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Threads tips and tricks: Social media can be a place where you interact with people, share ideas and experiences, and entertain yourself, or it can be a toxic space where you feel pressurized by the constant desire to participate in some kind of a popularity contest and fixate on the number of likes you get compared to others in your circle. And to ensure the latter does not become your primary experience on social media, Meta platforms like Instagram and Facebook added a tool in 2021 that lets users decide whether they…

A Canadian judge has ruled that the popular “thumbs-up” emoji not only can be used as a contract agreement, but is just as valid as an actual signature. The Saskatchewan-based judge made the ruling on the grounds that the courts must adapt to the “new reality” of how people communicate, The case involved a grain buyer sending out a mass text to drum up clients and a farmer agreeing to sell 86 tons of flax for around $13 per bushel. The buyer texted a contract agreement to the farmer and asked for the farmer to “confirm”…

With AI’s integration into search technology, the pace of change is quickening. Knowing where to allocate your time and effort best is an increasingly complex task.  Many SEO tools out there suggest actions to take care of, but are they really helpful in most cases? Or are most jobs suggested busy work that will do nothing to help improve your results? In such times of change, the best way to see the path ahead is to look back and learn the lessons of the past. We are fortunate to have many robust, time-proven…

Donald Trump Charged With A Total Seven Counts Over Handling Of Classified Documents In Violation Of The Espionage Act, Read On! (Picture Credit: Bang Showbiz) Donald Trump has been charged over his handling of classified documents after he left the White House. The 76-year-old former US president is facing seven charges, which remain sealed to the public, and will appear in Federal Court in Miami on Tuesday (13.06.23), with his lawyer, Jim Trusty, confirming the allegations “break out from an Espionage Act charge.”…

The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft is pictured docked to the space-facing port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module. Dragon Freedom carried four Axiom Mission-2 astronauts to the orbital lab on May 22, 2023, including Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot John Shoffner, and Mission Specialists Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi. Credit: NASA<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div…

Image Source : GOOGLE PLAY STORE YouTube Music app to include 'Play Counts' feature: Know more YouTube is reportedly experimenting with a new feature called 'play counts' on its popular music streaming service, YouTube Music. According to reports, this feature has been observed by several Reddit users who accessed the service through both the Android application and the…

Physicians Raymond Bunge and C. M. Kinloch Nelson noticed something unusual happening at their Iowa clinic in the early 1970s: a growing number of men seeking infertility treatment. To investigate whether there might be changes in sperm in the general male population, they looked at sperm samples from 386 presumably fertile men—those seeking an elective vasectomy. Bunge and Nelson were shocked by their results: compared with men in the few studies prior, these men had lower semen volume, a higher quantity of abnormal…

Near the end of 2021, YouTube made the controversial decision to make dislike counts private across the entire service. You can still dislike YouTube videos with the thumbs down button, but the only people who will ever see those dislikes are the channel’s owners. At the time, YouTube explained that the goal was to protect creators from harassment and dislike attacks, but it also removed a potentially valuable metric that viewers could use to evaluate a video. Pros and cons aside, dislike counts probably…

Last November, Audi announced a rebranding of its flagship e-tron model to the Q8 e-tron, establishing it as its top-of-the-line EV model and solidifying its place in the c-segment without any more confusion. I recently got the opportunity to explore the added performance of both the Audi Q8 e-tron quattro and Sportback through the Redwoods and along the coast of Sonoma County in California. Here are my thoughts. Isn’t the Q8 just the original Audi e-tron? Yes. Yes, it is. But this…

Almost every day, Jim Anderson climbs the stairs to the roof of the six-storey building where he works in London's SoHo neighbourhood. And while it offers an eye-catching vista of London's skyline, he's not up there for the view.He makes this daily ascent to tend to an instrument called a volumetric spore trap. Anderson, who is a aerobiologist, retrieves from the trap a slide covered with a thin layer of sticky grease, not unlike a fly trap. The instrument sucks in air at the rate of two litres a minute, blowing it…