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2 years agoExpression Apolatia
How Bitcoin Tracers Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site
Welcome to Video’s customers thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity.
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2 years agoCurrent Event Apolatia
U.S. life expectancy falls for 2nd year in a row
The pandemic drove U.S. life expectancy down again in 2021 even though life-saving vaccines were widely available.
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3 years agoComment Apolatia
Some people just ruin all the fun dont they.
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3 years agoCurrent Event Apolatia
Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer
A team of cold case investigators say they have finally identified the Zodiac Killer, one of America's most prolific serial murderers who terrorized San Francisco in the late 1960s.
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3 years agoComment Apolatia
There goes my childhood! I remember plenty of shareware 100mb overnight downloads.
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4 years agoCurrent Event Apolatia
SXSW cancels its 400K-person conference due to coronavirus
SXSW has officially announced it will cancel its tech and music conference slated for March 13th to 22nd in Austin, TX due to concerns around coronavirus, though it’s exploring rescheduling.
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4 years agoCurrent Event Apolatia
Twitter to introduce ability to stop people replying to tweets
Measure is aimed at preventing antisocial behaviour and improving quality of discussion
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4 years agoExpression Apolatia
The origin of the world’s first travel blog
Twenty-five years ago, an intrepid traveller circumnavigated the globe with a battery-powered laptop, and forever changed how the world travels.
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4 years agoExpression Apolatia
Goodbye to the Influencer Decade, and Thanks for Nothing
Ten years ago, an unknown photo-sharing app called Instagram launched – and with it came a whole new breed of internet star.
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4 years agoCurrent Event Apolatia
WordPress introduces a new way for bloggers to get paid
Anyone with a paid WordPress blog or a blog that uses jetpack.com are eligible to use it
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5 years agoExpression Apolatia
Happy 25th year, blogging. You’ve grown up, but social media is still having a brawl
The blogosphere remains a valuable source of information and insight
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5 years agoCurrent Event Apolatia
Facebook to Officially Start Hiding Like Counts on Posts
Users can see who liked a post but not the total amount of likes a post has received. Only the author of the post will be able to see the total count.
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5 years agoExpression Apolatia
The best way of dealing with online trolls? Ignore them – and starve them of oxygen
As Countdown’s human calculator has shown with her Twitter abusers, blocking them – and not engaging – is a better way of dealing with them
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5 years agoExpression Apolatia
Here’s what we know so far about the upcoming Facebook News tab
Facebook's News Tab is supposed to launch this fall; the company will pay some news publishers to syndicate their headlines and article previews.