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What the Tech? Is TikTok Collecting Your Personal Data?

TikTok is the world’s #1 entertainment app. More popular than YouTube and any video streaming app. It provides an endless stream of videos shot and uploaded by users. You’ve no doubt watched a viral TikTok video as they’re showing up in the news and shared on social media sites such as Facebook. Recently, the app has raised suspicions over what…

What the Tech? Your Internet Charges May Be Going Up

Your monthly internet cost may be going up in July. Either that or your internet bandwidth speeds may slow down when you hit a certain limit. When the pandemic began the FCC launched “Keep Americans Connected” encouraging internet providers across the country to help people who were suddenly working from home alongside their kids who were finishing up the school…

What the Tech? App of the Day: Whisk

Like you I have three or four recipe apps on my smartphone. There’s Big Oven, Kitchen Stories, Tasty, Epicurious. All great apps with thousands of recipes for meals, deserts and drinks. You’ve probably saved a bunch of recipes in those apps, but when it comes time to make one of them, you may have to go searching through all of…

What the Tech? Amazon Creates Counterfeit Crimes Unit

If you’ve shopped at Amazon you’ve probably run across a product that is a counterfeit. Fake Apple chargers, earbuds, Vera Bradley purses, batteries, SD cards and Yeezy shoes have been spotted but still purchased by shoppers. Amazon has announced it created a Counterfeit Crimes Unit to not only investigate products and sellers but to bring them to prosecution and justice….

What the Tech? Coronavirus Leads to Surge in E-Sports Popularity

  The coronavirus pandemic has been terrible for the sports most of us love. The NCAA basketball tournament was canceled. The MLB season is delayed along with The Masters and Wimbledon. One sport is doing quite well though. E-sports is actually bigger than ever. At any given moment, millions of people around the world are watching people play video games….

What the Tech? Should You Worry That Your Phone Is Tracking You?

A couple of weeks ago, T-Mobile customers lost their cell signal for a few hours and some then lost their minds. In the following days, posts started circulating on Facebook, stirring up a conspiracy that the company was secretly adding trackers on all T-Mobile phones. Soon, many smartphone owners from all wireless carriers were in a tizzy over the tracker…

What the Tech? Social Media Makes Many People Unhappy

It should come as no surprise that according to a new survey, Americans are more unhappy than they’ve been in nearly 50 years. It’s easy to pinpoint the cause. Pandemic, isolation, job loss and protests that have taken over entire cities. But there’s also a secondary reason that’s related to all of those things. Social media posts and comments about…