Category: Big Tech

• This Is Your Brain on TikTok: And There Are Many, Many Questions

  I’ve been an avid reader my whole life. The kind of person who disappears into a book for an entire Sunday and resurfaces confused about what year it is. Reading has always been my favorite escape, the one thing I could count on to quiet my brain down. A few months ago, I realized I…

  blondebyte

  September 16, 2026

  Big Tech, social media, Tech, Tech Bros, Tech News, Technology, Women in Tech, WomeninTech

  blondebyte, Brain Rot, empowerment, mobile devices, social media, Tech

• Zuckerberg Almost Had to Testify, So Meta Wrote a Check Instead.

  Mark Zuckerberg was supposed to take the stand. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri had already testified for two days in an Oakland courtroom. And then, one day after Mosseri stepped down, Meta agreed to pay roughly $18 billion to make the whole case disappear before Zuckerberg ever had to answer a single question under oath. (CNN)…

  blondebyte

  September 3, 2026

  Big Tech, social media, Tech, Tech Addiction, Tech News, Technology

  #Accountability, #Facebook, #instagram, #Meta, #SocialMedia, blondebyte, education, empowerment, Tech

• The Internet Never Forgets — And Your Kids Never Agreed to That

  Somewhere on Facebook right now, a grandmother is posting a photo of her granddaughter in the bathtub, giggling, covered in bubbles up to her chin. It’s adorable. It’s the kind of photo people used to keep in a shoebox. She tags three friends, adds a heart emoji, and moves on with her day. In a…

  blondebyte

  July 15, 2026

  Big Tech, Internet, Sharenting, social media, Tech, Tech Addiction, Tech Bros, Women in Tech

  #WomeninTech, Algorithms, Big Tech, FaceBook, Family Vlogging, Instagram, Kids, Kids Can’t Consent, Sharenting, social media

• Progress at What Cost? The Data Center Moving In Next Door

  My neighbor Dave thinks the windowless beige building going up off the highway is an Amazon warehouse, but I haven’t corrected him. Partly because I don’t have the heart, and partly because the explanation of “that’s a data center that drinks more water in a day than our entire neighborhood does in a month, and…

  blondebyte

  June 23, 2026

  A.I., Artifical Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Big Tech, education, empowerment, Tech, Tech Bros, Tech News, tech support, Technology, WIT, Women, Women in Tech, WomeninTech

  #WomeninTech, AI, blondebyte, Data Centers, education, empowerment, Tech

• Help! Reese Witherspoon is Trying to Steal My New Boyfriend!

  

  Let me stop you right there, Reese. I love you and love your work. If Legally Blonde had been set in an Apple Store, It’d be my life story. But when you showed up on my feed announcing that you were going to teach women about AI – I need you to understand something important……

  blondebyte

  April 21, 2026

  #A.I.Tools, #WIT, A.I., Artifical Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, blondebyte, Reese Witherspoon, WIT, Women in Tech, WomeninTech

  #It’sTime, #It’sTimetoLearnAI, #WomeninTech, AI, Artificial Intelligence, blondebyte, education, empowerment, Reese Witherspoon, Tech, tech support

• AI Isn’t Taking Over the World (It Can’t Even Take Over My Inbox)

  AI Isn’t Taking Over the World (It Can’t Even Take Over My Inbox) Remember when calculators were going to make mathematicians obsolete? Or when spell check was going to destroy our writing skills? Well, here we are again, clutching our pearls over artificial intelligence like it’s some digital boogeyman ready to replace us all. Spoiler…

  blondebyte

  January 19, 2026

  #WIT, A.I., Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, blondebyte, Technology

  #AI, #AIisNotEvil, #ArtificalIntelligence, #MoreArtificialthanIntelligent, #nerdlogic, #WomeninTech, Artificial Intelligence, chatgpt, Technology, Writing

• How Women in Tech Can “Get to Yes” When Negotiating Their Next Promotion

  How Women in Tech Can “Get to Yes” When Negotiating Their Next Promotion Negotiating for a promotion can be an intimidating process, especially for a woman working in technology. You want to get the best deal possible, but you don’t want to come off as too pushy or aggressive. Whether you’re moving up the corporate…

  blondebyte

  February 22, 2023

  #WIT, Big Tech, breaking the glass ceiling, Communication, Developers, Female Empowerment, Gender Gap, Tech, Technology, WIT, Women, Women in Tech

  #BuiltByGirls, Big Tech, Empower, empowerment, Equal Pay, Gender Gap, negotiating, negotiation, Tech, Tech Industry, tech support, Technical, Technology, WIT, Women, Women in Tech

• Writing for the User Experience: The Three “E”s of Technical Writing

  

  As technical writers, we know that documentation is vital to the user experience but, the best technical writers know that the key to a great UX is to include the three “E”s: expectations, engagement, and empowerment. By keeping these three elements top-of-mind, technical writers can produce documentation that exceeds user expectations, engages them on a…

  blondebyte

  November 6, 2022

  Big Tech, Blogging, blondebyte, code, Communication, computers, Creativity, Customer Service, education, empowerment, End User, Engagement, Ethics, Expectation, Experience, innovation, Original Content, Productivity, Technical Writing, Technology, User, User Experience, UX, UX Writing

  Communication, Empower, empowerment, End User, Engagement, Expectations, Technical Writing, Technology, User, User Experience, UX, UX Writing

• Weekly Round Up 9/7/18

  The Blonde Byte’s weekly spotlight on her favorite technology news articles.

  blondebyte

  September 7, 2018

  Alexa, Big Tech, Blogging, education, FaceBook, FCC, Healthcare, IBM, Kardashian, Leadership, Productivity, Programmers, Silicon Valley, Siri, Smart Tech, Tech, Tech Addiction, Tech News, tech support, Twitter, Variety, Walmart, Watson, Weekly Round Up

  #WomeninTech, Apple, blondebyte, empowerment, Google

• Tales form the Orchard: What to expect from Apple’s September 12 ‘Gather round’ event

  The Blonde Byte’s Weekly spotlight on all things Apple, focuses on expectations for Apple’s upcoming Media Event on 9/12/18.

  blondebyte

  September 6, 2018

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