Don’t Worry, It’s Not Just You Who Highlights Text For Fun

Don't Worry, It's Not Just You Who Highlights Text For Fun

In fact everybody’s at it. And, as Randall Munroe points out in today’s XKCD, we all know that it’s more fun when it looks pretty, too.

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What’s Your Take on Online Privacy?

What's Your Take on Online Privacy?

When it comes to Internet privacy, there’s a whole spectrum of opinions, all of which are valid in their own way. Where do you stand?

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If Data Was Stored on Punch Cards, How Much Space Would Google Need?

If Data Was Stored on Punch Cards, How Much Space Would Google Need?

Imagine if all the world’s data was still stored on punch cards: we’d be drowning in cardboard. But just how much exactly?

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Is There Anything More Irritating Than Animated Galleries?

Is There Anything More Irritating Than Animated Galleries?

Animated galleries are the blinking text of modern websites: they offend our eyes, but they’re all over the internet. Please, please, please make it stop. Please. [XKCD]

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Face It, Computers Are Better Than Us

Face It, Computers Are Better Than Us

Sometimes it feels like there’s nothing that computers can’t beat us at: chess, Jeopardy, curing cancer… hell, even cooking pudding. Randall Munroe sums it up nicely in today’s XKCD.

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Google Autocomplete Is an Even Weirder Place Than You Thought

Google Autocomplete Is an Even Weirder Place Than You Thought

Google autocomplete results have always been a font of joy; nowhere else is humanity’s curiosity and stupidity celebrated in such equal measure. But when you really start to comb through what it has to offer—as xkcd does today—it goes from amusing to disturbing and back again way quicker than you’d think.

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Somebody Save Us, We’re Drowning in Online Chat Systems

Somebody Save Us, We're Drowning in Online Chat Systems

Choice is a wonderful thing, but when it comes to digital communication, perhaps we’re starting to drown in a sea of instant message apps and chat clients.

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What to Do If You Really Hate Google Glass

What to Do If You Really Hate Google Glass

For all its promise of being the Next Big Thing in tech, when it comes to Google Glass, haters gotta hate. Still, if you’re gonna object to it, you may as well do it properly.

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Why You Should Never Just Abandon an Online Community

Why You Should Never Just Abandon an Online Community

Next time you leave an online community, spare a thought for your account, which will sit there accumulating messages, news and all other kinds of crap which you’ll never, ever see again.

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The Most Suspicious File of All

The Most Suspicious File of All

We’ve all done it. We’ve all clicked on a link that we probably shouldn’t have, confused a gremlin for a Mogwai. But if you ever click the mother of all suspicious links, you deserve whatever’s coming to you.

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