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Sunday, January 4, 2015

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A Visual Look At The Life Of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

Posted: 03 Jan 2015 06:30 PM PST

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Mark Zuckerberg is a well-known individual, as he founded Facebook, one of the most popular sites on the entire Internet. But do you really know much about his life before he started the king of social networks? Sure, you could watch The Social Network and learn a bit, but some of that information is tweaked for entertainment value. If you’ve always wanted to know more about the man behind the website on which you spend a lot of time, this handy infographic will give you a quick overview, without the time commitment of reading a book or watching a movie! What fact did...

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20 Utterly Bizarre New Year’s Resolutions Made On Twitter [Weird & Wonderful Web]

Posted: 03 Jan 2015 05:30 PM PST

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We’re now well into the new year, which means you’ll have a good idea whether or not you’re going to be able to stick to your resolutions this time around. We wish you well. We know you have struggled in the past, which is why we have sought to help you stick to your new year’s resolutions using common sense, using online communities, and using Reddit. However, alongside the more serious attempts to improve oneself are the silly new year’s resolutions. Which is what we’re focusing on today in this week’s Weird & Wonderful Web. These are all utterly bizarre...

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2014’s Final Controversy: Sony Hack, The Interview & North Korea

Posted: 03 Jan 2015 07:30 AM PST

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Christmas 2014 is sure to be remembered as a terrible one for cyber security. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack took down the Playstation Network and Xbox Live for days. #anonymouspocalypse saw the release of some 13,000 passwords and credit card numbers. But the hack suffered by Sony Pictures, seemingly motivated by their comedy The Interview, is one that we’ll be talking about for weeks to come. What Happened? It started on November 24. Sony Pictures shut down their entire network after discovering that their systems had been compromised by a group calling themselves Guardians of Peace (#GOP)—employees were told not to...

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