Waze works by requiring its users to manually report what they see on the road: traffic jams, potholes, speed traps. Now the City of Los Angeles will ask its Wazers to be vigilant about reporting one more thing: The vehicles possibly involved in hit-and-run collisions. Read more…
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LA Is Turning Wazers Into Hit-and-Run Vigilantes
Archaeologists have excavated a house in Nazareth, Jesus’ home town, that dates back to the first century. Local Christians have long believed it was Jesus’ childhood home, but scientists say that’s impossible to know for sure. What the house reveals about life during Jesus’ childhood, however, is fascinating. Read more…
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This House in Nazareth Offers Hints About Jesus’ Childhood Town
wombatmobile writes For more than 5, 000 years, apiarists donned protective suits and lit bundles of grass to subdue swarms of angry bees while they robbed their hives of precious, golden honey. Now two Australian inventors have made harvesting honey as easy as turning a tap — literally. Cedar Anderson and his father Stuart have just been rewarded for a decades worth of inventing and refining with a $2 million overnight success on Indiegogo. Their Flow Hive coopts bees to produce honey in plastic cells that can be drained and restored by turning a handle, leaving the bees in situ and freeing apiarists from hours of smoke filled danger time every day. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Inventors Revolutionize Beekeeping
Don’t click any porn links on Facebook. Just don’t. It’s a good rule of thumb, but there’s an extra good reason right now. There’s a troubling type of porn-based malware that’s apparently infected over 110, 000 Facebook users in two days. And you could get the same Click Transmitted Disease. Read more…
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Beware: Porn-Based Malware Is Sweeping Across Facebook
Most of our discussions of catfishing are limited to the catfishers and catfishees, but there’s a third category we often forget about: the unwitting catfish-complicit, whose pictures and deets make the catfishing possible, and whose lives also get crappy and complicated when sucked into the mix. Read more…
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Woman Discovers Her Photos Have Been Used to Catfish Others for Years
rossgneumann writes Porn production companies are currently engaged in a scorched earth copyright infringement campaign against torrenting sites with URLs containing specific keywords and Github is getting caught in the crossfire. Several Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaints filed to Google by companies representing various porn companies in the last month alone have resulted in dozens of legitimate Github URLs being removed from the search engine’s results, TorrentFreak first reported.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
The IRS doesn’t often raise the amount that you can contribute to your 401(k), so when they do, we tend to take notice. As of 2015, you’ll be able to contribute an additional $500 to both your regular 401(k) as well as another $500 to catch-up contributions if you’re over 50. Read more…
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You Can Increase Your 401(k) Contribution by $500 Next Year
Someone is trying to make “The Snappening” happen. Read more…
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A Third-Party App May Have Leaked Tens of Thousand of Snapchat Photos
Text expanders (a.k.a., on your phone : “keyboard shortcuts” in iOS and “personal dictionary” in Android) are great timesavers : Tap a few keys, and instantly whole words or phrases are entered. Here’s a very efficient shortcut if you have multiple email addresses: Read more…
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Enter Your Email Address Quickly on Your Phone with the @@ Shortcut
Alienware is famous for two things. One: selling ever more powerful gaming computers. Two: making them look like they were designed by aliens. But its latest full-size desktop gaming PC isn’t just another box sculpted to look like it’s out of this world. In fact, the new Alienware Area-51 is trying to challenge the assumption that PC gamers need a “box” at all. Read more…
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The New Alienware Area-51 Is the Weirdest Gaming PC I’ve Ever Seen