Summer has come to an end, and as a result, a lot of us will be spending a lot more time inside. After all, you can say all you like about the winter adventures you will have in the snow, but if you’re honest, the majority of the next few months will be spent with a laptop, a snuggie, and a hot drink. So to help you pass the hours in front of your computer without going outside, here are some of the best winter websites. [Read more…] about 7 Websites You Need to Take Advantage of Now That Summer is Over
NSA harvests email contacts
NSA harvests email contacts (via Pando Daily)
On October 14, 2013WaPo, with another Snowden facilitated leak, reports that the NSA is gathering hundreds of millions of emails through people’s contact lists and instant messaging accounts. It’s using the emails to analyze foreign intelligence…
Wearable Tech Toys Will Grow Up to Change Everything
‘Wearable’ Tech Toys Will Grow Up to Change Everything (via slashdot)
Sales of tablets and other small form-factors are already bleeding the life out of the market for traditional PCs, as well as flooding the enterprise through wide-open BYOD programs. Now wearable computers threaten to break out from the margins of the…
Security Hardware For The Masses
Awesome Stuff: Security Hardware For The Masses (via Techdirt)
Securing your computer and phone are something that is increasingly important, especially in light of all of the stories about privacy intrusions we’ve been discussing the past few months. For the most part, the average person has tended to rely on…
Somehow Quora actually made quality scale. But can it still make us smarter on a smaller screen?
Somehow Quora actually made quality scale. But can it still make us smarter on a smaller screen? (via Pando Daily)
By Sarah Lacy On October 9, 2013Quora has barely thought about monetizing and has nowhere near the hype it once enjoyed, but give it credit for one thing: It has seemingly done the impossible. It has found a way to make very high quality user-generated…
Google Android Secure, Eric Schmidt Insists
Google Android Secure, Eric Schmidt Insists (via slashdot)
Google chairman (and former CEO) Eric Schmidt thinks that his company’s Android mobile operating system is “more secure than the iPhone,” according to a ZDNet reporter attending this year’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. Apple would probably take…