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Search No Further: How Changes to the Search Feature Give Facebook More Power Than Ever

Search No Further: How Changes to the Search Feature Give Facebook More Power Than Ever

Announcing Big Changes: This past week, Facebook launched an update to its search feature that may give Twitter a run for its money – or at very least, some cause for concern. An announcement by Tom Stocky, VP of...
By Brittany Mcgillivray on 10/30/15 1
Data-Dumped: Understanding Data (and Being Understanding) in the Time of Ashley Madison

Data-Dumped: Understanding Data (and Being Understanding) in the Time of Ashley Madison

Ever since the hacker group, self-dubbed the ‘Impact Team,’ published 9.7 gigabytes of information from an estimated 37 million Ashley Madison users on the dark web, the extramarital dating site has been an unavoidable topic of discussion. It seems...
By Brittany Mcgillivray on 09/17/15 Comments Off on Data-Dumped: Understanding Data (and Being Understanding) in the Time of Ashley Madison