5 Ways to Use Technology to Protect Your Hearing

Human hearing has its limits, especially in noisy environments. While technology, like loud music and machinery, often causes hearing loss, it can also help prevent it. A good first step toward healthier ears is to learn how certain sounds affect them. Then you can explore technology, from headphones to apps, that protects your ears and
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Lemonade Is Using Technology to Bring Insurance Into This Century, and You Need to Try It

Very few people would suggest that insurance is an innovative, disruptive industry. If not for creative television ads, we may not even think about insurance companies at all except as an occasionally necessary pain point in our lives. From applying for coverage to filing a claim after suffering an accident, dealing with insurance companies is
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What Is Cloud Computing? How Does Cloud Technology Work?

“It’s in the cloud.” That common phrase still causes confusion. Here’s another one: “It’s a cloud service.” Why isn’t the service firmly rooted to the ground? Cloud computing is everywhere. Most major online services use cloud computing in some manner. Cloud computing powers Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, iCloud, Google Drive, and countless other day to day
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MakeUseOf Is Hiring Technology Writers

MakeUseOf is looking for freelance technology writers to cover Linux, Security, macOS, Programming, DIY, and/or Creative. MakeUseOf is a consumer technology website with 15 million monthly readers, mainly in the US, UK, and Canada. We’ve been teaching people how to make the best use of their digital tools since 2006. Our team consists of tech
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6 Ways to Make Vacations More Fun Using Technology

Most of us are lucky enough to enjoy at least one vacation a year. And there’s a new trend for taking a break from technology too. However, instead of looking at technology as something to be shunned, why not embrace it as something that can make your vacation even more fun? In this article, we
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This Underused Technology Can Help You With Paperwork

Pulling text out of images has never been easier than it is today thanks to optical character recognition (OCR) technology. OCR allows us to do all kinds of useful things, like searching for images using text queries, reproducing documents without typing them out by hand, and even converting handwritten text to digital text. But what
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