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Do you or someone you know use the popular “Ever” photo storage app?
If so, you need to know that according to this NBC News story the company behind the app is using your photos for face recognition purposes!
The company says they’re only using their customers’ photos to “train” the app, but who knows what’s really going on behind the scenes?
A while back I wrote a post explaining how you can put your computer on steroids by replacing its hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).
Until fairly recently upgrading to an SSD would have cost you dearly if you wanted to keep (or even increase) your system’s current amount of storage space.
Well, that changed last year when the prices of many 1TB SSDs dropped to around a hundred bucks!
SSDs in the 2TB range and up are still pretty expensive compared to hard drives, but I expect that to change as well in the second half of 2019.
SSD manufacturers are now in the process of ramping up the production of large drives and I believe the cost of 2TB SSDs will sink to the same ~$100 level that 1TB models currently sell for fairly soon.
Have you always wanted to take advantage of Amazon’s great deals and awesome selection of merchandise but didn’t because you don’t feel comfortable with using your credit or debit card to shop online?
Well, truth be told, there are actually a couple of easy ways to shop at Amazon without having to give them your card info.
In fact, I wrote a post a while back that explains how to buy Amazon gift cards locally and use them to shop at the Amazon website.
Well there’s another way to shop online at Amazon without having to use a credit card: Pay with cash!
Yes, you read that correctly. You can actually shop at the world’s largest online retailer and pay cash for your purchases! Here’s how: [Read more…]
You might not be aware of this, but Facebook’s search feature is quite powerful and extremely thorough in the way it conducts it.
As a matter of fact, virtually every public post, comment and photo you have ever placed on Facebook will come up in the search results unless you have your privacy settings configured to prevent it! [Read more…]
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