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Find Where Your Photos Are Illegally Being Used Online
1A few years ago I was scrolling through the home page of a large magazine and saw a photo I had taken featured in the middle of its homepage. The pic was a distinctive one of a surprised Mark Zuckerberg I had taken at a press conference. Where I was sitting when I took the…
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Learning The Backup Lesson – The Hard Way
Today is a big day for me. It’s my last official day at Lifehacker. Over the last couple of years I’ve done my best to inform you all and help you solve various problems and challenges. So, I figured for my last feature article in this stint as a contributor at Lifehacker I’d share what…
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How To Make Your Online Dating Profile More Swipe-able
Online dating is, for lack of a better phrase, freaking exhausting. I’d be lying if I said I enjoyed using Tinder, Bumble and the like, but dating in this modern age without them is almost unheard of. I’ve heard several people describe their dating-app experience as “video game-like”, which is kind of disheartening, considering that…
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Can You Really Stalk Somebody Through Their Eyeball Reflections?
Recently, a stalker found and attacked a Japanese pop star, in part by using an eye reflection to figure out what train station she uses. (He then waited for her at the train station and followed her home.) This got us wondering: how easy is it to get clues about somebody’s location from their selfies?