A California man behind the website Silk Road, once a thriving online black market for the sale of heroin, cocaine, LSD and other drugs and illicit goods, was convicted on Wednesday of all seven counts related to the enterprise.
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Shifts and nuances in the way we communicate online.
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KazzaDrask Media
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"It’s hard for recent generations to comprehend that there was a time before the Internet. But, I remember it. And, I remember when I first began using it. I remember the invention of HTML for use on the World Wide Web. Everything had capital letters back then. Yes. I am that old. Apparently, in 1995, [...]" 
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Along with her son, the owner of a New Mexico company that holds the Nets.com domain name is behind pranks on the site that are intended to push the pro basketball team, the Brooklyn Nets, to pay big bucks to use the name on the team's website.
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Believe it or don't, AOL still has 2.2 million dial-up subscribers. Thanks in part to those who prefer to live like it’s 1996, AOL’s membership division posted $196 million in revenue this quarter. So, it still pays to dial up. What were you using that old landline for anyways?
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The former White House intern of blue dress fame kicked off her tweets with the simple message "#HereWeGo."
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Internet addiction may not be an official clinical diagnosis, but it is real. Just ask the man who's considered to be the first-ever patient addicted to Google Glass.
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For feel-good stories, emerging new websites like Thought Catalog, Upworthy and ViralNova aim to lift up, not take down.
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It's a sign of the times that we no longer get our information from musty old volumes and the daily papers hung on racks with poles. This fall the New York Public Library will seek to bridge broadband access gap between rich and poor and begin lending out wi-fi hotspots that will allow users to access high-speed Internet from their homes.
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Heartbleed has inspired a frenzy of fears and misinformation. Let’s take the air out of them.
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The Internet and globalization have challenged the myth of individuality (we are all one in 7 billion), while making connecting with others easier than ever. Normcore is a blank slate and open mind—it’s a look designed to play well with others. One fashion magazine has gone so far as to use Google street view maps to zoom in on ordinary-looking citizens in a bland middle-America communities to define this look.
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Social networks put identity at the center of our online lives. Is it too late to turn back? Secret, a new semi-anonymous confession app, is an app shows us, for the first time, what anonymity looks and feels like on a post-Facebook internet.
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A Facebook data scientist has laughed off recent research by Princeton University which claimed that the social network giant would lose 80% of its users in the next few years. According to the model the Princeton researchers used, Princeton University would be extinct by the end of the decade and our entire planet will vanish by 2060. That last prediction is based on declining searches for the word "air" on Google.
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The good news is that “password” is no longer the most-popular password on the Internet, according to the latest report from SplashData. The bad news is that there are 24 others that make a hacker's job easy.
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KazzaDrask Media's insight:
Four hours a day spent on email!? 84% of email is spam!? 16 million phishing emails sent per day!? No bueno.
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Pseudo-anonymous social apps don’t have any idea how to handle mental health...
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Inside the soul-crushing world of content moderation, where low-wage laborers soak up the worst of humanity, and keep it off your Facebook feed.
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If you thought everything you always wanted to know about sex was online, you may have been wrong...until now.
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Creative writing twists and turns past and present, reimagining beloved episodes of 'Little House on the Prairie' if a Starbucks had opened in Walnut Creek.
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On the Internet, women are the most dangerous game. Consider this: an attractive, young woman posing next to dead animals arouses more anger than a middle-aged, pot-bellied man doing the same.
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In her upcoming Vanity Fair tell-all, Monica Lewinsky raises questions about the "culture of humiliation" that has sprung up along with the rise of social media.
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The United States discreetly supported the creation of a website and SMS service that was, basically, a Cuban version of Twitter, the Associated Press reported Thursday. ZunZuneo, as it was called, permitted Cubans to broadcast short text messages to each other. At its peak, ZunZuneo had 40,000 users.
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It takes a certain combination to make an Internet hoax/myth/meme take flight. It must be just credible enough to be possible, usually paired with a small “wow! cool!” factor. Below are 10 popular untruths that have misled thousands.
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It's hard to imagine the world without it -- but let's try....
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