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6 Practical Apps to Have On Your Smartphone

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SmartphonesAccording to surveys done by research firms in 2014, 90 % of Americans own a cell phone, 85 % say it’s a central part of their daily lives and 50 % use it to download apps. Apps are so useful that they have made themselves a “can’t do without” software for communication, information seeking and a host of other services. The downside is, with apps being made at a dizzying pace, we have suffered from app overload leading to confusion over what to install and uninstall.

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Malware and Viruses: How Infected Are We?

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The other day, I had a very confusing day, thanks to my laptop going nuts on me. I thought for sure that I got infected by a virus or some malware. No matter what search I did on Google, I always got redirected to search results for “biometrics”.

It didn’t stop there. When creating a new post, the title field and time stamp kept reverting to specific data. It.drove.me.nuts.

And I panicked. I immediately downloaded Avast for Mac and did a full system scan, but everything was clean. [Read more…] about Malware and Viruses: How Infected Are We?

Video Games Do Cause Aggression… If They Suck Out Loud

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Video Games Do Cause Aggression… If They Suck Out Loud (via Techdirt)

I think I’ve come to the realization that the debate over whether violent video games cause real-life violence is probably never going to end. Centuries from now, some new race of alien beings will be picking over humanity’s remains like some kind of…

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Google’s Nest Acquisition: How Will Your Privacy Be Affected by the Internet of Things?

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In the era of tech giants, privacy has almost become a luxury. This is because people are virtually connected to their computers or the Internet at all times. This has made social theorists quite concerned about the phenomenon known as the Internet of Things (IoT).

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IoT Defined

The Internet of Things is a term coined by Kevin Ashton during a 1999 supply-chain management presentation at Proctor & Gamble. For Ashton, IoT meant that the benefit of computers and the Internet can only come from the documentation of actions. Everything a person writes, clicks, downloads, consumes, uses, searches, and views on the Internet becomes not only a data profile on that person’s behavior, but data that constitutes the space of the Internet. The goal then is to document this data more and more fully, in the hope to be able to obtain a complete picture and scope for businesses to increase their efficiency and effectiveness toward consumers. [Read more…] about Google’s Nest Acquisition: How Will Your Privacy Be Affected by the Internet of Things?