Rosa Mendoza tried her best to make sure her children kept up with their math lessons during the prolonged school closures. She hung a white board in the kitchen of their East Dallas apartment so she could work out problems alongside her 10-year-old daughter. To help her son, a first-grader […]
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Trump’s Parting Gift To Biden: An Even Worse Catastrophe In Yemen
Video credit: Skye Fitzgerald, director, Spin Film As one of its final foreign policy acts in office, the Trump administration could take a step that would push millions of people in Yemen into starvation and prolong that country’s civil war. And President-elect Joe Biden would find it extremely difficult to […]
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Microsoft is mad as hell. This may make it worse
More fuel for Redmond’s fiery plea for trust? You’ve probably had one or two thoughts about politics lately. It’s that time of year. The light begins to disappear, both outside your door and inside the eyes of tired, nonsense-peddling politicians. Perhaps this is what led Microsoft to fully express its […]
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Google’s search results have gotten worse
Googling didn’t used to require so much … scrolling. On some searches, it’s like Where’s Waldo but for information. Without us even realizing it, the Internet’s most-used website has been getting worse. On too many queries, Google is more interested in making search lucrative than a better product for us. […]
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How Twitter Made the Hunter Biden Laptop Story Even Worse
Hunter and Joe Biden in 2016 (AP Photo/Visar Kryezir) How has Twitter messed things up this badly? It has been over four years since emails hacked from the servers of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta were leaked online, before being amplified on social media […]
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Wi-Fi woes are even worse during coronavirus pandemic, and only some of us can do anything about it
Slow, spotty, stuttering Wi-Fi is the worst. I know because I spent the last month trying to work from my parents’ house outside of Kenai, Alaska. If it was sunny, and I turned their router off and on, stood on one foot in the highest point of the southeast corner […]