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Top 5 new features of Google Plus

November 3, 2015

Top 5 new features of Google Plus

Google announced 41 new features for Google+ at Google I/O 2013. Here are five worthwhile features of Google Plus that rolled out yesterday.

TIL: a Reddit dictionary

November 3, 2015

TIL: a Reddit dictionary

You need to understand the terms and abbreviations used by Redditors to understand the posts. Here's what you'll need to know.

Amazon.com website briefly offline, hackers claim credit

November 3, 2015

Amazon.com website briefly offline, hackers claim credit

Amazon.com’s homepage was briefly offline Thursday afternoon, a rare occurrence for the shopping giant.

Mega 101: everything you need to know

November 3, 2015

Mega 101: everything you need to know

Kim Dotcom, the man behind the file-sharing site Megaupload, launched a new site called Mega Sunday in New Zealand, which allows users to upload up to 50 gigabytes worth of files and store them -- and share them with other users.

November 3, 2015

What I learned from Wikipedia's most popular articles of 2012

A ranking of popular 2012 Wikipedia articles in different languages offers a fascinating window on global trends around the world—and some anomalies.

On the Internet, no one (still) knows you're a dog

November 3, 2015

On the Internet, no one (still) knows you're a dog

From vengeful restaurateurs to online entrepreneurs who threaten unhappy customers to celebs paid to push products, it's getting so that you can't trust anyone online. Not that you ever could.

Vice and Assassin’s Creed debut a web series looking at the 'Golden Age of Pirates'

November 3, 2015

Vice and Assassin’s Creed debut a web series looking at the 'Golden Age of Pirates'

Ubisoft and the magazine-turned-website-turned HBO TV show Vice have teamed up to create a new web series based on pirates, timed to coincide with 'Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.'

Google makes it harder to find porn -- and .xxx loves it

November 3, 2015

Google makes it harder to find porn -- and .xxx loves it

Google tweaked its search algorithm overnight, effectively making it much harder to find pornographic images. And the company responsible for the search.xxx website loves it.

Fossil Finder lets armchair archaeologists search for dinosaur bones in Africa

November 3, 2015

Fossil Finder lets armchair archaeologists search for dinosaur bones in Africa

Researchers at Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and the University of Bradford, UK want to find bones in Africa's Turkana Basin, and they're turning to drones and citizen science to help do it.

Can I bring my selfie stick? This website tells you

November 3, 2015

Can I bring my selfie stick? This website tells you

With an increasing number of venues and tourist sites slapping bans on selfie sticks, it's getting harder to know which places still accept them and which don't.