September 30, 2013

Poetry: smartphone-style

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This is a guest post written by Charlotte Kertrestel , do enjoy! “I wandered lonely as a cloud”...“texting on my new iPhone 5”. Sound fa...
September 23, 2013

Watch 24 hours of internet activity around the world in 8 seconds

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The animated map , from an anonymous researcher, is beautiful, mesmerizing — and made using highly illegal means, according to Peter Weber...
September 16, 2013

Yes, the Internet is making you a meaner person (so let's be nice!)

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Wow, according to an article by Chris Gayomali, 80 percent of one survey's participants say we're all becoming jerks. I have to say...
September 9, 2013

How to search like a spy: Google's secret hacks revealed

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Try: "filetype:xls site:za confidential" The National Security Agency in May of 2013 declassified a hefty 643-page research man...
September 2, 2013

Why Facebook makes breaking up even worse

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Don't underestimate the emotional pain of going from "In a Relationship" to "Single" says Emily Shire, oh man, is s...
August 26, 2013

Samsung's super-fast '5G' antenna: What you need to know

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Gigabyte-per-second download speeds? Yes, please, says Chris Gayomali. If the ability to download every season of Game of Thrones in a few...
August 19, 2013

Google vs. Sweden: The linguistic war over the word 'ogooglebar'

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The lovely, bouncy word ogooglebar means "something unable to be found on a search engine." And according to Arika Okrent, Google...
August 12, 2013

Rainbows and Unicorns: A Linguistic History

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It all seems to date back to a 19th-century French book. It's not all rainbows and butterflies, you know. Or rainbows and unicorns. Or ...
August 5, 2013

How 3-D Printers Might Help Us Build a Base on the Moon

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Mankind's quest to live among the stars gets a little more realistic with the advent of 3-D printing . If humanity's longtime dre...
July 29, 2013

3-D Printing: The Next Industrial Revolution

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Three-dimensional printers make manufacturing possible at home. Could they spell the end of mass production? What is 3-D printing? It’s ...
July 22, 2013

How to Travel the World... While Working!

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Vanessa Van Edwards' 6-step roadmap to taking the "workation" of your dreams is an inspiration! Check it out... "I take ...
July 15, 2013

Is J the sexiest letter?

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It certainly seems to be featured in an inordinate number of sex-specific words! According to Bruce Price, less than 1 percent of English ...
July 8, 2013

How You Can Connect Any Two Pages on the Internet in 19 clicks or less

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A Hungarian physicist finds that the web's organizing principles aren't all that different from "six degrees of Kevin Bacon....
July 1, 2013

The 5 Best Reactions to the TIME cover story on Millennials

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Millennials like listicles , right? Millennials stopped sexting and posting selfies just long enough this week to notice something curio...
June 24, 2013

Life in the Age of Internet Addiction

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The vast majority of the American population is mildly addicted to technology. Anyone who spends their day staring at screens can speak t...
June 17, 2013

Google's Government-Snooping Data Dump: By the Numbers

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The search giant is getting swamped by warrantless requests for users' information. "It may be easier than you think for governm...
June 10, 2013

10 Acronyms with Unintended Double Meanings

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The Wisconsin Tourism Federation realized in 2009 that geek-speak had made its acronym WTF pretty laughable. In 2010, New York City'...