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TV On Your Tech: Every Which Way to Watch TV Without Cable, Compared

Between network shows, streaming-service originals, and your favorite sports, it’s tough to find a TV option that lets you watch everything you care about — especially if you don’t want…

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Apr 15, 2017

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Backup Your Queer Tech To The Cloud

You should backup your computer. Here are four cloud services that’ll help you do just that.

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Apr 8, 2017

donald trump is not my president

technology

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Republican-Led Congress Just Gave Away Your Data, Here’s What You Can Do

The short answer: VPNs won’t save us, but it’s better than nothing.

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Mar 30, 2017

donald trump is not my president

queer your tech

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The Republican Push to Gut Internet Privacy Rules (and What You Can Do About It) Explained

Why Senate Joint Resolution 34 matters and what you can do about it.

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Mar 25, 2017

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Cee and Eli Do Lesbians Who Tech (for the First Time in Four Years!)

In which Autostraddle tech duo Cee and Eli revisit Lesbians Who Tech and have loads of thoughts about how it’s grown and where it might grow next.

cee —

Mar 18, 2017

Lists/Top 10s

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Four Soothing Games for When You Need to Plug In and Chill Out

Games with pretty graphics and awesome sound design that go nicely with tea and relaxation.

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Mar 11, 2017

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Apps For How We’re Working in 2017, The Year of Limited Bandwidth

The name of the game is clean and distraction-free. Apps that are especially good for working in these distracting times.

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Mar 4, 2017

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Will Uber’s Very Public Sexual Harassment Debacle Actually Change Things For Women in Tech?

Are we finally moving past the storytelling phase and into doing real things to combat sexism in the technology industry, or is this Uber fiasco more of the same?

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Feb 25, 2017

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5 Options for Banking Institutions (With Apps!) That Aren’t Funding DAPL

It can be tough to find a bank that’s not funding the Dakota Access Pipeline and that also still has the technology infrastructure you need. Here are a few places…

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Feb 18, 2017

donald trump is not my president

queer your tech

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How To Use The Internet To Contact Your Representatives (Even When the Phone Lines Are Jammed)

Not all of us have 12 hours to redial and redial and redial every single phone number for every single district office for every single one of our representatives, so…

Keely —

Feb 11, 2017

donald trump is not my president

queer your tech

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Handväska! For When You Just Need To Hit Some Virtual Nazis With a Purse

And all the profits from this game are going to CUNY-CLEAR right now, too.

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Feb 5, 2017

net neutrality

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This Sure Feels Like the Beginning of the End of Net Neutrality

Today, Trump’s new FCC chairman went to town on net neutrality and decided that four companies (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Comcast) have a total pass to divide up the internet.

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Feb 3, 2017