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Benedivz – now you can have webcam sex for charity

August 15, 2013

Benedivz performers donate a percentage of proceeds to a charity of their choice.

Benedivz has debuted its site where live webcam entertainers broadcast to viewers who buy “helping-handz credits” to see live performances and “requested” activities. Performers donate a percentage of proceeds to a charity of their choice. Benevidz will match 50 percent of their earnings and donate that amount to their selected cause. The company is currently raising $15,000 on crowdfunding site Rockethub for this noble endeavor.

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Top 28 social media statistics for 2013

August 13, 2013

Not just a trendy word anymore, social media marketing is fast becoming and in some cases already is a viable acquisition channel for most businesses. In fact, Hubspot reports that 70% of business-to-consumer marketers have acquired a customer through Facebook.

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51% of adults in the U.S. now bank online

August 9, 2013

Sixty-one percent of Internet users bank online.

Sixty-one percent of Internet users in the US now access their bank accounts on the Web. While, 35 percent of cell phone owners in the US bank using their mobile phones.

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The cybercrime of things coming soon

August 9, 2013

Once everything in your house contains a computer, everything in your house can be hacked.

Security researchers have found that one of the problems with having a “smart” home is that some day, it might be smart enough to attack you. Everything we own, from our refrigerators and egg cartons to our cars and thermostats, will some day be outfitted with internet-connected sensors and control systems, allowing all our possessions, and ultimately all of our civic infrastructure, to communicate with each other and be controlled remotely.

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Codementor: An open marketplace where developers can ask experts for one-on-one programming help

August 5, 2013

Codementor

All programmers are familiar with this scenario: you are coding alone, only to have something go wrong and no one to ask for help. Codementor wants to help developers by providing an open marketplace where they can ask experts for one-on-one programming and design help.

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Future NSA abuses are highly likely

August 2, 2013

NSA headquarters.

The latest scoop from The Guardian’s concerns the ability of National Security Agency analysts to search vast databases of emails, online chats, and web browsing histories, among other online activity.

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Top 100 tools for coders and developers

August 2, 2013

The world runs on coding these days.

Do you want job security? Then, become a developer. Do you want fame and fortune? Then, learn to code. These coding resources are comprised of many startups as well as established sites and services and they are sure to help you take your game to the next level.

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XKeyscore – new NSA tool sees “nearly everything” you do online

August 1, 2013

The XKeyscore software collects the contents and metadata from emails, online chats and Web browsing history for virtually anyone.

A Guardian report has revealed that NSA training materials openly said that the XKeyscore system, which it says formed a significant part of its PRISM surveillance activities disclosed by Edward Snowden last month, collected massive amounts of data, including the contents and the metadata of emails and chats.

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When MOOCs profit, who pays?

July 31, 2013

A typical MOOC is an online course open to people all over the globe via the Internet.

MOOCs are massive open online courses that have been heralded as an inevitable transformation in higher education. They have been called a revolution, a boom, and, a “disruption” – a term that at first invokes a welcome alternative to the stagnation and elitism of the American university.

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What happens in 60 seconds on the internet

July 31, 2013

Have you ever thought about your activity on the internet at any given moment? You could very easily be jumping from Twitter to Facebook, listening to Spotify, shooting off an email, downloading a movie, reading a news site, Googling background info to better understand aforementioned news site, and that’s just on a slow day. Now extrapolate that out to the billions of people online every minute of every day. (Infographic)

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The GeoWeb will change consumer and business behavior

July 31, 2013

Maps and geography have helped humans understand their surroundings in the context of their neighbors, their town, their country, the Earth, and the Universe for about the past 2,000 years. For about 400 years, since Mercator figured out how to portray the curved Earth on a flat piece of paper, not much changed in the world of geography — until the launch of 24 GPS satellites by the U.S. Department of Defense about 30 years ago.

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Top 17 most expensive iPhone and iPad apps in the world

July 30, 2013

The App Store can be a really big software market for a number of different industries.

Free and cheap apps dominate Apple’s App Store. However, there are more expensive options in the store, too. There are some super-expensive apps on Apple’s App Store.

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