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Twitter showed up at CES and had plenty of news to share. However, on this Day 3 of CES, one of the more interesting stories is just who didn’t show up.  Let’s take a look at everything important that went down Wednesday at CES. Twitter’s tells us what’s happening Twitter had more than a few announcements to make at CES. One update could very well change how people use the microblogging platform altogether.  Another one: status updates and presence indicators (so you could see when someone is online or typing) pic.twitter.com/640x1tLo8J — Karissa Bell (@karissabe) January 9, 2019 In the coming weeks, Twitter will start publicly testing new features such as statuses and presence indicators. These new features will allow users to set their availability so others know when they are on Twitt

This post is part of our High-tech High series, which explores weed innovations, and our cultural relationship with cannabis, as legalization in several U.S. states, Canada, and Uruguay moves the market further out of the shadows. It's not easy being green — especially at CES, the world's largest consumer electronics convention. Marijuana tech companies are grumbling about how difficult it is to participate in CES 2019 because organizers will not allow them to exhibit. "We’re not allowed on the showroom floor, and it’s apparently because [organizers] say they haven’t created a category for cannabis vaporizers yet," says Jeff Brown, vice president of public policy and communications at PAX Labs, an electronic vaporizer company.  Read more...More about Ces, Marijuana, Weed, High Tech High, a

This post is part of our High-tech High series, which explores weed innovations, and our cultural relationship with cannabis, as legalization in several U.S. states, Canada, and Uruguay moves the market further out of the shadows. Marijuana has long been celebrated in the world of music and song. In the world of movies and TV, meanwhile, the majority of cannabis-loving characters tend to slot in somewhere between bumbling idiots and dangerous outcasts.  This divide in media representation stretches all the way back to 1936. That was the year a hit jazz song called "If You're a Viper" provided a positive view of marijuana use that still checks out ("you know you're high when your throat is dry / everything is dandy"). But it was also the year of Reefer Madness, the infamous propaganda film

This post is part of our High-tech High series, which explores weed innovations, and our cultural relationship with cannabis, as legalization in several U.S. states, Canada, and Uruguay moves the market further out of the shadows.  So your parents want to get stoned. First of all, and let's all say it together, hell yeah.  However, and this is the tricky part, it's been a while since they've smoked marijuana — if they ever smoked at all — and the weed landscape has changed radically over the last few decades. Thankfully, you, their loving child, are 100 percent here for them. It's time to answer the call and help your parents get appropriately ripped.   Read more...More about Marijuana, Weed, High Tech High, Watercooler, and Other Source: Marshable