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How To Better Spot Clickbait Headlines [Video]


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The internet is full of clickbait headlines. Popular news organizations like Fox News and CNN both are buying into them and furthering the fuel of fake news. Babylon Bee, a well-known former Christian satire site, is crossing the line with clickbait over and over. But regularly you see clickbait online and it is making news articles harder and harder to trust.

So how do we know what is true? The video below shows how to better spot clickbait headlines and I even give one personal example of this afterward.

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Today’s Kids Will Never Know Trending Hashtag


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There is a new trend on Twitter that has regularly been hitting the United States and International trending list: “Today’s Kids Will Never Know Trending Hashtag” (#todayskidswillneverknow). I’ve done a little digging and found a bunch of tweets that I love the tech angle. I don’t buy the “we are better because we had to suffer” point of view, especially with tech. But the nostalgia is definitely fun.

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How Fiber Optics Connect The World’s Internet [Video]


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Ever wonder about how the Internet’s network works? It’s easy to understand and figure out a local internet in your home or church. You may have a couple of hundred feet of Ethernet cable and up to 15-20 wireless transmitters setup. But the actual network that connects the whole world is so much more than that.

The video below shows how fiber optics uses light to transmit data over long distances, and with integrated photonics, expands our virtual world beyond the internet. FYI, it gets very nerdy, very fast. I thought it fascinating. Anyways here’s how fiber optics connect the world’s Internet.

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Female Engineers Share Experiences In A Male-Dominated Field [Video]


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We are not new to the conversations of the lack of equality for women in technology, including church tech ministries. It’s been nine months since we approached the subject and I found this video from a while back via Buzzfeed on female engineers sharing their experiences in school and business with technology and the sexist discrimination they felt.

I wonder, have we made enough changes to this issue or was it a moment of awareness without any changes? If you know of any churches having made changes in the last 12 months to eliminate sexism in church tech, I’d love to hear about them in the comments below.

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What Happens When You Re-Upload a YouTube Video 1000 Times? [Video]


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Marques Brownlee is a YouTuber known for his engaging, honest, and informative tech reviews of new products. He’s a bit of a hype man for Elon Musk at times and seems to always be at the forefront of tech talk. But he recently did a video a little outside of his brand which was a fun look at how YouTube does compression on their videos. Here the question: “What happens when you re-upload a YouTube video?”  Still engaging, honest, and informative, but honestly kinda cool too.

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If Bible Characters Had iPhones [Video]


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We are unappologetically and unabashedly big fans of John Crist, so of course we needed to share this video with you guys of his comedy sketch of what it would be like if Bible characters had iPhones.

John Crist partners with Trey Kennedy to bring this fun almost improv feeling sketch for you. My favorite line? “How did Jesus get a blue check? He has 12 followers!”

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