Sunny Dhillon Contributor Sunny Dhillon is a partner at Signia Venture Partners. More posts by this contributor Security tokens will be coming soon to an exchange near you Amazon’s next conquest will be apparel Animated characters are as old as human storytelling itself, dating back thousands of years to cave drawings that depict animals in […]
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Popsugar’s Twinning app is leaking everyone’s uploaded photos
I thought the worst thing about Popsugar’s Twinning tool was that it matched me with James Corden. Turns out, the hundreds of thousands of selfies uploaded to the tool can be downloaded by anyone who knows where to look. The popular photo matching tool taking the web by storm is fairly simple. “It analyzes a selfie […]
View More Popsugar’s Twinning app is leaking everyone’s uploaded photosThe internet is not having the new portion recommendation for fries, it’s pretty bleak
A professor out of Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health says that people should only be consuming 6 fries per serving…yes, 6Of course, the internet had something to say about it. Still, studies have shown a connection to eating fries and obes…
View More The internet is not having the new portion recommendation for fries, it’s pretty bleakTumblr announced a ban on adult content
Tumblr is cracking down on adult content, and the internet has something to say about itThe move comes after the iOS app was temporarily pulled from the app store after it was reported for child pornography. Read more…More about Tumblr, Mashab…
View More Tumblr announced a ban on adult contentMetacert’ Cryptonite can catch phishing links in your email
Metacert, founded by Paul Walsh, originally began as a way to watch chat rooms for fake Ethereum scams. Walsh, who was an early experimenter in cryptocurrencies, grew frustrated when he saw hackers dumping fake links into chat rooms, resulting in users regularly losing cash to scammers. Now Walsh has expanded his software to email. A […]
View More Metacert’ Cryptonite can catch phishing links in your emailSwiping right on virtual relationships
Sextech entrepreneur and advocate Bryony Cole is planning for a future when entire relationships exist in virtual reality.
View More Swiping right on virtual relationshipsCivil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in media
Civil, the two-year-old crypto startup that wants to save the journalism industry by leveraging the blockchain and cryptoeconomics, has partnered with the 172-year-old Associated Press to help the wire service stop bad actors from stealing its content. Civil, using its blockchain-enabled licensing mechanism, which is still in development, will help the AP track where its […]
View More Civil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in mediaAnonymous vows to take down Q
A cheerful video released by YourAnonNews suggests that the murky hacker collective called Anonymous is now after the murky deep state collective called Q. Q, to the uninitiated, is a 4Chan poster who claims to be connected deep inside the US government. Q claims to have high level clearance and posts in furtherance of the […]
View More Anonymous vows to take down QWhatsApp limits message forwarding in bid to reduce spam and misinformation
In a bid to cut down on the spread of false information and spam, WhatsApp recently added labels that indicate when a message has been forwarded. Now the company is sharpening that strategy by imposing limits on how many groups a message can be sent on to. Originally, users could forward messages on to multiple […]
View More WhatsApp limits message forwarding in bid to reduce spam and misinformationVirtual Instagram celebrity “Lil Miquela” has had her account hacked
The Instagram account for the virtual celebrity known as Lil Miquela has been hacked. The multi-racial fashionista and advocate for multiculturalism, whose account is followed by nearly 1 million people, has had “her” account taken over by another animated Instagram account holder named “Bermuda“. Welcome to the spring of 2018. The hack of the @Lilmiquela […]
View More Virtual Instagram celebrity “Lil Miquela” has had her account hacked10 endlessly fascinating websites to waste your time on
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The internet is a vast, wonderful trove of information. There’s so much to learn from a seemingly endless supply of resources. From video lectures about particle physics to step-by-step tutorials about starting urban farms — there are so many ways to learn more about, well, everything.
If you’re like a majority of people, the internet is also a deep rabbit hole of ways to waste time. If you’re looking for options to spend hours looking at baby animals or read about the world’s wildest conspiracy theories, look no further.
Here are 10 sites to waste time on when you’re bored with the rest of the world. Read more…
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View More 10 endlessly fascinating websites to waste your time onAuthor Brian Dear talks about the amazing PLATO computing system
Before Xerox Parc there was PLATO. This amazing computing system came to life in 1960 and by the 1970s was running a number of graphical terminals well before the rise of Xerox PARC and the Alto. This wild little system used some unique hardware …
View More Author Brian Dear talks about the amazing PLATO computing system