February 19, 2013

Twitter's Weird Plan to Become an Online Shopping Mall

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The popular social-messaging service is partnering with American Express to let you make purchases just by tweeting. Twitter , in its seemin...
February 1, 2013

The Dark Side of Meeting People Online

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Not a day goes by in New York City that I don't hear about some kind of abduction. But when it happens because people get to know each ...
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...