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Having Too Many Facebook Friends Is Stressing You Out

Surprise, everyone! Social media may be making us miserable, at least according to a study from the University of Edinburgh Business School, which found that […]

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I Fell for the Facebook Privacy Notice Hoax

I need to come clean: Yesterday I posted that goofy little copyright thing on my Facebook. And I’m so, so sorry. Like most people, when […]

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It’s Too Late: You’ve Already Signed Your Soul to Facebook

You’ve probably seen the same Facebook statuses that we’ve seen today, the ones in which the writer asserts that “I hereby declare that my copyright […]

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Eagles’ Jason Kelce Tweets Deep Thoughts on Notre Dame, Theology

Injured Eagles lineman Jason Kelce decided to have a little fun with Saturday’s Notre Dame game, Tweeting out a theological observation about the university’s Catholic […]

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Best Cyber Monday Deal: Your Boss Pays You to Shop!

Cyber Monday. It’s going to be huge. As big as the Internet. [Fox 29, ABC] Philly Leads in Tickets for Texting While Driving. Since PA […]

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Philly Fire Department May Unretire Popular #Notonfire Hashtag

When the Philly Fire Department launched a “playful” hashtag on Twitter earlier this year—#notonfire—the department benefitted, seeing the number of Twitter followers nearly double from […]

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Study: For Some Time Now, People Have Been Getting Measurably Dumber

The other day, during one of my too-frequent tumbles down the rabbit hole of cyberspace, I came across an article discussing a paper published in […]

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Facebook Introduces “Couples Pages” Because Gross

We’ve all know couples who refused to abide by Facebook’s rules and chose to share a single account right? And in the cases where we […]

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Don’t Add Manufacturing Jobs, Give Them to Robots

Jeep might not be moving its construction centers over to China, and manufacturing numbers may be up for the second month straight, but the future […]

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What I Learned From Live-Tweeting Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy kept me busy. Unlike responsible, intrepid reporters who got down and dirty with Sandy—including the admirable Jason Nark of the Daily News, who […]

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Working From Home Could Make Us Crazy

With Hurricane Sandy battering the East Coast, hundreds of businesses across the region closed and told employees to ride out Monday and Tuesday testing flashlight […]

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Clark Kent Quits the Daily Planet. Read: Superman Can’t Save Newspapers.

When the Man of Steel can’t save the newspaper business, is there any hope for the real Daily Planets of the galaxy? In the latest issue […]

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Hurricane Sandy Should Make PECO Ashamed of its Twitter Account

With the ominous Hurricane Sandy set to make landfall in the Philadelphia area, Twitter users might be looking to the Twitter account of PECO (aka […]

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You Can’t Terrorist-Proof the Internet, but the UN Wants to Try Anyway

If we have too free an Internet, the terrorists win—or at least according to a recent cyber-terrorism report put out by the United Nations. Dubbed […]

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Nutter’s $3.5 Million Pledge for Tech Startups in Philly

Gov. Corbett Not Worried About Being Investigated. To those calling for an investigation of his handling of the Jerry Sandusky case while PA attorney general, […]