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The Forever 1st Lady Michelle Obama is getting a new podcast. “Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast,” is scheduled to start March 7th on Amazon’s Audible. Michelle Obama’s conversations with celebrities will cover topics in her recently released book “The Light We Carry: Overcoming Uncertain Times. “The Light Podcast” will feature Michelle Obama’s discussions on her recent book […]

How young is too young for social media? According to Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, he believes 13 years old is just too early to join social media platforms. According to Murthy, this may result in adolescents having a “distorted” sense of who they are throughout critical developmental years. “I, personally, based on the data I’ve seen, believe that […]

A new bill proposed by NY Senator Thomas O’Mara would push the speed limit up to at 70 for NYS highways. Currently, state law caps all speed limits at 55 miles per hour for any road, highway, parkway, or bridge. For certain highways — such as interstate highways — the limit steps up to 65 […]

More layoffs are happening in the tech world. Spotify will be cutting costs through laying off staff. The company is joining Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet Inc. (a Google company) in thousands of job cuts. The number of job layoff is not clear according to Reuters.com however there have been reports that say 6% of jobs […]

T-Mobile said that an unidentified malicious intruder breached its network in late November and stole data on 37 million customers, including addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. T-Mobile said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the breach was discovered Jan. 5. It said the data exposed to theft — based […]

Three-fourths of teens say they have watched pornography online and more than half say they were exposed to it by the age of 13, a new survey suggests. The report, “Teens and Pornography,” released by the nonprofit organization Common Sense Media, found the average age reported for first viewing online pornography was 12. But 15% said they had seen online pornography […]

RIT held a tournament this past weekend. It wasn’t a sports event, but it did have to do with technology. The Rochester Institute of Technology held a cyber security hacking tournament with some of the top hacking teams. The teams weren’t breaking any laws with the competition, this is what they call ethical hacking. The […]

Seattle’s public school district filed a lawsuit against Big Tech companies. The suit claims that the companies were responsible for a worsening mental health crisis among students and directly affected the schools’ ability to carry out their educational mission. The complaint, filed against Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), Meta Platforms Inc (META.O), Snap Inc (SNAP.N) and TikTok-owner […]

Beyonce is on Apple Fitness+ Artist Spotlight series. The Beyoncé-inspired exercises will be accessible through the Fitness app. The app will feature seven specifically tailored cycling, dancing, HIIT, pilates, strength, treadmill, and yoga workouts that will use her music. Later this month, Apple Fitness+ will launch additional Artist Spotlight programs including Foo Fighters and Bad […]

Were having issues with your Instagram account ? The social media giant Meta took to Twitter to inform users that the platform had an outage that caused several accounts to be suspended, removed or just wasn’t loading properly. Last week the company’s WhatsApp crashed for hours. Meta has yet to say what caused the outage. https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/10/instagram-app-crashes-users-randomly-suspended-in-outage.html