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Amazon Drones: Automated Convenience That’s Energy Efficient?

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When Amazon.com announced recently that it was planning to make deliveries by drones by 2015, it created quite a stir. How will it work? How will the drone find my apartment? Will my e-reader get left out in the rain? How much power would it take to carry large packages?

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The details on how drone automated delivery would work are somewhat sketchy right now. The proposed vehicles have a range of 10 miles and can carry weights up to 5 pounds, which includes 86% of Amazon’s packages. But the 10-mile range would no doubt limit deliveries to big cities. And even then, an MIT professor pointed out that the drones don’t have enough battery life to go 10 miles with a 5-pound package. While the idea suggests energy efficiency, the current numbers suggests otherwise. [Read more…] about Amazon Drones: Automated Convenience That’s Energy Efficient?

Keep Your Mind Active: 7 of the Best Free Puzzle Websites

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It’s frustrating and annoying when you’ve completed every single jigsaw in the house and every crossword is completed, well apart from those devilish cryptic clues that drive you insane! The weather is too foul to risk a trip to the shops so you’re stuck indoors with nothing but antique repeats on the TV. Or are you?

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The computer is more than just a hive of information on things you never even knew existed. [Read more…] about Keep Your Mind Active: 7 of the Best Free Puzzle Websites

Protecting Your Privacy: 5 Tips to Securing Your Privacy

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In most countries in the world, including the United States, privacy is generally not a legally protected right. The incidences when an invasion of privacy goes punished are usually when it is in conjunction with another crime, such as breaking and entering or theft. As a result, there are constant risks coming from every angle and an army of different people and corporations who are looking to invade your personal privacy, both physically and online. And since it is both hard to catch and hard to prosecute, it is largely up to us to protect our own privacy. Here are five ways in which you can help secure your privacy every day. [Read more…] about Protecting Your Privacy: 5 Tips to Securing Your Privacy

Kevin Rose Cooks Up New Blogging Platform, “Tiny”

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WordPress has long established itself as the go-to blogging platform, and with good reason. It is free. It is easy to use. It has a multitude of features. Newbies don’t have to be so tech savvy to use it. Experts have the freedom to play around with it as much as they want. Sites such as WP Themes have a plethora of themes any blogger (of any level) can pick from. It really is an all-in-one platform.
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Then again, when something has been dominant for a long time, new ideas often crop up to disrupt the scene. And this might just be what Kevin Rose of Digg fame might be on to. [Read more…] about Kevin Rose Cooks Up New Blogging Platform, “Tiny”

Resources To Boost an Online Professional’s Career

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Do you consider yourself an online professional?

I suppose we have to define that term more clearly. I use it to refer to people who primarily work on the Internet. Naturally, this covers a lot of ground – from online copywriting to blogging to social media to web design. If you fall under one (or more) of those groups, then this post is for you.

Any online professional will know that the landscape is always shifting and turning. Change is the name of the game, and the only way to stay on top is to always make sure that you keep tabs on your industry. You also need to make sure that your skills are updated. If you are an online professional who wants a career boost, here are some resources that you can make good use of. [Read more…] about Resources To Boost an Online Professional’s Career

Top 9 Sites from 2013

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The internet is a wonderful medium, one that has allowed us to be smarter, more informed, more involved, and lazier than ever. Billions of people worldwide are able to enjoy the internet on a daily basis, and as such, new sites are sprouting up constantly. Every so often, however, there is a site that will present something so unique and different that millions of people will want to enjoy it, causing it to spread across the web going “viral.” This year there were a number of sites that have caught national attention in the United States, whether for good or bad (we’re looking at you, Obamacare). Here are are 10 of the most popular sites of 2013. [Read more…] about Top 9 Sites from 2013