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Summary List PlacementIf you have a Gmail account that you no longer want, whether because it was for a business you no longer run, or was created when you were thirteen and now only receives spam emails, you may find yourself wanting to delete it.  When you delete a Gmail address, you won't delete the Google account associated with it. This means you'll still...

Summary List PlacementPeople use Google Forms for everything from research surveys to academic quizzes. It's especially helpful because of how customizable the questions are. One of these customization options is the ability to upload files, as well as letting people taking your quiz or survey upload files themselves. If you want to provide a visual aid, or want respondents to hand in an assignment,...

Summary List PlacementThe Magic Wand is one of Photoshop's most powerful selection tools. Unlike other tools that make you manually select what you want, the Magic Wand tool does it automatically. Photoshop's Magic Wand is handy for selecting the background of a photo, or an object that's entirely one color. This is because it decides what to select based on colors — once it...

Summary List PlacementBoolean logic — if it sounds like a phrase straight out of an algebra textbook, that's because it is. Developed by a 19th century mathematician, this research method allows people to seek out information using "and," "or," or "not" phrases and is widely used among recruiters as a way to filter through job candidate profiles with efficiency and speed.  And job seekers...

Summary List PlacementIt all started at her mom's dining-room table.  After the 2016 presidential election, Alisha Ramos was experiencing professional and emotional burnout. Ramos, who was 26 at the time, had been working as the design lead for HealthCare.gov, which was undergoing major changes as a result of the new administration.  "I was showing up to work every day, but I had no fulfillment,"...

Summary List PlacementIn the wake of Trump's permanent ban from Twitter and indefinite ban from Facebook, right-wing public figures cried censorship. Media personalities and politicians alike claimed the situation was Orwellian, akin to the events of "1984"; on right-wing cable news networks, show hosts wryly welcomed their viewers to "Communist China." As an academic who researches social media platforms and the extremist groups that...

Summary List PlacementRoblox is an online gaming platform that people, especially kids, are playing significantly. It's a community where users can participate in games and activities other users have designed, create their own games, or just dress up their avatar, decorate their home, and socialize. But some parents have grown wary or frustrated with Roblox — there have been complaints from parents that it...

Summary List PlacementBandcamp is a beloved website where independent musicians share and sell their music. If you love and support a band, there isn't a much better place to buy their music than on Bandcamp. On a normal day, the majority of sales go directly to artists (Bandcamp takes 15% of digital sales and 10% of merch sales), but on the first Friday of...

Summary List PlacementThe twentieth-century literary scholar and philosopher Kenneth Burke once wrote that, "The conventional forms demanded by one age are as resolutely shunned by another." Burke's point was that the ever-evolving nature of communication technologies continuously alters the forms of discourse that dominate our information landscape. In the past 10 years, the world has been undergoing a seismic change in this regard, as...

Summary List PlacementEataly, the Italian marketplace home to multiple eateries, retail, and more, tripled its number of stores in North America between 2016 and 2019, and with it saw its business grow substantially.  The company continued to remain successful through 2020. Of course, Raffaele Piarulli, executive vice president of Eataly North America, who's been with the company for 11 years — including the 10...

Summary List PlacementIn the beginning of 2020, my friend's wedding was postponed due to the pandemic, so my close friend Coco Chan and I thought it would be nice to throw her and her fiance a cute picnic to celebrate their original wedding date in early October 8. @jaucccy set up a wedding anniversary picnic with me 💍🥂✨ ##fyp ##luxurypicnic ##picnicdate ##dateideas ##thingstodoinsf ##sf...

Summary List PlacementThe YouTube comment section is often as popular as the actual video on which people are commenting. YouTube comments give you the chance to share a thought or memory, debate a topic, decry an opinion, or support someone else's stance.  YouTube comment sections can be home to hilarious anecdotes or brutal vitriol, but either way, they're rarely boring. If you've left a...

Summary List PlacementCurrently, Google Fiber is offered in 18 cities and provides internet service, TV streaming, and phone plans.  Plan costs vary by region, but for a 1,000 Mbps (also known as a megabit per second) download speed, you can expect to pay around $70 a month. For download speeds ranging up from 100 Mbps, plans start generally start at $50 a month. Those...

Summary List PlacementWe generally associate one-stop shopping with convenience. We generally want to be able to buy all our groceries in the same store, listen to all of our music via a single music service, and pay all of our bills using one banking service. That's the idea behind the Apple ID subscription manager — Apple has tried to centralize all of your recurring...

Summary List PlacementEarlier this week I was plugging in my Christmas lights when I heard my phone vibrate on the counter — it was a Twitter notification from my company's intern. She said in a direct message, "Read this thread." I stopped what I was doing and began skimming April Christina Curley's Twitter thread about her removal from Google and my jaw dropped. April...

Summary List PlacementIf you're an Android user, the Google Play Store needs no introduction.    But did you know that with every app downloaded, Google Play creates background data that's stored in a hidden cache on your device? This stored data helps Google Play run more smoothly, helping transfer information quicker, reducing load times and improving general performance.  But as the cache works quietly...

Summary List PlacementPhotoshop comes with a wide selection of brushes you can use right away, but you can also purchase new brushes or download free ones to expand your creative options.  However, like a lot of Photoshop's key functions, it's not obvious how to add these brushes afterwards — you're left with hundreds of menus and icons to sift through yourself. Here's how to...

Summary List PlacementThis year, investors poured more than $4 billion into EdTech startups by August, according to Crunchbase, rising to $9.7 billion by November, Wired reports. When the pandemic forced many students into full-time remote learning last spring, people begun reconsidering the value of a traditional college education in its present form. This helped spur the growth of online education options across the educational...