5 Reasons to Choose Vimeo Instead of YouTube

Two platforms clearly stand out when it comes to hosting online videos: YouTube and Vimeo. YouTube's clearly the big dog. At 800 million unique visitors per month, with roughly 72 hours of content being uploaded each minute, it's by far the most used video-sharing platform on the web. (It doesn't hurt that it's owned by Google, either.)...

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Oculus Rift Used to Simulate Decapitation by Guillotine

We've seen the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift take a 90-year old grandmother on a charming tour through Tuscany, but the device can also be used for other, much less pleasant experiences. In one very blatant example, users are going through the experience of being decapitated by a guillotine, a device used for executions, most famously in the 18th century during the French Revolution. This Oculus Rift experience,...

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Spotify Discover Now Available to Everyone

Spotify has made its "Discover" feature, which offers personalized music recommendations to users, available to all. Discover â€" originally announced in December 2012 â€" is showing users relevant artists and playlists, based on their current listening habits. It's also offering curated content from music sites and services such as Pitchfork,...

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How a Computer Model Could Help Fight Terrorism

When Justin Bieber tweets, 39,361,876 people (and counting) immediately jump to attention. But when one of those nearly 40 million people tweet, does the Beebs see it? Does he react at all? Communication among terrorist cells works much in the same way as Justin Bieber's Twitter account, according to mathematicians from Ryerson University in Toronto who have built a mathematical model of the way information spreads through these...

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Elon Musk Wants to Build an Electric Pickup Truck

How did you spend you Friday night? Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk spent his answering questions about paying back the government and musing about the next kind of electric vehicle he might like to make. After posting a number of tweets about his thoughts on proper taxation and how he did (PayPal and Zip2) and didn't make his...

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Would You Enrol Your Child in a LEGO School?

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen is the billionaire grandson of the founder of LEGO. He was born in the Danish town of Billund â€" a rural municipality in Jutland that Copenhagen residents refer to as "hicksville" â€" and has made it his mission, given his means, to turn the area into the "Capital of Children." In addition to sponsoring an airport, several community centers, a church, a theater and a library in Billund, Kirk Kristiansen...

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Who Are the 3 Big Winners in the Smartphone Market?

Alexis Madrigal for The Atlantic 2013-05-26 02:51:44 UTC Benedict Evans, a consultant at UK-based research firm Enders Analysis, has a great post describing the market for smartphones (and phones more broadly) in three charts and about 600 words. Admirable economy! Let me try to compress the argument even further. If...

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Former Thief Invents Theft-Proof ATMs From His Cell

Who knows security better than a thief? Romanian computer expert Valentin Boanta used to supply thieves with the skimmers they used to gather information to create fake bank cards and then steal cash from ATMs. Boanta, 33, was caught in 2009. And now, six months into his five-year sentence, the former thief has developed a technology that would safeguard ATMs from the very attacks in which he used to participate. "When I got...

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Learn About Overfishing With This Interactive Web Aquarium

The human race has had a profound effect on the planet. Unfortunately, it hasn't always been positive. One of the overlooked issues we've caused is overfishing. By fishing too much, we have diminished the population of fish in a way that, according to many scientists, can even threaten oceanic ecosystems. To highlight this issue, which...

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Facebook for Android: 10 Tips for Power Users

Facebook is a lot like crystal meth â€" it's highly addictive and will probably cause your teeth to fall out.* Android users are always one tap away from a snarky status update or a friend's vacation pics. SEE ALSO: 20 Things Your Most Annoying Friends Do on Facebook Facebook's Android app has come a long way from its humble beginnings....

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When to Back Off the Social Media Baby Train

We all have those Facebook friends who seem to make a living posting pictures and video clips of their kids. How cute is little Johnny eating a banana? Here’s Johnny at the playground going down the slide! Oh, poor Johnny is upset because mommy won’t give him another cookie. We get it, your kid is cute. But truth is, no one is really...

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