Category Archives: Clips

Stop giving companies your phone number. Do this instead

Facebook and Twitter admit that marketers accessed the phone numbers people gave them for security verification. Here’s how to protect yourself without handing over your digits. (Fast Company)

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Master your Mac with these 18 power tips

The trusty macOS you use every day hides powerful features—some old, some brand-new—that can make your experience more productive and enjoyable. (Fast Company)

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15 of the Best Nikon D3200/D3300/D3400/D3500 Accessories

Take better pictures and make life easier with these accessories for the Nikon D3200, D3300, D3400, and D3500. You’ll also find great gift ideas for their owners. (Tom’s Guide)

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Terrible tippers are making underpaid delivery jobs even worse

Grocery delivery gig workers on Instacart are complaining of more jobs with low tips, zero tips, or disappearing tips. (Fast Company)

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Tucker Carlson’s downplaying of white supremacy reinvigorates year-long boycott effort`

Fox News’s Tucker Carlson dropped an especially loud bomb Tuesday night by saying that white supremacy is “not a real problem in America,” among other startling assertions on the subject. (Fast Company)

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Nikon Coolpix A1000 Review: Long Zoom at a Low Price

A respectable compact zoom camera, but not the best option in its class and price range (Tom’s Guide)

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50 years after Apollo, a U.S. return to the moon looks depressingly far off

Persistent technical setbacks and political infighting have introduced unending delays in our trip back to the lunar surface. (Fast Company)

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Instacart drivers fear that hiding customer addresses puts them at risk

The company has begun hiding the addresses of some assignments until after the driver accepts it—a policy change that drivers fiercely opposed last year. (Read more on Fast Company)

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I tried and failed to quit Facebook. Here’s what I did instead

Despite Facebook’s annoyances and privacy violations, abandoning the largest community in human history may have more downsides than benefits. (Fast Company)

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These 11 Facebook privacy tweaks put you back in control

Quitting Facebook is hard. But using it without handing over too much data is easier than you think. (Fast Company)

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