Your 15 year old is correct. Anyone is free to edit Wikipedia. That doesn’t necessarily mean the information isn’t accurate, but schools generally frown upon relying on the facts contained within it. I always learned as a journalist to double check facts against various sources, which is probably a good idea in general.
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This handy little app scans your email & social networks to come up with the most thorough address book you’ve ever seen. Want to find some obscure person you emailed a few years back? It can do that. It can also tell you who you email and interact with the most.
The election info-graphic to end all election info-graphics.
This smoke detector automatically calls the fire department. Good for peace of mind, not good if you have a lot of false alarms from burning food!
It’s Clean Out Your Inbox Week. Here are tips to get you started.
This tool can help you see what Google knows about you. You’ve probably heard that Google is stream-lining it’s privacy policy. Basically this means what it learns about you inside YouTube it can use to serve up ads through one of its other products, like web search. This tool can give you a little snapshot of Google’s ad profile of you - you must be logged into Google for this to work.
Tech Report Video: A new robot-assisted surgery is helping doctors perform better hip replacements.
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Did you hear it? Forgot to silence my phone this morning…a little Tweetbot sound snuck its way on-air!