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10 Surprisingly Sturdy Items For Your Home Even You Can't Break (PHOTOS)
We've all been there. You're hosting a dinner party and the gorgeous glass pitcher crashes to the ground. Or your kids bumped into your favorite lamp while playing in the house (which you've told them...
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The Real Reason Facebook Bought WhatsApp
Like a line from The Social Network, Facebook is acquiring WhatsApp for $16 billion or so (you wanna know what's cool?). You may have seen the news bit. Let's put it in some perspective. I've analyzed...
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An Urban Librarian's Manifesto to SXSW Interactive
Hello from the quiet profession. Hello to all you beautiful dreamers, you benders of time and space, you visionaries of the bright technological future. We love your leaps forward, we love the things...
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Non-Profits and Social Media: 3 Steps to Defining Your Audience
I recently wrote about how non-profits and NGOs need a plan to guide their social media efforts. One of the first steps in that plan is determining exactly who you're trying to reach. An understanding...
View ArticleMost Air Travelers Support Ban Of Cell Phone Calls On Planes
WASHINGTON (AP) — It looks like the government is more conflicted about cellphones on planes than most travelers. Even as one federal agency considers allowing the calls, another now wants to make sure...
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'We Are All Barbie Girls' Illustrations By Colleen Clark Show What It Would...
How great would it be if Barbie came in all dress sizes, body shapes and ethnicities? That's what student and illustrator Colleen Clark thought when she was approached by Marie Claire South Africa to...
View ArticleUkraine Protester Olesya Zhukovska Tweeted After Being Shot In Neck
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — "I am dying," Olesya Zhukovska, a 21-year-old volunteer medic, wrote on Twitter, minutes after she got shot in the neck by a sniper's bullet as deadly clashes broke out in the...
View ArticleThe Disappointing Contradictions Of WhatsApp Being Acquired By Facebook
It's rare to find a company in Silicon Valley that refuses to turn its users' information into advertising revenue. Google, Microsoft, and Twitter all do it - the last few years have been an arms race...
View ArticleApple Security Flaw Could Allow Hackers To Intercept Emails
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21 (Reuters) - A major flaw in Apple Inc software for mobile devices could allow hackers to intercept email and other communications that are meant to be encrypted,...
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The Way We Used To Travel: 12 Ways Travel Has Changed In The Digital Age
Once upon a time, smartphones and tablets didn't exist. And travel (well, life, in general) was very different. Technology has revolutionized the way we travel, in ways both good and bad. We're feeling...
View ArticleTelecom Giants Paid Millions To 'Honor' Minority Lawmakers Before The Merger
WASHINGTON -- Comcast and Time Warner Cable are heading into the lobbying stage of their proposed merger with a strong hand. They boast large teams of lobbyists, a history of massive campaign...
View ArticleThese 20 Pokemon Prove Nintendo Is Out Of Ideas
The release of Pokemon X and Y in October 2013 introduced 70 new Pokemon, bringing the known total of Pokemon in the Pokedex to 719. That's a lot of cuddly monsters to create. Nintendo designers, you...
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'Space Elevators' Could Provide Safe & Efficient Cosmic Travel, Researchers Say
Is it time to push the "up" button on the space elevator? A space elevator consisting of an Earth-anchored tether that extends 62,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) into space could eventually provide...
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'Neknominate' Is a Stupid and Potentially Deadly Online Dare Game
Frame from a YouTube video on 'neknomination' The Irish Mirror calls it "sickening online drinking craze," and that's factually correct. "Nekominate," also known as neck and nominate, is a game that's...
View ArticleAir Force Plans To Launch 'Neighborhood Watch' Spy Satellite Program
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The United States plans to launch a pair of satellites to keep tabs on spacecraft from other countries orbiting 22,300 miles above the planet, as well...
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UH-OH: WhatsApp, Facebook's New $19 Billion App, Is Down (Update: It's Back)
This is probably not the best way to start off life under Facebook. WhatsApp, the simple messaging app that Facebook bought for an incredible $19 billion on Wednesday, is currently down due to server...
View ArticleOn the Timing of iOS's SSL Vulnerability and Apple's ‘Addition' to the NSA's...
Sure would be interesting to know who added that spurious line of code to the file. Conspiratorially, one could suppose the NSA planted the bug, through an employee mole, perhaps.
View ArticleComcast And Netflix Make A Deal To End Traffic Jam
(Reuters) - Comcast Corp customers are about to get improved streaming service from Netflix after the two companies announced on Sunday an agreement to give Netflix a direct connection to the broadband...
View ArticleThese Picture-Perfect Couples Found Love On Instagram
By Kristen Klein for Bridal Guide Finding love online certainly isn't a new concept; dating websites are a dime a dozen these days. But you can also find love where you least expect it — like on your...
View ArticleApple's 'Gotofail' Security Mess Extends To Mail, Twitter, iMessage, Facetime...
First, Apple revealed a critical bug in its implementation of encryption in iOS, requiring an emergency patch. Then researchers found the same bug is also included in Apple’s desktop OSX operating...
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