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As we begin returning to offices, restaurants, and retail outlets, here’s a word of caution. No business should ever accept a COVID-19 vaccine card as proof that someone has been vaccinated. The online scams are rampant!
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Are you a master of disguise, or do you have a solid poker face? Think that you could fool artificial intelligence with your facial movements?
A group of social scientists created a game where the AI is designed to read your emotions through facial expressions. Tap or click here for a frightening example of how thieves are using AI to create ransomware threats.
Ever hear about a digital footprint? Well, unless you’re a survival camper in the woods, you have one. With most of us living our lives online through social media, you’d be horrified to find out how much the internet knows about you. Tap or click here to see everything Google knows about you with one search.
Remember those commercials from the ’90s with Yahoo that made you laugh and think Yahoo was ridiculous? You aren’t alone. Out of Yahoo came what was supposed to be a serious Q and A platform, Yahoo Answers.
Yahoo Answers was supposed to be a serious place to get answers to important questions like Quora. The internet didn’t see it that way. It turned more into a laugh, and the memes that came from it were fantastic. Tap or click here for Google search alternatives.
We can all use a little extra money during these trying times. You can start by unloading some unneeded clutter from your place. This is great if you’re working from home and not going anyplace during the day anyway.
Do you have a Chromebook in your arsenal of gadgets? If you don’t know, they are similar to a laptop but just a little bit different. Chromebooks run on Chrome OS, which was specifically built to be used with an internet connection.
Social media has become more important in our daily lives than any of us ever expected. We go to our Facebook page for everything from the news, to a look into our friend’s daily lives. Facebook algorithms study our online habits and adjust our news feeds to show us exactly what we want to read and buy. Tap or click here for Facebook settings to change ASAP.
Every business, whether big or small, has a digital component today. You have to complete payroll, issue invoices to customers and keep track of your services. All of these items need to be stored somewhere to keep records.
An old phone scam is making a serious comeback. It happens in the middle of the night and your smartphone rings just once. You wake up and your heart is pounding because calls in the dead of night usually mean bad news. You grab your phone and see a number from the African nation of Mauritania. Or you just see a number you can’t recognize.
The first spam email was sent in 1978 to 600 people. That opened the floodgates to more than 120 billion spam emails being sent every single day. Estimates have calculated that as much as 85% of all emails sent are, in fact, spam.
Every level of the government is tracking you. We’re not just talking about the internet — you probably know by now how lucrative your browsing history is. But there’s something else you have that public entities want: your face.
