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Digital technologies have their secrets, and an increasing number of them are being exposed. A judge in Brazil, whose name is Paulo Cesar de Carvalho, has had it up to here with the Secret app and is ordering Apple to remove it in 10 days from August 19, which means that the company has to…
News articles have become a prominent part of the Facebook platform as the social media site pushes to keep its users on their site for needs beyond status updates. The “newsfeed” is now a hub for, well, actual news. An algorithm places news stories on your feed based on what Facebook thinks you like; the…
All vehicles, great and small, eventually need to have their windows cleaned, and the International Space Station is no different. Granted, given how clean space tends to be, they have to do it a lot less often than we do, but eventually enough gunk from engine firings and space dust do add up. Of course,…
The future is finally upon us, my friends. No longer bound by the physical world in their efforts to pass on their legacies down the family tree, residents of the state of Delaware can rest easy knowing that should they pass from this world, their children or grandchildren will inherit their Neopets. But all silliness aside, this…
With all of the information at your fingertips, it is easy to forget that the Internet isn’t tailored for all ages. But rumors are floating around the Internet that Google is going to make child friendly versions of its services. According to a news story on The Information (the full story requires subscription), the plan…
Surely you’ve seen the dozens of celebrity videos or shaky phone footage of your friends dumping buckets of ice over their heads and then calling out two or three other people to do the same. Bill Gates, Jimmy Fallon, Taylor Swift, and Chris Pratt have all dumped buckets of ice on their heads to speak…
Anyone paying attention in the Disney realm knew this was coming eventually. In fact, Disney has been teasing insiders since 2013’s D23 expo, where a whole bunch of crates “mysteriously appeared” from somewhere incredibly far away. The crates, all marked “Project Orange Harvest” were not-so-subtly Star Wars themed—indicators ranged from a roll of blueprints for a…
Google has only one natural predator apparently: sharks. In honor of Shark Week, the apex predators are seemingly targeting our delicious, delicious internet data by attacking Google’s underwater cables in the Pacific Ocean. These cables are a part of the $300 million trans-Pacific network Google is building. It will connect west coast cities like Los…
Bill Gates, while on camera, was watching the video that invited him and two other celebrities to compete against each other. The competition involved the participants in looking silly and comical for the sake of raising awareness for Lou Gehrig’s disease, which is also known as ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). Bill Gates was the dark…
Ever wonder about certain videos and recipes on the internet and if they work? Well, Geek Insider doesn’t want you to waste your time when you could be out doing something much more interesting; like participating in a pizza eating contest or having a guitar solo dual. So, let us ask you; does this little…
Volkswagen has released a series of advertisements that are a sobering reminder of the dangers of drunk driving. The series was designed by Costa Rican art director Fabio Obando. In the three separate advertisements, superheroes are shown either presumably unconscious or dead underneath or inside their heavily damaged vehicle, which crashed due to driver intoxication. Underneath the…
First of all, do not attempt this recipe. Do not try this at home! Maybe you have always wanted to make your own crystals and never got that cute little set as a child. Right now, there’s a particularly toxic recipe being passed around the internet that promises to let you grow your own crystals….
Apple Inc. released a statement with their diversity numbers Tuesday. The resulting breakdown showed little actual diversity. The report stated that 54 percent of Apple’s technology jobs in the United States are held by whites and a further 23 percent of these jobs are held by Asians. Additionally, the report showed that 80 percent of…
The human mind is an incredible piece of work. In the average human brain there are around 86 billion neurons and as many as 100 trillion synapses, or connections between neurons. This allows us to store and process a ton of data. Some estimates say that the human brain is able to hold more than…
Most people know BuzzFeed as the Denny’s of the Internet. It’s newsier than TMZ but less so than, say, The Washington Post. It’s a mixture of informative articles and fun little quizzes and a bunch of other things I don’t actually click on because I’m not that bored yet, mostly thanks to YouTube. But, BuzzFeed…