WhatsApp With WhatsApp?
All the hub-bub concerning Facebook's recent acquisition of WhatsApp has been centered on Facebook and sticker prices. Lost in the discussion is the impact of the deal on WhatsApp and its messaging...
View ArticleThis $130,000 Motorcycle May Very Well Be The Coolest Bike Ever
Combine the talents of the man who designed the light cycles in the film “Tron: Legacy” with the storied past of sports car maker Lotus and you end up with the wild-looking Lotus C-01 motorcycle. (Just...
View ArticleReport: Spies Are Collecting Webcam Images In Bulk
Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents...
View ArticleWatch Jean-Claude Van Damme Perform His Split Stunt.. In Zero Gravity
Is Jean-Claude Van Damme going for "The Most Epic Man of the Year" award? He's already proved himself in the martial arts world, the movie industry and even in commercials when he did the epic splits...
View ArticleBoeing Black Smartphone Will Delete All Its Data If You Open Its Case
Boeing Co(BA.N) on Wednesday unveiled a smartphone that appears to come straight from a James Bond spy movie. In addition to encrypting calls, any attempt to open the casing of the Boeing Black...
View Article10 Thoughts in Defense of Funeral Selfies -- From a Funeral Director
As is often the case, we tend to get house calls in the middle of snow storms. And this past week was no different. I plowed out the funeral home's parking lot, pulled out the pick-up van and we were...
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You Could Soon Read An Entire Harry Potter Book In Under 90 Minutes With This...
Soon you could read all 309 pages of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in under 77 minutes. Yes, you. To get through it that quickly (a pace of 1,000 words a minute) you'll have to use an...
View ArticleNBC Struggled To Stop Thousands Of Illegally Posted Videos During Olympics...
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC said it worked with Olympic officials to stop some 45,000 instances of illegally posted video or pirate streams that surfaced to show competition during the Sochi games. The chase...
View ArticleTips to Keep Kids Safe Online
Social media sites have become a global information network that undoubtedly has many benefits. However, with this increased exposure, it is vital to make sure kids remain safe online. Educating...
View Article8 Indie Musicians Rocking Google+ Hangout Concerts
The internet is loaded with talented people, especially ones promoting themselves on social media. One cool tool that musicians have discovered is Hangouts On Air through Google+ and YouTube. Up to...
View ArticleDalai Lama Joins Instagram
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is now on Instagram. Tibet's spiritual leader joined the popular image-sharing site on February 1, 2014, and has already racked up over 15,000 followers. His bio says,...
View ArticleWe Could Never Give Up The Internet, But We Wouldn't Mind Ditching Facebook
Despite the unflattering portrait of a stressed-out, Internet-addled American, there's no denying this: We really, truly love the web. But there are some parts, like social media, that we could live...
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The Definitive Guide to Facebook Security
Social media is permeating every facet of our lives. It is extremely important to understand security and privacy settings with so much personal information becoming so accessible. Here is the...
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Social Media, Youth Mentoring: Tools to Fight Urban Violence
In many countries across the Global South, urban centers are also centers of crime and violence. This can take many shapes: gang violence, sexual assault, petty theft, drug trafficking, domestic...
View ArticleLaurie Kilmartin Is Live Tweeting Her Father's Last Days... And It Is...
“Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to...
View ArticleMan Charged With Hacking The Federal Reserve
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A British man has been charged with hacking into computer servers belonging to the U.S. Federal Reserve, and then widely disclosing personal information of people who use them....
View ArticleWatch This Man Age Over The Course Of Nearly 25 Years
We wish we had the ability to focus on a single project for as long as this guy has. Artist Karl Baden, who teaches photography at Boston College, has taken a photo of himself every single day since...
View ArticleLet's Just Be Real. Let's Be Ourselves
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. I have been told that I "keep my cards close to my chest", which I assume means that I don't reveal a lot about myself - I withhold myself or...
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11 Awesome Lego Facts That Will Make You Want To Break Out The Bricks Again
Back in 1998, LEGO (or as we casually refer to them, Legos) was one of the original toys to be inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame, and there are good reasons why. In a way, Legos can be seen...
View ArticleWoman Live-Tweets Being Trapped Inside Department Store
A young Toronto woman on an evening quest for fitted bed sheets at her local department store found herself locked inside after-hours Wednesday. It was just before 8 p.m. on Feb. 26 when Emily Keeler,...
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