Category: Technology

  • iPhone Technicians Can Tear Apart Your Phone In 10 Minutes

    Screws may not be something of great interest to many people, but there is a multitude of options that make them a pretty fascinating topic. Screws that are on such a small scale that you can’t use conventional tools to work on them, screws that have washers and other components built in, and much more.…

  • Rogue Wikipedia Editors Blackmail Small Businesses

    Rogue Wikipedia Editors Blackmail Small Businesses

    Blogs have become so much more than online rants. A study from ContentPLUS found that blogs are 63% more likely to influence the purchasing decisions of consumers than magazines are, while HubSpot discovered that companies that blog also get 55% more traffic, and have 434% more pages indexed in search engines. This means that bloggers can increase…

  • No One Really Says LOL Anymore, According to New Study

    No One Really Says LOL Anymore, According to New Study

    AOL Instant Messenger revolutionized how tweens and teens socialized. Not only did it probably help everyone learn to type faster than 225 words per minute — the minimum speed needed to become certified by the National Court Reporters Association — but it also popularized emoticons, and abbreviations. Nowadays, AIM is just a nostalgic relic. According…

  • Social Media Is Making Online Shopping More Convenient Than Ever

    Social Media Is Making Online Shopping More Convenient Than Ever

    Could online shopping be ruining the American economy as we know it? According to the latest research, even the most obscure industries — like health and beauty, for example — are being uprooted by small businesses that have capitalized on the growing trend of e-commerce. Business Insider reported that subscription services for household items have…

  • Will Google Decide the Next Presidential Election?

    Will Google Decide the Next Presidential Election?

    To say that the Internet has had a profound impact on the world would be to understate its significance. There are more than 100 billion global search engine inquiries conducted each month, connecting people to new businesses and services, giving them access to information — and determining the next presidential election. In a recent experiment,…

  • Free Internet Is Coming to Low-Income Areas Thanks to President Obama

    Free Internet Is Coming to Low-Income Areas Thanks to President Obama

    There are about 4.49 billion web pages on the Internet — but one in four people in the United States can’t access a single one at home. Worse, less than half of the poorest households in the U.S. have home internet access, according to a new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers.…

  • Steel Production in Great Lakes Rises by 6,000 Tons

    Steel Production in Great Lakes Rises by 6,000 Tons

    Last week, according to the Northwest Indiana Times, raw steel production in the Great Lakes rose to an output level of 628,000 tons. This will be the second week in a row that it’s made a steady increase, despite overall U.S. steel production dropping 2.82% in the same time span. Domestic raw steel production, in…

  • OPM Denies Liability in Government Data Breach Despite Obvious Neglect

    OPM Denies Liability in Government Data Breach Despite Obvious Neglect

    In early June, U.S. government officials admitted that there had been a data breach into federal computers, whereby employees’ personal information was possibly leaked — but officials conveniently neglected to admit that security-clearance information had been stolen as well, making it one of the largest thefts of government records. It was clear right from the…

  • Venezuela, No Longer an Oil Industry Leader, Agreed To Sell Its 50% Share in the Chalmette Refinery

    Venezuela, No Longer an Oil Industry Leader, Agreed To Sell Its 50% Share in the Chalmette Refinery

    The state of Venezuela’s oil industry — like the rest of the country, really — continued to decay after a recent announcement that ExxonMobil Corp. would be ending its partnership with Venezuela’s national oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PdVSA). The two corporations currently have a joint ownership on one particular refinery in Louisiana, but…

  • Adblock Browser for iOS and Android to Keep Away Ads

    Adblock Browser for iOS and Android to Keep Away Ads

    Even people who aren’t tech-savvy can rejoice at the latest development in phones. Eyeo, a company based in Georgia, has now integrated the Adblock add-on and made it a full-on browser. The company hopes this will be more helpful than traditional blocking add-ons, and that it will attract more users. Over half of people who…