Attention Sports Fans: Security Firms Are Monitoring Your Tweets About...
As Minnesota Vikings fans were getting ready for the final game at the Metrodome last December, officials at Whelan Security noticed social media chatter suggesting some of the faithful might rush the...
View ArticleTech Revamps in Prolific Places: Touch Screens in Museums, Libraries With APIs
When it comes to restoring historical buildings or cultural landmarks, there is a certain amount of sensitivity needed in regards to the preservation and essence of such institutions. Such anxieties...
View ArticleAmerican Media Brands Cast Web Over News in India
The Indian news cycle has been operating at a feverish pitch of late. The world's most populous democracy is about to choose a new government, politics is at its polarizing best, and a colorful cast of...
View ArticleAmazon Says It Has No Netflix Killer Coming
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amazon says it has no plans to offer a free streaming media service, addressing speculation ahead of a media event in New York next Wednesday. Spokeswoman Sally Fouts said Thursday...
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Lightning From Space, As Seen From The International Space Station
This is what lightning looks like from space. A pair of photographs released by NASA earlier this week shows white lightning as seen by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The image...
View ArticleAlmost All Of The World's Biggest News Organizations Have Been Targeted By...
By Jeremy Wagstaff SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Twenty-one of the world's top-25 news organizations have been the target of likely state-sponsored hacking attacks, according to research by two Google security...
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Buying Your Lunch Is A Terrible Idea. The End. No More Debates
Most days of the week I eat what is known colloquially as a "sad desk lunch." Typically it includes some turkey slices and spinach sandwiched between two pieces of bread slathered with mayonnaise....
View ArticleGOP Governors Get Behind Sheldon Adelson On Online Gambling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Republican governors who weren't invited to GOP super donor Sheldon Adelson's political gathering in Las Vegas this week are nonetheless trumpeting their agreement with him...
View ArticleHow Sleep Deprivation Drives The High Failure Rates Of Tech Startups
I work in my sleep now. I fall asleep most nights writing and rewriting opening lines and first paragraphs in my head. And every morning before I wake, I am somehow still writing sentences in my head,...
View ArticleThe Most Epic April Fools' Day Pranks Of All Time
While the exact origin of April Fools' Day is still largely undetermined, we can be sure of one thing: April Fools' pranks have been around for a very long time. Ambiguous references to the holiday...
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Air Force's X-37B Space Plane Shatters Orbital Endurance Record
The U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane has broken its own all-time endurance record in orbit after more than 470 days of circling the Earth on a mystery mission for the American military. The...
View ArticleSoyuz Spacecraft Docks With Space Station After Unexpected Glitch (VIDEO)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arriving fashionably late, a Russian spacecraft carrying three astronauts docked with the International Space Station Thursday evening 250 miles over Brazil. The crew aboard the...
View ArticleWATCH: 3 Secrets Behind Why YouTube Videos Go Viral
Rebecca Black. Double rainbows. Nyan cat. Why do some videos made by ordinary people become internet sensations? And what do the videos we love say about who we are? YouTube's Kevin Allocca breaks it...
View ArticleViral Inspiration
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. I can't help but think Kevin Allocca's TED Youth talk missed an opportunity. As I see it, the speech had the potential to accomplish at least 3...
View Article3 Ways To Make Your Business Go Viral
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. A mind-blowing 48 hours worth of videos are uploaded to youtube every single minute. As Kevin Allocca noted in his famous TED talk, there's only...
View ArticleColbert Takes On Morning News Show Pandering With His Own Ridiculous 'Youth'...
Hey, millennials, do you suddenly feel like the morning news is a little more hip, a little more now, a little more you? Well, that's because it is. Both the "Today Show" and now "GMA" have studio...
View ArticleCommunity Comes From Difference, Not Just Commonality
Nowadays, we all live in a fast-paced world; even those of us who drop-out or turn-off, live in this world. Fast is the air we breathe. We also live a in a highly "mobile" world -- we move around a lot...
View ArticleWill One Of These 10 Things Wipe Out Life On Earth?
Video listmaker Alltime10s gets its Armageddon on with "10 Things That Could Wipe Out Life On Earth." From that supervolcano in Yellowstone to artificial intelligence going rogue -- not to mention...
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These Lego Porsches May Be More Impressive Than The Real Cars
Famed Lego artist Nathan Sawaya may have some competition in Malte Dorowski. The 32-year-old brick builder from Germany has a penchant for constructing fantastic recreations of cars using Legos as a...
View ArticlePatent Reform Movement Shines a Light on Economic Development Opportunities
In an innovation economy, few things are as sacred and valuable as intellectual property. At a time when an idea can quickly become a product, and that product can quickly go to market and create the...
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