Information Technology
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How Google's driverless car stacks up against the competition
Jan 24, 2016 6:33 am - Carmakers from Tesla to Volkswagen are trying to make drivers obsolete, handing control of the wheel to a computer that can make intelligent decisions about when to turn...
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Her dying husband left her the house and car, but he forgot the Apple password
Jan 23, 2016 6:43 am - After Peggy Bush's husband, David, succumbed to lung cancer last August, she liked to play card games on their iPad to pass the time. The 72-year-old resident of Victori...
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Moms are the secret weapon of the fastest growing 'news' site of 2015
Jan 23, 2016 6:42 am - You have probably never heard of the LittleThings.com - and Little Things is really proud of that. They've only been around 15 months, too short a time to be a household...
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These are the worst passwords of 2015
Jan 23, 2016 6:41 am - Our passwords are bad, and we should feel bad about it: Every year, SplashData releases a list of the most popular passwords discovered in data breaches released online ...
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App reviews: DragonBox Algebra 5+, 1 Second Everyday
Jan 23, 2016 6:40 am - If "algebra" is a scary word in your house, then maybe it's time to try a different approach. DragonBox Algebra 5+ is the first in a series of mobile games that makes al...
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How to use Twitter without going insane
Jan 23, 2016 6:38 am - Over the past few weeks and months (and years, really) there have been a series of essays/think pieces about the growing irrelevance or uselessness of Twitter. Google "q...
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The brief life and sudden death of Stolen!, the app for trading people
Jan 23, 2016 6:37 am - Stolen!, the addicting game app that in its few weeks of life earned such accolades as "problematic" and "a privacy minefield" - that referred to itself in its own App S...
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Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?
Jan 23, 2016 6:36 am - Editor's note: Andrew Lih is an associate professor of journalism at American University and the author of the book "The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Cr...
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Review: This app has a clue about fashion
Jan 23, 2016 6:35 am - 1995 was a pivotal year in American fashion: Jennifer Aniston debuted "The Rachel" haircut on "Friends"; Johnnie Cochran taught us the importance of a well-fitting pair ...
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It's been six months since the Ashley Madison hack - has anything changed?
Jan 23, 2016 6:34 am - Six months ago today, a group of hackers calling themselves "The Impact Team" raided the user records and internal databases of infidelity dating site Ashley Madison. It...