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Why Is It So Hard For Facebook To Remove False Covid Information?
What should the social media companies do with false information?Two years ago YouTube had a surge of videos encouraging teenagers to eat Tide Pods because they are secretly candy. Black salve, a caustic black paste that eats through flesh, was enthusiastically...
NEW PRODUCT OVERLOAD
The post-holiday lull has ended, Vista is out the door, so we're back to a nonstop barrage of new products and services. Here's what stood out in the last week.Adobe will offer a...
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME – BE CAREFUL!
Daylight Saving Time will start on March 11, three weeks earlier than usual, and it will end on November 4, 1 week later than usual. This causes some interesting problems for...
HIDEOUS ONECARE BUG
Here's a tale that will send a chill down your spine, about one of the worst software bugs I've ever run into. This is truly hideous, confidence shattering stuff.The buggy...
VISTA COMPATIBILITY
The PC industry is in a state of flux as hardware and software developers wrestle with Vista. The security improvements in Vista go deep into the system and the developers are...
SECOND THOUGHTS ON SECOND LIFE
Second Life looked like it was poised to be the Next Big Thing when the media gave it blanket coverage a few months ago. (I got caught up in the hype and wrote a description of...
CLASSICAL MUSIC HOAX
The classical music world is in an uproar over the discovery that most or all of the recordings by acclaimed pianist Joyce Hatto are copies of recordings by other artists, either...
DELETING ONECARE BACKUP FILES
Windows Live OneCare makes it simple to back up your files to an external hard drive. The new version of OneCare allows backups to be updated automatically, every day or every...
MICROSOFT WINDOWS HOME SERVER BETA 2
Here's a review of a beta release of Microsoft Windows Home Server, which continues to look like a genuinely exciting advance for home computing. Here are my earlier thoughts on...
BLU-RAY & HD-DVD SECURITY BROKEN
High definition DVDs have always had two, and only two, purposes: to impose significant new barriers to your free use of the content on them by adding new layers of DRM; and to...
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY
Happy Valentine's Day! Stuck for a gift? I'm sure a lot of you depend on Thinkgeek.com for your last minute holiday shopping, so you'll be relieved to know that Thinkgeek is all...
VISTA & SHADOW COPY
Windows Vista Business edition has one of those features that you might not need right away - but if you ever do need it, it will be a lifesaver.Vista Business (and Vista...
VIDEO MAY OVERWHELM INTERNET
Google is running more than 450,000 servers around the world. It's building "Project 02," which will be one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, to be housed at a data...
WINDOWS VISTA BUSINESS
Strange but true: it is not easy to purchase a new computer with Windows Vista Business installed on it. It's virtually impossible to find Vista Business on any computer sold in...
NEW IMAGE FORMAT – HD PHOTO
The .JPG format is ubiquitous - everything supports it, everything displays it. Microsoft has spent six years creating a new format intended to replace .JPG in the hearts and...
WALMART, APPLE & DRM
WalMart announced a movie download service with the obligatory noncritical media coverage, focused on how darned exciting it is that all of the major studios have signed up to...