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Useful Apps that Help You Make Offline Friends

There are plenty of dating apps around, but what if you just want to look for friends?

By Andrew Braun – Aug 2, 2018

Coinlayer API: A Quick Way to Display Live Cryptocurrency Prices in Your Project

When you need to display live cryptocurrency prices on a project, you need a reliable API with lightning-quick responses and enterprise-level integration.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Aug 2, 2018

Microsoft Edge Adds “Web Authentication” Feature to Eliminate Passwords

Microsoft Edge is stepping up, making it so we never have to remember passwords again with Web Authentication for Microsoft Edge.

By Laura Tucker – Aug 1, 2018

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How Other Search Engines Compare to Google

If you need to find something on the Internet, you go to Google. But have you tried the other options? Let’s find out how other search engines fare in answering your questions.

By Andrew Braun – Jul 31, 2018

PayPal’s “Pay After Delivery:” What It Is and How to Turn It On or Off

PayPal has a “Pay After Delivery” feature that allows you to pay after you have collected the goods. Here is how it works and how to enable or disable it.

By Simon Batt – Jul 30, 2018

How to use Google’s New Continued Conversation Option

Saying “Okay, Google” to Google Home again and again can get tedious and annoying. The new Continued Conversation option can save you some trouble.

By Tracey Rosenberger – Jul 28, 2018

Why Website Password Restrictions Do Not Keep You Safe

Some websites may stop you when they see a “weak” password. However, their criteria for “safe passwords” is not going to keep you safe.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Jul 23, 2018

Foobar: Google’s Open-Secret Hiring Program

Google has a program called Foobar that flags people who go looking for code-related information, giving them coding challenges and occasionally hiring them.

By Andrew Braun – Jul 23, 2018

3 Ways to Extract Images from Google Docs

While Google Docs is useful, it has one downside. You can’t easily extract images from it. Here are three workarounds to extract images from Google Docs.

By Nicholas Godwin – Jul 19, 2018

Useful Tools You Can Use to Track Your Social Media Analytics

Planning for effective social media usage is where the use of social media analytics comes in. Here are some useful tools to track your social media efforts.

By Tracey Rosenberger – Jul 18, 2018

5 of the Best YouTube Thumbnail Makers You Can Use Online

A good YouTube thumbnail can entice more people to view your videos.

By Kenneth Kimari – Jul 18, 2018

What Exactly Is Facebook Doing With AI?

Facebook has been investing a lot of effort on artificial intelligence, and the sheer scale and rate at which AI is added into its products makes it worth a look.

By Andrew Braun – Jul 17, 2018

A More Current (2018) Update on Bitcoin’s Anonymity

This is the updated version of Bitcoin anonymity and what you can do to stay underground.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Jul 17, 2018

7 Useful WhatsApp Tricks You’re Probably Not Using

WhatsApp adds many new features with each update. The following are some useful WhatsApp tricks you are probably not aware of.

By Fabio Buckell – Jul 16, 2018

Why Do Service Websites Need Payment Info for Free Trials?

There are reasons why you need to provide payment info when you sign up for the free trials.

By Simon Batt – Jul 16, 2018

How to Create and Set Up Quizzes in Google Forms

You can do just about anything with Google. You can take notes, watch videos and create quizzes.

By Fabio Buckell – Jul 12, 2018

Captchas: Why We Need Them, How They’re Evolving, and How You Can Solve Them More Easily

As humans, we have to claim we’re not robots fairly often. But there’s more to captchas than meets the eye, and they’re far from foolproof.

By Andrew Braun – Jul 12, 2018

What Are Top-Level Domains (TLD) and How Does They Work?

Every web URL ends with something like .com, .net, etc. Those three letters are called Top Level Domains and are important to bring you to where you want to go.

By Fabio Buckell – Jul 5, 2018

After Cambridge Analytica, Facebook Still Has Data-Leaking Bugs

It only took a few months after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal before a hacker discovered a Facebook bug that could lead to more data leak.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Jun 29, 2018

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RSS Feeds: What Are They and Are They Still Relevant?

RSS feeds are still a fantastic tool for any news junkie, market-watcher, or social-media-averse individual.

By Andrew Braun – Jun 26, 2018

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A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle, and biologists have so far failed to identify any natural limit to how many times it can do this.

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Octopuses possess roughly 500 million neurons distributed across their body, with two-thirds located in their arms rather than their central brain, meaning each arm can taste, problem-solve, and react to stimuli independently of whatever the octopus is otherwise paying attention to.

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Explore the historic Roman bridge in lush Salamanca, Spain captured beautifully in daylight.

The Roman aqueduct at Segovia, built around the first century AD without mortar, still carried water into the 1970s, its 167 granite arches held together by nothing but the precise weight distribution of stones cut to fit each other within fractions of a millimeter.

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In 1843, Ada Lovelace described a brass-and-punched-card engine that could act on symbols as well as numbers, even composing music if harmony could be reduced to rules, inside seven translator’s notes three times longer than the paper itself

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ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

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