Dad Hits Teacher With Baseball Bat After 'Inappropriate' Texts Sent To Daughter
A Maryland dad likely won't see any charges after he struck a local teacher with a baseball bat. Police say the dad saw a series of texts on Thursday between the 42-year-old teacher and his daughter, a...
View ArticleInternet Giants Erect Barriers To Spy Agencies
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Just down the road from Google’s main campus here, engineers for the company are accelerating what has become the newest arms race in modern technology: They are making it far...
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Teens' Online Behavior Can Get Them in Trouble
Do you really know what your kids are doing all the time? Probably not, unless you’re a stalker (just kidding). But really, there has to be some element of trust and you can’t physically be everywhere...
View ArticleLook At The Insane Perks Google Interns Have That You Don't
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (AP) — Sitting in a kitchen stocked with free food, a handful of 20-something Google summer interns weigh their favorite perks, but where to begin? With bikes, buses,...
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Mary Meeker's Data Drives Video 2.0
She is truly the Internet's most analytical historian. It's easy to proclaim that change is in the air, but the thing about Mary Meeker is that she makes the pace and the acceleration of change so darn...
View ArticleIn Effort To Improve Air Quality, Scientists Explore Plan To Use Trees To...
FREEPORT, Texas (AP) — Before Houston and its suburbs were built, a dense forest naturally purified the coastal air along a stretch of the Texas Gulf Coast that grew thick with pecan, ash, live oak and...
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An 11-Year-Old Created This Gorgeous Animated Google Doodle
The illustration on Google's homepage on Monday may look pretty whimsical, but it's spotlighting a very serious issue: clean water. Not bad for an 11-year-old from Long Island. Audrey Zhang, a...
View ArticleSnapchat Wins Because You Have No Attention Span
What makes Snapchat so addictive, according to the standard refrain, is that it lets people send incriminating pictures guilt-free. Instead of us being self-destructive, it's the messages that...
View ArticleComputer Passes Turing Test By Imitating 13-Year-Old Boy, 'Eugene Goostman'
Alan Turing would have been proud. Or would he have been terrified? For the first time ever, a computer reportedly has passed the math genius's iconic Turing Test, The Guardian reported. The...
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Don't Hit Guys Who Fly Drones, Because They Are Definitely Recording You
A woman was arrested at a Connecticut beach after she was filmed striking a man who flew a quadcopter drone. She has been identified as 23-year-old Andrea Mears. In the early moments of a video...
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The Magic Behind Apps: An Interview With Qlik Tech CEO Lars Bjork
Lars Bjork, recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Technology, 2010 Over the past few years, there has been an explosion of applications, particularly in mobile. Everything...
View ArticleFans Of 'Portal' Are About To Be Really Jealous Of 'Action Movie Kid'
Supervillains beware! Action Movie Kid is at it again. 3-year-old James already made headlines with his special effects-filled adventures, compliments of his Dreamworks animator dad, Daniel Hashimoto....
View ArticleFugitive from the Online Dating Site
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. Finding the love of our lives is not simple. US Marshals arguably have greater success tracking down fugitives than some singles have finding a...
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4 Great Golf Gifts for Father's Day
GameGolf: ShotLink for Everyman Game Golf's digital tracking system is the next best thing to having a team of volunteers following me around to register the distance and location of every shot. In...
View ArticleFAA OKs Commercial Drone Flights Over Land
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday it has granted the first permission for commercial drone flights over land, the latest effort by the agency to show it is loosening...
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9 Tell Tale Signs Your Website Needs a Redesign
By Anneke Steenkamp Even though we all have our personal style and preferences, when it comes to the professional representation of your business, there are certain aspects of design that could either...
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For Germans, Google Is a Digital Feudal Lord
Germans are not at a loss for figurative language when they put their fear of Google into words. Some called it "the kraken," others talk of "digital feudal lords" demanding "bridge tolls" from other...
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How to Make Sure Urban Slum-Dwellers Take Their Medicine
How do you make drugs work on people who don't take them? How do you help people decide whether to buy more medicine or better clothes? That was part of the puzzle my team members and I were trying to...
View ArticleThe Workplace Revolution: Adding Company Culture to the Mix
Over the past decade, the definition of a "traditional" workplace has radically changed -- standing desks, open offices, walking meetings and remote workers have transcended the workplace beyond the...
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How Tinder Can Work as a Travel App (Yes, Really)
By Jon Chase, CNTraveler.com There's no question that most travel experiences are better with a healthy amount of pre-planning. But leaving room for some spontaneity always feels more rewarding -- or,...
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