Tag: small business for sale

Tinder will integrate background checks to keep users safe

Posted onAuthoradmin

Tinder parent company Match Group announced Monday that it plans to bring background checks to the dating app later this year. To do so, it plans to work with Garbo , a New York nonprofit focused on background checks around violence and abuse, to make it easy for people to find out if their matches have documented histories of such behavior. While the exact details remain to be determined, Match Group head of safety Tracey Breeden says users can expect to see a feature based on the partnership appear in Tinder in 2021. Since Tinder is one of the company’s most popular dating apps, it’s a natural place to try the feature, she says, but if it is successful there users are likely to see it appear in Match’s other apps as well, including OKCupid, Hinge, and Plenty of Fish. Tracy Breeden [Photo: courtesy of Tinder] Garbo’s overall goal is to work with vulnerable populations including women, people of color, and LGBT people to protect them from gender-based violence. It aims to provide inexpensive or free access to information that’s buried in paywalled court records or otherwise difficult for people to access, like convictions for crimes of violence or civil restraining orders. “We fundamentally believe that public record access should be free, if not very, very low cost,” says Garbo founder Kathryn Kosmides, who is herself a survivor of gender-based violence. Relationship violence is unfortunately quite common , especially against women, and violence linked to dating services has existed long before the internet. Tinder already provides users with safety tips like meeting in public and avoiding accepting drinks from strangers, as well as ways to report people who behave inappropriately on the platform. Match Group announced a partnership with the anti-sexual violence group, Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), late last year , to review its existing safety measures and reporting tools. Read More …

Vaccine passports are coming. Here’s why they’re controversial

Posted onAuthoradmin

Vaccine passports—proof that you’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19—are at this point an inevitability. Countries including Seychelles, Cyprus, Georgia, Romania, Poland, Iceland, and Estonia will require travelers to have a COVID-19 vaccination to enter. Now, lots of tech companies are working on building apps that certify a traveler is vaccinated. But there are a few problems with vaccine passports, and the World Health Organization has voiced its distaste for the concept. The main concern is that vaccine distribution is not globally equitable and vaccine passports could create social stratification. “At the present time the use of certification of vaccination as a requirement for travel is not advised because quite simply vaccination is just not available enough around the world and is not available certainly on an equitable basis,” said Michael Ryan, head of the WHO’s health-emergencies program, at a press conference. The organization says that it thinks providing vaccinated people with an official certification is valuable for public health purposes, but that vaccination should not entitle a person to more freedoms than an unvaccinated person. This is particularly true, the WHO notes, because there is no proof that any of the COVID-19 vaccines prevent transmission of COVID-19 Read More …

Microsoft Edge’s vertical tabs are the best reason yet to ditch Chrome

Posted onAuthoradmin

For the last two decades, we’ve been putting our browser tabs in the wrong place, and the latest version of Microsoft Edge proves it. Last week, Edge added support for vertical tabs, transforming the traditional tab row at the top of the browser into a column that runs down the left side. To make the switch, you just tap the little square icon on the far-left side of the tab row. Switching back is easy enough—just hit the same icon at the top of the sidebar—but if you’re an Edge user, I strongly suggest resisting the urge. Like any big user interface change, vertical tabs take some getting used to. But if you stick with it for a couple of weeks, as I’ve been doing through Edge’s beta version, you may soon realize that the sidebar is where your tabs should have been all along. Making the most of vertical tabs The best thing about vertical tabs is that you can comfortably fit more of them on the screen. Running Edge on a 24-inch, 1440p monitor, I can only load seven tabs in horizontal mode before Edge starts shrinking them down and cutting off page titles. Switching to vertical mode lets me view 26 tabs at the same time without shrinking down page titles at all. Even if you have more tabs than can fit on the screen, Edge lets you scroll up or down the list with your mouse or touchpad, just like you’d scroll through a web page. As Lifehacker’ s David Murphy points out , vertical tabs get even more useful when you combine them with Tab Groups, a still-experimental feature that you can find by typing edge://flags into your address bar and then entering “Tab Groups” in the search field. You should see options for “Tab Groups,” “Tab Groups Auto Create,” and “Tab Groups Collapse.” I suggest setting all three to “Enabled.” Once you’ve done that, right-click any tab and select “Add tab to a new group.” You can then color-code the group, give it a name, and drag other tabs into it. Clicking on the tab name or color will collapse or expand the group, and Edge will occasionally create some groups of its own, usually when you open several tabs from the same site. Although I’ve mentioned Tab Groups before, I never used it much with horizontal tabs because it didn’t do much to prevent clutter. With the extra space afforded by vertical tabs, those groups finally have room to breathe. To be clear, Microsoft didn’t invent the vertical tab menu. Opera popularized the concept years ago but abandoned it after rebuilding its browser around Google’s source code. (Some users still cling to the old version of Opera specifically for its vertical tab support .) Vivaldi, which was created by one of Opera’s founders , lets users reposition the tab bar to the right, left, or bottom edge of the browser Read More …

4 little-known Kindle tricks to elevate your e-book experience

Posted onAuthoradmin

Whether you’re using one of the Kindle apps or a dedicated Kindle reader to enjoy your e-books, you’d be forgiven for not looking too closely at many of the platform’s available features beyond flipping pages backward and forward. But there are a handful of cool, useful, but otherwise under-promoted little tricks you might find handy. Let’s take a look. Lend to a friend Many of the Kindle books you own can be digitally lent out to someone else for 14 days, which is a really fun way to share a good read with a friend. The process feels a little clunky the first time through but once you get the hang of it, you’ll be flinging books to your friends and family without worrying about dog-eared pages or battered bindings. Use this link to see all the Kindle books you currently own and click the three-dot button in the Actions column next to a book you want to lend out. If the book is available to lend, you’ll see a “Loan this title” link that, when clicked, will let you send the book to other people else via their email address. A recipient then has seven days to accept the book and 14 days to read it, during which time you won’t be able to access it yourself. The book will be returned to you during the 14-day window if your recipient finishes it early or automatically once the time expires. And choose your recipient wisely: Any given book can only be lent once, so make sure to use your newfound powers sparingly. Send non-Kindle content to your Kindle That 50-page work proposal that you don’t feel like reading on your laptop? You can read it on the eye-friendly e-ink screen of a Kindle reader instead (or via one of the Kindle apps, if you’re so inclined). Each of your Kindle devices and apps has a unique email address that you can use to send yourself Word documents, web pages, images, and PDFs. To find the email address for your device or app, visit your Devices page on Amazon’s site and then choose your Kindle devices or your Kindle apps to view their respective @kindle.com email addresses. But wait! There’s more. You can also sling stuff to your Kindle devices and apps directly from the Chrome web browser, by using a dedicated desktop app for Mac and PC, or from an Android device to a Kindle reader. Visit Amazon’s Send to Kindle page for more details and instructions Read More …

Netflix is asking some users to prove they’re not sharing passwords

Posted onAuthoradmin

Don’t call it a crackdown just yet, but Netflix is testing a new way to keep password sharing under control. In a screenshot shared on Twitter this week, Netflix appeared to seek extra verification before letting users into the app, offering to send a one-time passcode to the account holder via email or text message. The prompt also showed an option to “verify later.” O no. Netflix doing the purge?!? pic.twitter.com/XXlHtfgfsy — chante most (@DOP3Sweet) March 9, 2021 “If you don’t live with the owner of this account, you need your own account to keep watching,” the message said, while offering a 30-day trial. Netflix confirmed the test’s authenticity to streaming news site The Streamable but offered few additional details. “This test is designed to help ensure that people using Netflix accounts are authorized to do so,” a spokesperson said. Is a crackdown coming? Netflix’s overall posture toward password sharing has stiffened in recent years as subscriber growth has slowed down. Although Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings once referred to password sharing as “something you have to learn to live with,” chief product officer Greg Peters said in 2019 that the company was looking at “consumer-friendly ways to push on the edges” of password sharing as it monitored the situation. But in lieu of more information, it’s hard to say how drastic a measure this might be. Netflix has not answered additional questions about what type of usage would trigger the test or what happens if users ignore the verification prompts. (We’ll update this story if we hear back.) Media companies in general have been extremely wary about cracking down on password sharing in a draconian way Read More …