You've Seen This Photo A Million Times -- Now Learn The Story Behind It
This week, Microsoft wanted to subtly remind everyone how great and mighty it used to be. A new video released by the company offers the backstory of an iconic photo that almost certainly was your...
View ArticleNasdaq Just Plummeted And Everyone's Asking The Same Question
The stock market got completely kerslammered on Thursday, and the kerslammering might not be done. The punishment started on the Nasdaq, which sank 3.1 percent, its worst day since November 2011. The...
View ArticleFacebook Told Not To Mess With WhatsApp Privacy Settings
When Facebook agreed to acquire the popular messaging service WhatsApp, some feared Mark Zuckerberg's company would ignore privacy promises made to early WhatsApp users in the name of sweet, sweet data...
View ArticleGoogle Glass Going On Sale To Public For VERY Limited Time
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc will take online orders for its Glass wearable gadget on April 15, in its biggest push to get the $1,500 wraparound Web-ready glasses out to the U.S. public. For a...
View ArticleWhy Amazon Pays Some Workers Up To $5,000 To Quit
Hate your job? Then quit. In fact, we'll pay you to quit. That's the philosophy at Amazon's warehouses, according to a new letter by company CEO Jeff Bezos. Here's a snippet from Bezos' letter written...
View Article'Hail Hydra' Is The New Meme To Love (Or Hate)
Hail Hydra is the newest meme to hit the web, stemming from its use in the box-office smash "Captain America: The Winter Soldier." Viral doesn't even begin to describe the velocity with which it took...
View ArticleYour Facebook News Feed Is About To Get A Lot Less Annoying
Your News Feed is getting a major overhaul, according to a post on the Facebook Newsroom blog Thursday. The company announced several improvements to "reduce stories that people frequently tell us are...
View ArticleResearchers Use Math To Beat Jet Lag
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lots of apps claim they can help you fight jet lag. Now Michigan researchers say mathematical formulas suggest it's possible to adjust to new time zones a bit faster than previously...
View ArticleLab-Grown Vaginal Organs Successfully Implanted Into 4 Teens
Four teenage girls successfully received lab-grown vaginal organs that were engineered from their own muscle and epithelial cells, according to a study published in the journal The Lancet. The...
View ArticleThe Number One Myth of Hiring (and How You Can Overcome It)
Simply put, your staff IS your company. And your relative success or failure is frequently a result of the quality of your people. If you think you can hire mediocre people and train them to be great,...
View ArticleInvestigating Heartbleed -- An Independent Commission Is Vital
Co-authored by Dr. Stephen Bryen, Chairman Ziklag Systems The latest computer security disaster, called Heartbleed, came about after a "bug" was exposed in code put together by a volunteer group called...
View ArticleThe Heartbleed Bug Goes Even Deeper Than We Realized -- Here's What You...
Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, two of the biggest creators of Internet equipment, announced on Thursday that their products had been impacted by the Heartbleed bug. Routers, firewalls and switches...
View ArticleNSA Knew About And 'Exploited' Heartbleed For Years: Bloomberg
The Heartbleed bug just went from bad to worse to truly, utterly terrifying. The National Security Agency knew of the existence of the catastrophic bug for at least two years and kept it a secret from...
View ArticleNSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug, Exposing Consumers
The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather...
View ArticleSinger Mocked for 'Let's Get Social' Is Loving the Attention -- and Getting...
For the past two days, 22-year-old Mary McCoy has been mercilessly mocked and ridiculed by what feels like the entire internet -- and she says she's loving it. McCoy is the accidental "star" of a video...
View ArticleNasdaq Closes Below 4,000 As Tech Stocks Drop Again
NEW YORK (AP) — Technology stocks are dropping for a second day in a row as investors flee highflying Internet and biotechnology companies. The Nasdaq composite closed out its third losing week in a...
View ArticleThat Oscar Selfie Is Never Going To Go Away, Is It?
The 2014 Oscars' signature moment is now suitable for framing. Seattle artist Debbie Faas created a painting of the star-filled Academy Awards selfie, and it's hanging on a wall in Twitter's...
View ArticleFacebook and the Future of Global Governance
Facebook has become a critical platform for international exchange that allows people around the world to seek out peers with similar interests and to begin serious exchanges with them about how to...
View ArticleWhat It's Like to Be a Girl Who Codes
As a female techie, you experience unforgiving gender roles on a day to day basis. Here's my story. I'm 17 and I've been obsessed with computers from the moment my family got one. (This was back when...
View ArticleGot a Store? You Need an App for That
In this competitive marketplace, an app needs to jump off the screen and capture the user's attention to gain any recognition. This is especially true for shopping apps. Retailers that are not...
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