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Two weeks ago, as I was going home after work, I noticed four young guys walking behind me. I assumed that I was slowing them down and edged closer to the wall to let them pass through, only to realize that the boys were now intentionally blocking my way – ambling too slow for me to be able to walk…
Over 10,000 people have already been affected by the new ‘color change’ app that is circulating around Facebook according to Cheetah Mobile. While this new application makes the claim that you can change your Facebook profile to a variety of exciting colors, it is actually a scam. The virus coined as the “Facebook Color Scam”…
Torrents have an understandably bad rap for being the vessels of pirated or otherwise illegally obtained material, leaving them out of any kind of “legitimate” platforms and devices. But now, thanks to new iOS app called ‘Blue Downloader’, iPhone and iPad users can download torrents right to their devices, all for a cool $2.99 (£1.99)…
Actor and stand-up comedian Robin Williams was found dead in his California home early Monday afternoon. A statement released by the Marin County Sheriff’s Office labels the death “to be a suicide due to asphyxia.” Williams was 63. Williams’ sudden death brought forth an onslaught of support and sadness from news outlets and social media venues as the story…
Taking inspiration from Japan (duh), children’s action figures (aww), and even the Transformers movies (no comment), researchers at MIT and Harvard have actually created machines capable of transforming themselves from little more than a sheet of paper into a fully-fledged walking automaton. That’s right. These robots are self-assembling. Imagine how useful that technology would be…
As cars become more and more reliant on their computer chips, consumer groups and security experts have begun to worry about their vulnerability to cyberattacks. It could be a simple hack like using the car’s computer system to unlock a car, or more serious like actually hijacking a car even from a distance. Non-profit Hacking…
Livestreaming play sessions has been one of gaming’s biggest trends in recent years. Tackling dungeons and braving team deathmatches all while thousands of internet spectators watch and comment on your play has created much notoriety for streamers and freshly popular games and more and more people look to the internet for their entertainment. Much of…
Although the reasons why hackers do what they do are unknown, it is becoming a rising trend to look for security flaws and amass as much information as possible. The result is a sadistic library collection, and this time, the people who are declared to be the perpetrators come from the sort of groups that…
Ever since the rise of e-readers, Barnes & Noble has been in trouble. Their Nook is not nearly as popular as Amazon’s Kindle, and the same-day delivery service provided by Amazon also poses a threat to their shipment of online purchases. In attempt to take back the online market, Barnes & Noble is uniting with…
Rejoice, fellow humans on the internet! After what seems like an inordinately extended period of time, Google has finally announced that their excellent team is ready to roll out Gmail’s new “Unsubscribe” link feature. The news went out on Wednesday and states that this link, which will appear on the top of suspected spam messages, will make it twice as…
At the young age of fifteen, Cassidy Stay of Texas has lived horrors that no one could wish upon even their cruelest of enemies. Yet, in the face of imminent death and the loss of her loved ones, she proved to be a true Griffindor and moved J.K. Rowling into sending her a rare handwritten note. From the depths…
We all know that Wi-Fi is pretty ubiquitous. You use it at home, in coffee shops, certain fast food joints, hotels, the list goes on and on. Now imagine a device that foregoes having a battery, and is instead powered by Wi-Fi. Sounds pretty fantastic, right? Well the technology is still in its infancy, but…
If you’ve been debating about changing your e-mail or social networking account password, now would be a great time to make the switch. According to the Wisconsin-based firm called Hold Security, a Russian cyber-crime ring has recently acquired about 1.2 billion usernames and passwords from over 420,000 websites all around the globe. The identities of the affected websites remain unknown so…
A lot of the technology that is released into the public is sleek and thin, which slowly erodes the bulky gadgets of past eras. And solar technologies are no less different from the rest. The University of Sheffield, which is in England, announced through a press release that a number of their science departments collaborated…
When emergencies happen, a question most people learn the answer to from a very young age is: “Who you gonna call?” In the real world, sadly, the answer is, more often than not, not the Ghostbusters. Though somehow residents of Los Angeles, California managed to do something even sillier. What 911 Is For In real…