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How advocating social consciousness freaks people out!! Two weeks ago, people were tweeting pictures of razors submerged at the bottom of their toilet bowls. No, this wasn’t a wacky teen challenge to make your dad late for work. It was a protest against Gillette’s latest advertisement — one that confrontsContinue Reading

At age 11, I dreamed of being an editor at a major magazine. I even put together my first publication, Teen Scene Magazine, using colored construction paper, yarn, and in-depth feature interviews with … my dad. Flash forward to today. I’ve swapped my colored construction paper and yarn for PowerPointContinue Reading

Watch any commercial break in full, it seems, and you’re almost guaranteed to see an ad for some sort of voice assistant device. In the past two months alone, Amazon, Facebook, and Google have all announced the release of either new or new versions of their own video smart speakers: voice-assistant-enabled devicesContinue Reading

For all of the greatness that the internet affords — cute animal videos, GIFs, and interesting blogs — one of its biggest downsides is how distracting it can be. How many times have you sat down to work and been pulled into a pit of procrastination? Perhaps you get absorbedContinue Reading

Every once in a while, I’ll meet people who at once give me hope for the future and make me wonder what the heck I’ve done with my life. (I mean that, of course, in the most positive way possible.) Yesterday, I had a the privilege of meeting two suchContinue Reading

Bayer greedily bought and swallowed the ‘poison pill’ of Monsanto without considering its true liability. Fifty-seven billion Euros of market cap down the drain later, now their headache is taking on epic proportions… There was serious doubt among the people involved about whether San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Ramos BolanosContinue Reading

Mark Steele, a 5G awareness campaigner, has been highlighting the dangers of a secret 5G rollout by Gateshead Council where residents are complaining of increased illness and Cancer in the affected area. There’s enough evidence to conclude the new smart 5G arrays on the top of new LED lampposts emitContinue Reading

Facebook today announced that three independent studies have found that the company’s efforts to fight the spread of false news on its site might be working. The three studies — conducted respectively by New York University and Stanford University researchers, the University of Michigan, and French fact-checking organization Les Décodeurs —Continue Reading

Cryptocurrencies do not pose a threat to global financial stability, but the diverse range of national regulatory regimes throughout the world continues to complicate efforts to establish an international legislative framework overseeing their use, the Financial Stability Board says in a new report.  Also Read: Billion-Dollar Startups Flourishing in Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’ ReportContinue Reading