So you’ve finished your book. Its been edited and published, and now you’re trying to figure out how to get to your potential readers. While beginning your marketing campaign usually happens well before your book is completed, getting your first reviews can’t begin until your book is done or in a final draft status. Many […]
How Playing Video Games Affects Your Body And Brain
Video games are one of the most popular and commonly enjoyed forms of entertainment of our time, yet there’s a lot of controversy around them. The World Health Organization recently decided to add “gaming disorder” to its official list of mental health conditions, stating that gaming behavior could qualify as problematic if it interferes significantly in […]
Apples iBooks revamp, Apple Books, is here
Apple’s new and improved iBooks app, now called Apple Books, has popped up on iPhones across the world today with the release of iOS 12, the software update available to download as of this morning. The new app has five tabs: Reading Now, Library, Book Store, Search and, for the first time, a dedicated Audiobooks tab. […]
Bizarre, Unexpected Facts About Iconic Figures From History
Cracked pays people to make smart memes. Visit the Photoplasty and Pictofacts Workshop to get in on it. There are amazing facts about historical figures that entire industries of publicity people try to keep you from knowing. They may not even be all that sinister or weird, but if they don’t fit the public image […]
Trump colored the American flag wrong, and the internet is in hysterics
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iOS 12 makes your phone faster than ever
iOS 12 could be summed up in one feature: speed. The rest is just a footnote, especially when you compare iOS 12 to iOS 11. You may remember that iOS 11 was filled with many new features, especially on the iPad. But it was also the buggiest release to date. Even the Calculator app wasn’t […]
How ‘d*ck soap’ turned the publishing industry upside down
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Do TV quizzes need ‘gender neutral’ questions?
“They are trying very hard to strike a better balance between questions that refer to men and questions that refer to women,” she says. She acknowledges this is hard because men have traditionally had the freedom to achieve more, and their achievements are more well known. Alan Connor – question editor on Richard Osman’s House […]
Facebook and Microsoft briefed state officials on election security efforts today
So much for summer Fridays. Yesterday, BuzzFeed reported that a dozen tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Snapchat, would meet at Twitter headquarters on Friday to discuss election security. For two of them, that wasn’t the only meeting in the books. In what appears to be a separate event on Friday, Facebook and Microsoft […]
‘Are we there yet?’ A road trip with kids is itself a destination
Route 219, West Virginia (CNN)I’m writing this on a road trip, the longest we’ve taken with our two daughters. It is nine hours according to the phone’s GPS, which means 11 hours in actual time with stops, which equates to 24 hours in perceived time. “Best case scenario for a car trip with little kids: […]
In the Trump era, satire is a dying art
Barack Obama and Joe Biden team up in a fictional crime novel (left) and Sacha Baron Cohen poses as one of his new characters (right), but neither match the absurdity of reality.Image: quirk books/showtime Nearly 20 months into the international embarrassment that is the Trump administration, faced with the prospect that its president may well […]