Another thing that’s proven wildly popular at virtual events? Online gaming. ReedPop, the company that puts on NYCC, also produces the PAX video game conventions. This year, those conventions morphed into PAX Online, which streamed on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook Live, and other platforms. The event also had a very active Discord server, something that could […]
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The other day, I was sitting on a park bench at the playground with my son, agonizing over a work issue. Had I come off as rude on that Zoom call? Maybe I shouldn’t have been so emphatic. I pulled out my phone to send a quick apology. Just then, a notification popped on my
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Google published a guide with tips to help creators create more compelling Web Stories. The goal of the tips is to encourage publishers with ideas of how to create better Web Stories. Web Stories Content Format Web Stories is a form of content meant to be consumed as snackable content for users who are typically
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Connecting every possible device in our lives to the internet has always represented a security risk. But that risk is far more pronounced when it involves a smartwatch strapped to your child’s wrist. Now, even after years of warnings about the security failings of many of those devices, one group of researchers has shown that
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Tricksy! You’ll notice the knowledge box on the righthand side, too. But Google has around 92 percent of global search marketshare. It effectively is online search. Dark patterns are all too common online in general, and January wasn’t the first time people accused Google of deploying them. In June of 2018, a blistering report from
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Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, the US’ testing strategy has failed over and over again to provide an accurate picture of how fast and how far the disease is spreading. State and city officials are often left flying blind, not knowing how bad things are until hospital beds start filling up. The evidence
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Executives at Facebook are reportedly considering the option of a “kill switch” that would turn off all political advertising in the wake of a disputed presidential election. Put more simply: Executives at Facebook are reportedly admitting they were wrong. As recently as mid-August, Facebook leaders were on a press junket touting the site’s new Voting
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2. Set up Google My Business With your first raft of citations ticking over nicely in the background, it’s time to move on to the meat of local SEO, your client’s Google My Business (GMB) listing. While there’s plenty you can do to improve performance and continually optimize GMB over time (such as testing categories,
“In my view, hydroxychloroquine should not be used in the hospital setting,” says Martin Landray, a physician and researcher in the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Population Health and one of the heads of Recovery. “Outside the hospital setting it would be reasonable to use it in the context of a randomized controlled trial,
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In January, Detroit police arrested and charged 42-year-old Robert Williams with stealing $4,000 in watches from a retail store 15 months earlier. Taken away in handcuffs in front of his two children, Williams was sent to an interrogation room where police presented him with their evidence: Facial recognition software matched his driver’s license photo with
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