Shira Ovide

4 days ago | nzherald.co.nz | Shira Ovide

Quitting Google search: DuckDuckGo proves a viable alternative. Photo / Getty ImagesThe experiment showed it’s possible to switch from Google search to DuckDuckGo without significant issues. DuckDuckGo offers similar features to Google but collects far less user data. Individual choices can challenge Google’s dominance, but broader change requires more than just personal actions. My experiment in ditching Google search felt like quitting coffee. The first few days, I was jittery.

5 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Shira Ovide

I broke up with Google search. It was surprisingly easy. (washingtonpost.com) I broke up with Google search. It was surprisingly easy. By Shira Ovide 2025050916300000 My experiment in ditching Google search felt like quitting coffee. The first few days, I was jittery. I kept double searching on Google and DuckDuckGo, the non-Google web search engine I was using, to check if Google gave me better results. Sometimes it did. Mostly it didn't.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Shira Ovide

Is a revolution coming to your iPhone apps, or a nothingburger? (washingtonpost.com) Is a revolution coming to your iPhone apps, or a nothingburger? By Shira Ovide 2025050616300000 Your iPhone apps are becoming a living laboratory for a potential new era in technology. Last week, a federal court judge said that Apple has used illegal, anticompetitive tactics to set artificially high fees for app makers in the United States.

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Shira Ovide

If you’ve watched videos from strangers on apps like TikTok and Instagram or recently used ChatGPT to create an action figure of yourself, you can trace it back to a single online moment in 2014 that’s having a comeback. That was the Ice Bucket Challenge, an online stunt and charity drive in which one person dumped icy water over their head, posted a video of it and dared someone else to do the same.

1 week ago | estadao.com.br | Shira Ovide

Se você já assistiu a vídeos de estranhos em aplicativos como TikTok e Instagram ou usou recentemente o ChatGPT para criar uma ilustração no estilo estúdio Ghibli de você mesmo, você pode culpar um único momento da internet: o Desafio do Balde de Gelo (ou Ice Bucket Challenge). Para quem não se lembra, o desafio começou com uma ação online de caridade em que uma pessoa jogou água gelada na cabeça, publicou um vídeo e desafiou outra pessoa a fazer o mesmo.