You Don’t Need Actual Google Glass to Say “OK, Glass”

You Don't Need Actual Google Glass to Say "OK, Glass"

In fact, it’s kind of quite funny to put on a regular pair of spectacles and pretend to talk to them while you just bumble on using your plain old cellphone.

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This Is How to Stop People Hijacking Your Details for Marketing

This Is How to Stop People Hijacking Your Details for Marketing

Obviously nobody wants their website full of abusive content cleverly hidden away in the last name field. So why not get creative?

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The Trustworthiness of Data, By File Extension

The Trustworthiness of Data, By File Extension

Just like your choice of language in email and the frequency with which you use emoticons says a lot about you, so does the the format in which you send your attachments.

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Do You Feel Smug or Embarrassed About Not Owning a TV?

Do You Feel Smug or Embarrassed About Not Owning a TV?

Maybe, like most people, you own a TV. But there’s a chance that, like me, you don’t. If that’s the case, how do you feel when you have to tell someone that’s the case?

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This animation explains what aging is and how we can live longer

Growing up sucks. Getting older is no fun. Having your body deteriorate to a shell of itself is embarrassing. But wrinkles and brittle bones are a fact of life. But why! PHD Comics and integrative Biologist Joao Pedro de Magalhaes explain in this nifty animated comic on what aging is and how we can use that understanding to extend our lifespan. My brain feels smarter, more wrinkled and I guess, older, just from watching it.

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You’re Using the Semicolon All Wrong

You're Using the Semicolon All Wrong

Wait, you use the semicolon for sentence construction? Are you for real? Surely, nobody really knows how to use that thing properly anymore. It’s probably for the best that it’s only ever used to form winky emoticons these days. [Doghouse Diaries]

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What Your Email Signature Says About You

What Your Email Signature Says About You

What you type in your email says a lot about the kind of person you are—but what you add at the bottom of every message can be just as revealing. Your email signature can speak volumes about your personality.

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The Truth About New Technologies

The Truth About New Technologies

Will [INSERT NEW TECHNOLOGY HERE] make us richer, poorer, dumber or smarter? Probably not. Will it ruin industry, arts, creativity and culture? Wouldn’t have thought so. Will it corrupt the young? Um, maybe.

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Massive Credential Hacks Are the Crosswords of the Future

Massive Credential Hacks Are the Crosswords of the Future

When hackers break into the databases of the great and good—like Adobe—they’re often left with an encrypted password and an unencrypted password hint. In other words, a giant, modern version of a crossword puzzle.

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20th Century Headlines Rewritten as Linkbait

20th Century Headlines Rewritten as Linkbait

The online headline is a strange thing indeed when you compare it to the more classical titles that filled the newspapers of the 20th century. So, what if you took major historic events of the last 100 years and rewrote them as linkbait?

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