Category: Technology

Palos Preserves Named the World’s Largest Urban Night Sky Place

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Palos Preserves Named the World’s Largest Urban Night Sky Place

Palos Preserves Named the World’s Largest Urban Night Sky Place Forest Preserves of Cook County and Adler Planetarium earn the Urban Night Sky Place designation, awarded by the International Dark-Sky Association, for a 6,662-acre site in Southwest Cook County August 25, 2021—The Forest Preserves of Cook County’s Palos Preserves has been designated the largest Urban…

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Cook County, Entertainment, Environment, Features, Government, News, Photos, Suburban Chicagoland, Technology

T-Mobile admits major data breach of customer information

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T-Mobile admits major data breach of customer information

T-Mobile admits major data breach of customer information T-Mobile notified hundreds of thousands of its customers on Friday August 20, 2021 that “a bad actor” breached their data files and obtained a wide range of information on T-Mobile customers that included social security information, names, addresses but not credit cards. The data breach apparently took…

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Difficulties with Macho Themes for WordPress

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Difficulties with Macho Themes for WordPress

Difficulties with Macho Themes for WordPress NewsMag from Macho Themes is a broken theme and you should avoid purchasing it from MachoThemes.com. The “Pro” Theme I purchased was a burden and took forever to load and offered very few options for design. By Ray Hanania I purchased Macho Themes NewsMag website hoping to update the…

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Business, plugins, Technology, WordPress

WordPress Update: Google’s SiteKit crashing websites across internet

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WordPress Update: Google’s SiteKit crashing websites across internet

WordPress Update: Google’s SiteKit crashing websites across internet By Ray Hanania Google’s once essential SiteKit, popular plugin for WordPress websites, has crashed this week taking down thousands of websites and making them inaccessible to their owners. Owners who try to access the site will be directed by email to go into “Recovery Mode” and you…

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Thousands turnout to honor oldest aerospace trailblazer Wally Funk in Grapevine, Texas

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Thousands turnout to honor oldest aerospace trailblazer Wally Funk in Grapevine, Texas

Thousands turnout to honor oldest aerospace trailblazer Wally Funk in Grapevine, Texas Parade, Presentation and Ice Cream Social Commemorate Historic Tourism Space Flight. Wally Funk is the oldest person ever to rocket into space. Thousands lined up today to honor hometown hero Wally Funk during a parade down Historic Main Street and a presentation on…

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Baby Boomers, Editors Pick, Features, General Topics, National, News, NewsWire, Seniors, Technology

Censorship is a weapon of tyranny not freedom

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Censorship is a weapon of tyranny not freedom

Censorship is a weapon of tyranny not freedom By Ray Hanania Applauding Censorship is horrible. Censorship is a disease that undermines freedom from within. Oppressors who hide behind the cloak of Democracy use censorship as a means to control the public by limiting what the public sees. Censorship restricts what the public hears and says,…

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Things that upset me and should upset you

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Things that upset me and should upset you

Things that upset me and should upset you I’m upset about almost everything from dentists and eye doctors to the racist campaign to ban Christopher Columbus. Wake up people. Don’t let the crazies run the insane asylum. Here’s my latest column By Ray Hanania I hate eye doctors and I hate dentists. They advertise how…

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Hundreds of Activities Part of New NerdFest 2021

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Hundreds of Activities Part of New NerdFest 2021

Hundreds of Activities Part of New NerdFest 2021 With your ticket to NerdFest 2021, you’ll have access to hundreds of activities happening at this new festival on August 27-29 in the Quad Cities.  Celebrating and supporting all the different nerd, geek, and fandom cultures, NerdFest 2021 takes place in the Quad Cities (IL/IA) bi-state regional…

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Entertainment, Events, Features, NewsWire, Suburban Chicagoland, Technology

Feds charge Twitter user with misleading voters in 2016 election

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Feds charge Twitter user with misleading voters in 2016 election

Feds charge Twitter user with misleading voters in 2016 election Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference Stemming from Voter Disinformation Campaign. Defendant Unlawfully Used Social Media to Deprive Individuals of Their Right to Vote A Florida man was arrested this morning on charges of conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 U.S. Presidential…

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Crime, elections, Government, National, News, Politics, Technology

Media and critics distort Trump’s role in DC protests

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Media and critics distort Trump’s role in DC protests Removing Trump right now would light a fuse and endanger the Union, supporters like Rick Manning argue. Read actual remarks President Trump gave to the DC Protestors that are being distorted and twisted for political purposes by the biased mainstream news media before Twitter censored the President…

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Redbox lists top movie rentals and streams for 2020

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Redbox lists top movie rentals and streams for 2020

Redbox lists top movie rentals and streams for 2020 With the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic suppressing entertainment and public activities during most of 2020, Redbox lists the movies that were most popular for their customers, through Redbox rentals and also through Redbox Streaming. Here are the lists of the Top 10 films of 2020 including rentals…

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Entertainment, Features, General Topics, Movies, Technology

Pappas: Get early look at next year’s property taxes

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Pappas: Get early look at next year’s property taxes

Pappas: Get early look at next year’s property taxes Pappas: Get early look at next year’s property taxes; Download your bill at cookcountytreasurer.com Next year’s First Installment Cook County property tax bills are available at cookcountytreasurer.com so that property owners can make payments before the end of this year or plan their finances for 2021,…

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Chicago, Cook County, Government, News, Suburban Chicagoland, Taxes, Technology

US Justice Department convicts Indian-based IRS scammer

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US Justice Department convicts Indian-based IRS scammer

US Justice Department convicts Indian-based IRS scammer Owner and Operator of India-Based Call Centers Sentenced to Prison for Scamming U.S. Victims out of Millions of Dollars. An Indian national was sentenced today to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release in the Southern District of Texas for his role in operating…

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Don’t let Facebook off the hook for their violations of your rights

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Don’t let Facebook off the hook for their violations of your rights

Don’t let Facebook off the hook for their violations of your rights By Ray Hanania Don’t let Facebook Off the Hook for violating your rights. If you live/lived in Illinois for 186 days straight in the past few years, you are eligible to receive a payment from a class action lawsuit settlement … All you…

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Zogby Poll shows Biden holds small but weak lead over Trump

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Zogby Poll shows Biden holds small but weak lead over Trump

Zogby Poll shows Biden holds small but weak lead over Trump New John Zogby Strategies/EMI Research Solutions Poll. Click here to get moe information A new poll of 1007 likely voters taken two days after the Republican National Convention reveals that former Vice President Joe Biden now leads President Donald Trump 48% to 42%, with…

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elections, Features, General Topics, National, News, Politics, Technology

Survey urges hotels use technology, reduce cleaning, enforce face masks, social distancing

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Survey urges hotels use technology, reduce cleaning, enforce face masks, social distancing

Survey urges hotels use technology, reduce cleaning, enforce face masks, social distancing Click HERE to download a one pager on the survey. A new national survey commissioned by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) conducted by Morning Consult shows that a number of improvements to health and sanitation protocol at U.S. hotels would have considerable…

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DVR-based Security camera systems need to be replaced

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DVR-based Security camera systems need to be replaced

DVR-based Security camera systems need to be replaced There are a lot of security camera systems to chose from but you should avoid the DVR-based systems like Swann, Q-See or Shadow because of the technical problems of “port forwarding” so that you can actually see your cameras remotely. Instead, select a cloud-based system like Blink…

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