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The World’s Last Internet Cafes
For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.
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Tucson's Molly Holzschlag, known as 'the fairy godmother of the web,' dead at 60
Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed "the fairy godmother of the web," has died at age 60.
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‘We’re Cut Off’: Rural Farmers Are Desperate For Broadband Internet
Millions of Americans live without reliable internet services. For farmers and food providers, this leaves them lagging behind competition and stuck with outdated equipment. Now, they’re looking to the Farm Bill for answers.
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‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video
“I've seen better acting by hostages in direct to DVD movies,” one anonymous worker wrote about the video.
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The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
The long read: From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify
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UFC Just Sent the Most Embarrassing DMCA Notice Ever
We've seen dozens of erroneous DMCA takedown notices in recent years, many of which have caused their senders embarrassment. However, notices sent to Google last week by an anti-piracy company working for the Ultimate Fighting Championship are the most cringe-worthy yet, and a direct result of a carpet-bombing approach to takedowns when a precision strike was needed.
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Are the NSA Revelations Changing How We Use the Internet?
A survey finds substantial shifts in user behavior and attitudes in recent weeks.
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Jobs, Robots, Capitalism, Inequality, And You
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe everything will be fine. Maybe the "widening gap between rich and poor" is temporary. Maybe the steady growth in the proportion of jobs that are part-time and/or low-paid will soon reverse.
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There's no containing the Pirate Bay
A recent study shows the limitations to cracking down on pirating sites: When one goes down, a dozen others spring up to take its place.
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Skype confirms 3D tech research
Skype has confirmed it has developed 3D video calls. The news was revealed by a senior executive in an exclusive interview with the BBC to mark Skype's 10th anniversary
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Security Researchers Prove That Dropbox Can Be Hacked
Two security researchers blew by Dropbox's security features and wrote a paper about how they did it.
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Facebook spammers make $200 million just posting links
Spammers posting links on Facebook fan pages to send people to third-party scam sites are earning $200m every year, according to calculations by a team of Italian security researchers who have investigated hundreds of thousands of posts on the social network.
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The NSA has its own team of elite hackers
According to a profile by Matthew M. Aid for Foreign Policy, it’s a highly secret but incredibly important NSA program that collects intelligence about foreign targets by hacking into their computers, stealing data, and monitoring communications.
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Snapchat names, aliases, phone numbers vulnerable
Australian researchers claim data can be discovered and harvested via the Snapchat Android and iOS API, even if an account is private.
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Who Will the Next Billion Internet Users Be?
Across the globe, 2.4 billion people are Internet users, a number that is expected to grow to 2.7 billion by the end of 2013. This expansion of the Internet shrinks the globe, bringing brands closer to new audiences in new areas.
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Americans hurt by server outages: We need to shop! We need to Facebook!
A survey shows that people are becoming more aware of servers going down. It's truly cramping their lifestyle.
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'Anonymous' to Reg hack: We know SEA leaders' names
Following the Syrian Electronic Army's attack on a Melbourne IT reseller which resulted in the temporary compromise of domain name records for targets as diverse as The New York Times and Twitter, a group claiming association with Anonymous now says it has compromised SEA databases and servers.
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A List of Blocked and Unsearchable Instagram Hashtags
Instagram blocks users from searching a number of hashtags. Read our unofficial list of banned and unsearchable hashtags on Instagram.
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How 'hate reads' are changing Web publishing
Recently, the Daily Beast ran a particularly troubling op-ed, written by a former inmate, illustrating how Chelsea Manning might fare in prison. It was a sensational piece, constructed around half-baked fantasies, and it was heavily edited after the online uproar began. There was only an editor’s note, which caused more people to click on it.
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The U.S. Should Use Cyber Weapons Against Assad
As we weigh taking action Syria, a strike using technology, rather than missiles, might be the best option.
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