was a tabloid fixture, a Calvin Klein model and a teen cul...
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Naperville might offer Craigslist buyers, sellers safe place to meetFeb 18, 2015 12:00 am - Naperville soon may create a "Craigslist safe zone" similar to those popping up at police stations across the nation as law enforcement agencies offer space and a watchf...
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'Bosch' another doleful detective, but this one just might have a caseFeb 16, 2015 5:00 am - Like all detectives of his literary ilk, Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch isn't easy to warm up to. Brought to life from the pages of Michael Connelly's crime novels ("City of B...
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The case of the Facebook page that posts the same thing every dayFeb 14, 2015 6:42 am - Once a day, every day since Aug. 21, some fan with a weird sense of humor has posted the exact same photo of Italian pop singer Toto Cutugno to Facebook. It's not a new ...
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Constable: Clowns, farmers among online Valentine's dating optionsFeb 10, 2015 4:30 am - The Daily Herald email filter quarantines the flirty message in my inbox before I even have a chance to explain things to my wife of almost 27 years. Literally clowning ...