We’ve never gotten a gift card we didn’t like. But there are some we would definitely reject. (A Bungee-Jumping gift certificate would be high on the list.) Here are a couple of websites where you can trade your cards for cash.
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The number of photos captured worldwide every year has increased six times in the last ten years to 1.2 trillion photos. That’s around 3.3 billion (yes, billion) photos a day. Around 79 percent of smartphone users take photos with their phones, 88 percent of those ages 18 to 24.
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In three years, almost a quarter of all U.S. households won’t be cable TV subscribers, according to a new study by eMarketer. Instead, they’ll be watching Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other channels on the Web, either directly on their computers or through devices like the Roku Player, Apple TV and Google Chromecast.
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We still remember the time an airline company rang our doorbell at 3 a.m.to deliver our lost bags. At least we were home, not at a computer show where we might be forced to wear Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops. Now there’s a gadget aimed at preventing all lost bags.
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December 2015 was the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s lecture on the “General Theory of Relativity,” changing forever the way we see the Universe. On a somewhat lesser level, it was the 40th anniversary of “Colossal Cave Adventure,” usually called simply “Adventure.”
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Most of the web is invisible to Google, according to an article in Popular Science magazine. The so-called “Deep Web” is hidden behind password-protected sites, or sites you have to pay to enter, or sites that require special software to view. By some estimates, it’s 500 times larger than the Web we see.
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Norsecorp.com/resources/global-perspective tells you where cyber attacks are coming from and who’s getting hit. By volume, most are from China. But as a percentage of the population, it’s Iceland and Saudi Arabia. Map.Norsecorp.com gives you a live view of ongoing attacks.
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