When it comes to website optimization, even global enterprises with dedicated web teams can unintentionally trigger adverse behavior from visitors to their site if they don’t take psychology into account. All day long, humans are trapped in an endless tussle for control of their surroundings, from the big things to minutiae. Since our days dwelling in caves, we crave control because it offers comfort.

New technology from food tracking apps to Fitbits are obsessed with calculating the metrics of life. Death calculators, on the other hand, crunch the numbers on your probability of expiring. Now, researchers from a Swedish institute have created an online tool that calculates a person's risk of dying in the next five years, based largely on lifestyle habits that can have major effects -- good and bad -- on longevity. Their work appears this week in the medical journal The Lancet.

Yesterday, a new report confirmed that the FBI is flying unmarked surveillance planes over major US cities, using the cover of fake companies with names like “OBD Leasing” and “FVX Research”. Now it seems someone—though probably not the FBI—is posing as one of those companies, attempting to deny affiliation with the Feds via a hilariously bogus website, complete with stock photos.

My website is 20 years old today. I’m dictating these remarks into a tiny handheld device, not to prove a point, but because, with gorgeously ironic timing, my wired internet connection has gone out. It’s the kind of wired connection, offering the kind of speed, ‘most everyone reading this takes for granted today—a far cry from the 14.4 modem with which I built and tested the first version of this site, shipping it (if you could call it that) on May 31, 1995.

AdultFriendFinder users are finding themselves exposed in ways they never dreamed of when they signed up for the online hooking up service. According to reports, a hacker by the name of ROR[RG] hacked the site and stole all kinds of information about the site’s users. Everything from email and home addresses, to sexual preferences and whether the user was looking for relationships outside of their marriages have been lifted. This includes people who thought they deleted their accounts.

Visual design affects the user on a subconscious level, so your website must feel instantly familiar.

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In a decision handed down minutes ago the Stockholm District Court has ordered two key domains owned by The Pirate Bay to be seized. While the ruling means that the site will lose its famous ThePirateBay.se domain, don't expect the site to simply disappear. TPB informs TorrentFreak that they have plenty more domains left in store.

One of the most amazing things you can do with Wolfram Alpha is ask it what planes are overhead. If you're on your phone, it will pull your location, then cross reference that with a database of...

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A new XSS vulnerability discovered by the security firm Sucuri could put millions of WordPress websites at risk, thanks to a defect in a default theme.

One of the most important steps when launching any type of business these days (especially a startup) is to build a website to let everybody know about what your mission is and what you have to offer. So here’s a list of 10 great WordPress themes for startups and small businesses that will help you …

Pianist Bud Powell is the latest jazz legend to be honoured in a long standing tradition, with the latest WordPress version 4.2 donning the name “Powel...

Granted, WordPress rarely breaks down by itself … like a car does, or your fridge. But every once in a while, new security issues or bugs get discovered, some plugins start acting wonky and even the database itself needs some spring cleaning. So as great as WordPress is, it’s not a maintenance-free product. And the …

YouTube, the Web's de-facto video service, is turning 10 this year. The site has become so indispensable that it feels like a basic part of the Internet itself rather than a service that lives on top of it. YouTube is just the place to put videos, and it's used by everyone from individuals to billion-dollar companies. It's obvious to say, but YouTube revolutionized Web video.

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Looks like WordPress designers and developers never take a break. They are working all the time and they always transform their ideas into nice products. Almost every day a new WordPress theme is launched, and this should only encourage us to be just as productive in our work as well. If you want to see …

Below I’ve compiled a list of the best free website speed tests with their features. Enjoy! Pingdom Website Speed Test Link: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ Features Waterfall Display Performance Grade Page Analysis Server Response Code Load Time Analysis Size Analysis Request Analysis Historical Data For: Page Load Time Page Size and Request Count Page Speed Score   GTmetrix …

Navigating awful, 100 percent Flash-based sites is an experience many of us have had, and is unequivocally part of internet canon. And it's on the verge of going away forever. Let's take a quick trip down memory lane. It's 2006 and you're wondering where you should eat tonight. So you fire up your Gateway, ​flick on Internet Explorer, and Google some local restaurants...

This website tries to gamify The Elements, a book written by Euclid.