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The Growing Scourge of Cyberbullying, Part 2
2016-08-17 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
The digitization of everything has decreased the degrees of separation between everyone. While that interconnectedness has solved many problems, old and new, digitization has worsened one age-old problem: bullying. An online bullying epidemic is now pushing parents, teens, teachers and technology companies to try even harder to mitigate the misery inflicted on its victims.
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The Growing Scourge of Cyberbullying, Part 1
2016-08-10 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Smartphones are proliferating among adolescents, and so is cyberbullying. That's particularly worrisome due to its potential contribution to the No. 2 cause of teen death: suicide. About 26.3 percent of the middle- and high-school students who responded to a nine-school survey indicated that they'd been bullied in each of the eight years the poll was taken, researchers found.
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With the most slaves globally, India improves response to the scourge: study
2016-05-31 07:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India has the most slaves in the world with over 18 million people trapped in debt bondage, forced into marriage, sold to brothels or born into servitude, according to a global slavery index, which noted an improved government response to the issue. Forty percent of the world's estimated 45.8 million slaves are in India, although the scourge exists in all 167 nations surveyed by the Australian-based group Walk Free Foundation. Fiona David, head of global research at Walk Free, said while estimates...
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Stop the Selfie Stick Scourge
2015-03-30 22:03:29| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
Tourist attractions and tragedies are becoming overrun with a plague of 'selfie sticks.' Here's why they're popular, and why they need to be stopped.
Google Releases Consumers From the Scourge of Captcha
2014-12-04 19:53:20| TechNewsWorld
Google on Wednesday announced the no-Captcha reCaptcha, a kinder, gentler way of distinguishing human Web surfers from bots. The new system requires that users confirm their humanity by checking a box to the left of the statement "I'm not a robot." A privacy statement is displayed on the right. If checking the box doesn't work, a window containing distorted text will pop up.
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