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Washington Post: “Nobody is immune to scams. Criminals are constantly changing them to fit the latest headlines, target our insecurities and slip through even the most well-honed BS detectors. That means everyone, young and old, can benefit from a refresher on how to spot a text, phone or online scam and what to do next. …
The New York Times:”…Architects, academic administrators, doctors, nursing home workers and lawyers described growing electronic surveillance over every minute of their workday. They echoed complaints that employees in many lower-paid positions have voiced for years: that their jobs are relentless, that they don’t have control — and in some cases, that they don’t even have …
ZDNet: “With this Gmail feature, you have up to 30 seconds to catch and unsend a grammar mistake, a misspelled name, or even the wrong recipient before it’s cast into someone’s inbox abyss. Gmail has an Undo Send feature that gives you up to a 30-second grace period after you send an email, so you …
ZDNet: “Gmail is used by millions of people around the globe. As of July, 28.13% of people use Gmail as their primary email client. I count myself in that number (only Gmail is far from being the only account I use) and actually depend on Gmail for work-related communication. Regularly, I have to send sensitive …
Fast Company: “Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: you should use a different password for every account you have, and each of those passwords should be an extraordinarily long and complex string of characters that are easy for you to remember but hard for others to guess. Unfortunately, that’s solid advice and equally …
Washington Post: “You’ve decided to leave your job and now it’s time to turn in your devices. But what should you do first? Grab all your personal documents and delete them? Do a factory reset to ensure none of your personal data gets left behind? Or do you turn the devices back in as they …
The Verge: “After rolling out its Email Protection service in private beta last year, DuckDuckGo has announced that it’s finally available to all users. Email Protection is a forwarding service that assigns you a free “@duck.com” email address and intercepts email trackers before they hit your personal inbox. If you need a refresher on exactly …
The Verge: “…There are other good reasons to have a local backup of your Google info. You may be switching jobs, or maybe you’ve decided to stop using a specific email account, or you just want a copy of all your emails just in case. Whatever your reasons, it’s not a bad idea to back …
BBC: “Workplace bullying is thriving in the remote-work era, as technology opens new avenues for unkind behaviour. At first, Joyce didn’t identify what was happening in her workplace as bullying. Her company had been largely remote for years, and she felt no physical threat from her colleagues. “I didn’t really think about that,” says the …
American Bar Association – “Senior lawyers may recall a time when we generally connected with each other via telephone calls, the U.S. Postal Service, or face-to-face meetings. In light of the numerous communication options now available, life is no longer so simple. Most importantly, choosing the wrong platform can lead to ineffective or failed communication. …
Our COVID-19 Archive aims to aggregate digitized documents related to the the initial phases of the pandemic. To start, we have processed the emails of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. They are now divided into individual emails, which can be searched and sorted with the original metadata …
Computer History Museum: “This timeline reflects the history of computer-mediated human communications (any human communication that occurs through the use of two or more electronic devices), the events that led up to the development of electronic mail (email), and its commercialization. It is intended for use by researchers and academics interested in the technical evolution …
