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Google reveals our most popular 2013 New Year’s Resolution – to find love

Piers Dillon Scott7 years ago

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Google is mapping our 2013 New Year Resolutions and it appears that this year what we want to find most is love.

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A year of tweets – 2012’s most popular & important Twitter updates

Piers Dillon Scott7 years ago

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Twitter has released its review of 2012, showing the most popular and important tweets of an eventful year for the social network.

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Facebook’s Year in Review – Did you mention these topics on Facebook in 2012?

Piers Dillon Scott7 years ago

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Facebook has revealed its year end review of the most mentioned topics on the site as well as an application that allows you to create your own timeline review of 2012.

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A man falling from space & robots on other planets: Google’s global Zeitgeist reveals what we searched for in 2012

Piers Dillon Scott7 years ago

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Google has revealed what we searched for in 2012, in its annual Search Zeitgeist report. From Martian rovers to a man jumping from space, this was 2012 in search terms.

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Why don’t we tweet what we Google? Can end-of-year lists tell us about the year?

Piers Dillon Scott8 years ago

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Can Twitter's yearly trends and Google Zeitgeist really tell us about the past year?

Brains Byte Back

(Previously The Sociable Podcast) The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

The internet is full of trolls. This is nothing new. However, the tactics used by trolls can go way further than stupid comments on YouTube, and doxxing is an example of this.

If you are not familiar with the term doxxing, it is the publishing of private or identifying information, such as a home or work address, about a particular individual on the Internet, typically with malicious intent. While this might sound outright illegal, as it stands the law surrounding doxxing is limited and vague.

To get a better understanding of where the US law stands on this issue, what the future of doxxing might look like, and how you should respond if you are a victim, we are joined by Joseph Hoelscher, a criminal defense attorney and Managing Attorney of a Texas law firm, Hoelscher Gebbia Cepeda PLLC, who has worked on multiple doxxing cases in the past, from both sides, as clients who were charged with online harassment and with clients who were the victims of doxxing.

And for our side piece today, we have Computer Says LOL, where we have a stand-up comedy bit from Don McMillan, a technology engineer turned stand up comedian.