Testing football helmets, 1912. No idea how they’d know if they found a bad one!
Quote of the Day: “I realize that I’m generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don’t care.” – Dave Barry
30% of U.S. adults still don’t have broadband: Pew Research
70% of adults in the U.S. reported having broadband access.
Pew Research has released the results of a survey that shows how one of the more advanced countries in the world, the U.S., is still not quite there in leading by example: 20% of U.S. adults are still without broadband or smartphones for internet access. And 3% of people in the country still using dial-up connections.
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JustDelete.me makes deleting yourself from the internet easier
A new site called JustDelete.me makes vanishing from the web much, much easier.
It’s hard work to delete yourself from the internet. First, you have to decide where exactly you want to disappear — from social media sites to retailer databases — and then you have to figure out how you’re going to do all that.
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Brick and mortar stores are back, same-day delivery service is the reason
Traditional retailers who have retained their national chain of stores and built a web/mobile presence are actually in the best seat.
Shoppers are demanding faster and faster delivery on the items they order online, and organizations like Amazon and eBay have conditioned them to think that’s reasonable.
And you know what? It is.
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Dress for the job that you want, not for the job that you have!
Quote of the Day: “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin
NSA scans 75% of all U.S. internet traffic
The NSA’s surveillance network covers more Americans’ Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed.
The existence of several NSA programs that allow for far greater surveillance than the government has admitted to, and, importantly, detail how the government forces Internet service providers (ISPs) to hand over raw data, Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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20% of adults in the U.S. don’t use the internet
Around 20% of American adults who do not use the Internet at home, work and school, or by mobile device.
There has been a $7 billion effort by the Obama administration to increase internet access throughout the country. Perhaps most staggering, though, is that almost 20 percent of American adults still don’t use the internet at home, work, school, or through a mobile device — a statistic that has generally remained the same since 2009.
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Google now triple-encrypts all data in Google Cloud Storage
Until all pieces of the cloud — and the internet — are known secure, it’s hard to trust that any level of server-side encryption will completely do the job.
You would probably think that the NSA and other shadowy government agencies are the world’s biggest cloud proponents: all your data, all the time, in the cloud, where Prism and XKeyscore can, apparently, access it.
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Internet’s core getting bigger and faster to meet global bandwidth demand
The growing popularity of video streaming and the emergence of more and more connected devices means that our need for bandwidth is going to grow.
Thanks to a slew of new technologies, optical networks are getting bigger, beefier and faster. It has now become commonplace to hear about optical networks, mostly in the Internet’s backbone, supporting speeds of 100 gigabits per second (Gbps). And to add some context, in 1990 the state of the art was 2.5 Gbps.
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Repairing power lines in China. Apparently you can never have too many workers!
Quote of the Day: “Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.” — Lily Tomlin
51% of adults in the U.S. now bank online
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
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.