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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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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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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By 2019, Humans Will Be Outnumbered By Lego Minifigs

By 2019, Humans Will Be Outnumbered By Lego Minifigs

Since their introduction in 1978, Lego’s Minifigs have, um, reproduced at a rapid rate. In fact, the toymaker has been making the little fellas at such a pace that they’ll outnumber humans by 2019.

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It’s Amazing the Weird Crap You Learn From Hidden Autoplay Videos

It's Amazing the Weird Crap You Learn From Hidden Autoplay Videos

Wait, where is that audio coming from? I didn’t press play. Oh wait, it’s an autoplay video in one of the 30 or so browser tabs I have open and I have no chance in hell of finding it. Better just listen, then.

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The Size of Earthly Surfaces Directly Under Different Space Objects

The Size of Earthly Surfaces Directly Under Different Space Objects

If you’ve ever wondered how much of the Earths surface actually sits directly beneath the Sun at any given moment, then you probably also gave up on the math pretty quickly. Luckily, Randall Munroe didn’t.

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Tall Infographics Suck

Tall Infographics Suck

There’s an ever-increasing trend to display information in the form of tall, indecipherable infographics: long colorful panels that look like they contain a wealth of information, but don’t. That’s not a good thing.

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