Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Article: Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor
Meet Premier, Newegg’s $49 answer to Amazon Prime. With free three-day shipping, discounted expedited shipping, and free returns, it’s a legitimate competitor to Amazon’s proven customer loyalty program. Premier of course lacks the video streaming library found on Prime. Newegg is the second larg...
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/05/newegg-launches-premier-50-amazon-prime-competitor/
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Article: The 'Sea View' Windows On This Cruise Ship Are Actually TV Screens
If you're going to go on a cruise, you'll likely be tempted to opt for a sea-view cabin. Unfortunately modern ships are so huge that not every room can have access to a window. Now Royal Caribbean has a solution - a terrifying, horrible solution. The cruise-line has just unveiled a new "virtual b...
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Article: Browsing on your Android phone just got safer, thanks to the EFF
In the wake of Edward Snowden's NSA revelations, finding ways to browse the internet more securely has become of paramount importance. In its mission to help netizens feel that little bit safer, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has long offered its HTTPS Everywhere add-on for desktop brow...
http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/05/firefox-for-android-https-everywhere/
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Tuesday, February 04, 2014
Inside the Fakes Factory: My Chat With a Viral Image Creator
It's an astounding sight: Buddha carved into a tall rock formation at the Ngyen Khag Taktsang Monastery in China. People talked breathlessly about how they visited the place, saw it with their own eyes. Except that they didn't. Because it's a fake
Posted by Augustine at 5:03 PM