How You Get Hacked at Starbucks - Infographic

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For those who frequently use the free public Wi-Fi in coffee shops such as Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts, you're likely already aware of how easy it is for hackers to steal your personal and financial information over the shared network.

But what you may not realize is how cybercriminals could gain access to sensitive data in other ways that might not be on your radar.

According to ThreatMetrix, a provider of cybercrime prevention solutions, some hackers even leave malicious USB drives on tables for curious customers to plug into their devices. This allows them to retrieve personal information and even social network passwords. Although this may seem unlikely, ThreatMetrix says the scenario actually occurs...

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Are we carrying too many devices?

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It’s a gadget-overload world. Society and advancing technologies are making us more gadget heavy than ever, by far. It’s not even close. A recent study showed that we carry 2.9 gadgets on average. To put that into perspective, we have more gadgets on us at any one time than most of have arms.

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Will Twitter file a secret IPO?

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Twitter is expected to file for an initial public offering in late 2013 or early 2014. That much is widely known. Less attention has been paid to whether Twitter will make a normal IPO filing or if, as new rules allow, the company will try to go public in secret.

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, signed into US law last year, lets firms with less than $1 billion in annual revenue keep their IPO filings confidential up until three weeks before they start marketing shares to investors in a “road show.” It was largely proposed and pushed by venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, who said it would stem a decline in US IPOs by reducing the burdens of going public felt by smaller firms. Ordinarily, a company has to make public a lengthy discussion of its financials, strategy, and risks months before an IPO, giving investors—and competitors—more of a chance to evaluate the stock.

In the first nine months since the JOBS Act went into effect, 59% of eligible companies availed themselves of the option to keep their IPO filings secret, according to an Ernst & Young study reported today by the Wall Street Journal. Twitter is likely to be eligible: It made $350 million in revenue last year, and it’s not expected to hit $1 billion until 2014.

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New MySpace Is Now Open to the Public

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After six months of beta testing, the new MySpace is finally opening its doors to the public: now, anyone who wants an account can trot over to the site and sign up.

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50 Impressionable Public Awareness Poster Ads

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When we think of advertisements, we tend to negatively associate them with mind manipulation of the masses for business profiteering. We tend to forget that advertisements can be used for nobler causes that deal with issues closer to home and to our hearts. I’m talking about using these ads to raise the public awareness on issues such as health, public safety, and the society as a whole.

Print ads may seem outdated in this digital era of ours, but through the careful designing of some of the most creative advertisers in the industry, these poster ads can still generate very formidable impressions upon on-lookers. We have collected 50 poster ads from the Ads of the World to inspire you further.

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Public Speaking: How to Nail an Interesting Presentation

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As an introvert, my ability to communicate didn’t come naturally. I consider this apparent flaw one of my greatest strengths, as it forced me to learn how to strategically present information. This led to a lifelong study of the art of communication.

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Public Speaking: How to Nail an Interesting Presentation

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As an introvert, my ability to communicate didn’t come naturally. I consider this apparent flaw one of my greatest strengths, as it forced me to learn how to strategically present information. This led to a lifelong study of the art of communication.

Regardless of what you do for a living, your ability to communicate effectively is crucial to your personal and professional success. While entire books could be dedicated to this art, I am confident that these few insights will assist you at becoming the master communicator you wish to be.

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Marissa Mayer Publicly Lays Out Her Plan For Yahoo

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Yahoo released its Q3 financials last afternoon.

We took live notes from the conference call below.
The higlights:

Yahoo is going to make small aquistions in the tens of millions to low hundreds of millions of dollars.

Mayer wants half of Yahoo's engineers to be mobile engineers.

Mayer said Yahoo should own some of the content it features.

Mayer said it will take multiple years to get the company growing to her standards.

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Eight Tips to Decrease Public Speaking Anxiety

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Let’s face it: Many of us would rather dive into a vat of boiling oil than give a speech.

Public speaking is one of the major phobias. But it doesn't have to be that way.

By following the eight tips below, you can decrease your public speaking anxiety and give an effective speech.

Let's start with the first one, which is to be adequately prepared.

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Now Everyone Is Free to Join Pinterest, No Invite Needed

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If you aren't already planning out your hypothetical fantasy wedding on digital vision board Pinterest, you may now start doing so: the once invite-only platform is now free for everyone and anyone to join.

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How People Actually Use The iPad: Results From Our Exclusive Survey

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We wanted to see how people are using the iPad, and how that use has evolved over the last three years.

So we ran a reader survey. We got 2,242 responses which we have gathered here as a series of charts.

This is the third time we've run this survey (first here, second here).

Surprisingly, the way people use the iPad hasn't evolved significantly. The use case for the first iPad remains the same as the new iPad.

What does that mean? Apple nailed the iPad on the first try. It knew what it was doing. It also means developers have an opportunity to develop new applications that can change how and why we use an iPad.

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30 Best and Creative Public Service Ads

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Public service ads are advertisements sponsored by non-profit institution, a civic group, religious organization, a trade association, or group policy to mobilize the public to take measures for the good of the community. In modern times, media is an important vehicle to call the citizens to act in their best interests and those of society as public service announcements (PSA). Most public service advertising involves the gift of time or space on part of the environment in which it is presented. Groups such as the Red Cross, United Way sponsored a large part of public service announcements.

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What the Higgs boson discovery means for laypeople

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Scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva were cheered like rock stars on July 4 when they formally announced that they had almost certainly nabbed the biggest and most elusive catch in modern physics: the Higgs boson. Dubbed the "God particle," the Higgs boson is "the missing cornerstone of particle physics," said CERN director Rolf Heuer. This "milestone in our understanding of nature" essentially confirms that the universe was formed the way scientists believe it was. Two teams of atom-smashing researchers at CERN's Large Hadron Collider independently verified, with 99.99997 percent certainty, the new subatomic particle, which is a near-perfect fit for what physicists have expected of the Higgs boson since its existence was first theorized 48 years ago. "It's the Higgs," British physicist Jim Al-Khalili tells Reuters. "The announcement from CERN is even more definitive and clear-cut than most of us expected. Nobel prizes all round." So what does this all mean, and where does it leave us? Here, four questions answered about the God particle...

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How to Find Your Computer’s Private & Public IP Addresses

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An IP address (or Internet Protocol address) identifies each networked computer and device on a network. When computers communicate with each other on the Internet or a local network, they send information to each other’s IP addresses.

Your computer likely has public and private IP addresses. You’ll need the IP address if you’re hosting server software – the client computers will need your computer’s IP address to connect to it.

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6 Tips To Engage An Audience While Speaking

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Public speaking is for some a horrific prospect. And that is understandable. Stood up and isolated your audience looks expectantly on. And what do they expect? Depending on the occasion different things, however there is a constant, you’ve got to be interesting.

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60 Creative Public Awareness Ads That Makes You Think

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You gotta admit that the world is ugly. Although World War II was more than 60 years ago, the world today is still filled with destruction, but in different forms such as deforestation, animal massacres and also the robbery of human rights. The good news is that when there is darkness, there is light. More and more people, and organizations, have risen up to speak out against these destructive activities and more, with public awareness ads.

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Microsoft Finally Admits Everyone Hates Internet Explorer

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Most people don't like Internet Explorer. In fact, most internet users (i.e., all of us) think that it sucks! We all know it, and now Microsoft has officially admitted this fact.

So for the launch of IE9, and in a bid to make a comeback against Firefox and Chrome, Microsoft is confronting that criticism head-on with a hefty dose of humor.

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Should You Invest In an Initial Public Offering?

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Facebook recently filed for an initial public offering (IPO) to raise $5 billion and many investors, both institutional and individual, are drooling over the prospects of buying into the hottest company on the block – for now.

I say for now, because other investors are questioning how profitable the social network is, how fast revenues are growing, and whether the company is worth a $5 billion valuation. (It will be three times more expensive than Google was at its IPO).

Thus the question: should the typical Joe Investor consider investing in Facebook or any other hot company?

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The Privacy Problem: We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us

This morning I was ready to bust some heads. I got a text message at about 8:39 from Highlight, the hot new social network thing that will disappear once everyone digests the last of their brisket on the plane ride home from SXSW. The SMS was pretty innocuous (“Download the app!”) but it included a list of 141 phone numbers. Had iOS been able to handle sending messages to 141 people at the same time, I could have made a lot of fun new friends this morning by texting a bunch of ridiculous stuff.

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Digg Data Reveals What We Read But Are Too Scared or Embarrassed To Share

Digg’s January saw an increase in page views by 35% and was its highest traffic month since October 2010. When it dug into why, it found we’re proud to look smart, hip, or funny by sharing tech news and offbeat content, but we keep our guilty pleasure entertainment and divisive political reading to ourselves.

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