How to Choose Your Shopping List App in the Google Home App
Google Assistant and Nest smart speakers (aka Google Home) make it easy to add items to shopping lists with just your voice. If you don’t want...
All the Men I’ve Slept with at Work
Chapter 2, Excerpted from Luster by Raven Leilani On Thursday morning the hot water isn’t running and there is a new mouse caught in the trap....
How Much Cheaper Are AWS-Reserved Instances?
If you know you’re going to be using an EC2 instance for a long time, you can commit to a yearly contract to buy the instance...
7 Books About Coming of Age in a Small Town
It can seem like there’s a checklist of growing pains to be endured as we edge our way towards adulthood; overbearing parents and nuisance siblings, unrequited...
Toni Morrison Let Us Know We Are More Than the Work We Do
Adapted from remarks given at the Toni Morrison Festival in February 2020. About three years ago, Toni Morrison wrote a short and, as is her style,...
APK Download Site Must Pay $150,000 For Offering Pirate Streaming Apps
Last year, a group of movie companies filed a lawsuit against the operators of various websites that promoted and distributed so-called pirate apps. These apps, including...
YouTube Rippers Eye Supreme Court After Appeals Court Denies Rehearing
YouTube rippers are seen as the largest piracy threat to the music industry, and record labels are doing their best to shut them down. In 2017,...
Internet Archive Tells Court its Digital Library is Protected Under Fair Use
Back in March the Internet Archive (IA) launched its National Emergency Library (NEL) Built on its existing Open Library, the NEL aimed to assist “displaced learners”...
Court Lifts Copyright Troll Roadblock but Puts Brakes on Piracy Settlement Bonanza
In the United States, federal courts are still swamped with lawsuits filed against alleged BitTorrent pirates. This phenomenon, often dubbed as ‘copyright trolling’, started over a...
Disney Obtains New ‘Dynamic’ Court Order to Block 118 ‘Pirate’ Domains
Major Hollywood studios and other rightsholders consider site-blocking an effective tool to combat rampant online infringement. Opponents, on the other hands, view the tactic not only...
