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Tracking tech trends and how the internet is changing our lives.
January 21, 2013
The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2012
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Happy New Year, it's time to change your passwords again. You can't go anywhere online without a password these days. Want to acce...
January 14, 2013
Your Life Is Fully Mobile: We walk, talk and sleep with our phones, but are we more or less connected?
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Just as remarkable as the power of mobility, over everything from love to learning to global development, is how fast it all happened. N...
January 7, 2013
How Companies and Cops Snoop on Your Digital Life – Whether You Realize It or Not!
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If someone wanted to create a global system for tracking human beings and collecting information about them, it would look a lot like the ...
December 31, 2012
Happy New Year: Now Measure My Results, Not My Hours
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Too many businesses judge an employee’s performance by hours worked rather than by value created. It's time to get with the program and...
December 24, 2012
My Digital Nightmare: A Hacker Stole My Family Photos and Upended My Life, and It Could Easily Happen to You
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In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed, said Mat Honan of Wired . "First my Google account was taken over, the...
December 17, 2012
Virtual Princeton: A Guide to Free Online Ivy League Classes
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Elite universities are opening their classrooms' doors to anyone with an Internet connection — for free! The company Coursera has teame...
December 10, 2012
How Teens’ Texts Lead to Unsafe Sex
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Teenagers who engage in sexting —sending sexually explicit texts—are far more likely to begin having intercourse at an early age and engag...
December 3, 2012
The Digital 100: The World's Most Valuable Private Tech Companies in 2012
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Business Insider evaluated private tech companies and ranked the top 100 by value. Their rankings are based on several metrics, including...
November 26, 2012
How to Clean Up Your Online Image
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You would never let your front porch or storefront become dilapidated. You would never hand out a crumpled resume or business card. And y...
November 19, 2012
Meet Baxter: The Humanoid Robot to Revolutionize U.S. Manufacturing
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Rethink Robotics unveils Baxter, a robot that can work alongside humans. According to Valentin Schmid at The Epoch Times , Baxter could re...
November 12, 2012
U.S. is Tightening Web Privacy Rule to Protect Young
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Federal regulators are about to take the biggest steps in more than a decade to protect children online. According to Natasha Singer of The...
November 5, 2012
Squishy Robots That Can Hide and Seek
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Researchers have built soft-bodied robots that can either blend into or stand out in their environment by changing their color. According t...
October 29, 2012
Naive Online Daters Turn into Drug Mules
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Seriously? YCMTSU ! One fine day, Sharon's and Catherine's online dates , called "Frank" and "Marc," asked them...
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