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PulseOnTech: Technology Updates Sent To Twitter

3/19/10 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under Riotfeeds Spotlight

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If you’re into staying on top of today’s most cutting edge technology, then let PulseOnTech be your go-to destination for realtime techie updates.  Featuring today’s most popular stories from your favorite tech publications – sites like TechCrunch, Mashable, Wired, and ReadWriteWeb, PulseOnTech delivers you fresh, relevant, results to keep you completely up to speed.  The best part?  All updates are sent straight to your Twitter account for complete convenience.

picture-4113If technology’s not your thing, we’ve got plenty of other Riotfeed genres to choose from.  Not seeing what you’re looking for?  Email JHodges@OneRiot.com and suggest one.  We’ll see what we can do!

iWant One-But What Will I Do With It?

1/28/10 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Hot Topics

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The Story: Ya, the iPad is sexy…but here’s how it’s going to go down if you actually buy one.

The Search: iPad

Once again, Apple has defined a product type and introduced its own entry as the one to beat, though it’s likely no one will beat it for at least two years. The iPad is pretty damn sweet. Not quite a computer, not quite an iPhone, the iPad attempts to bridge the gap for those who have their phone but can’t afford their ridiculously expensive computers. It’s one step towards monopolizing the individual consumer’s information and separating man from the technology he has come to rely on. But who can argue with such a fun product? No doubt, the scores of people who saw the unveiling were no more than two minutes into it before they started imagining what they’d do with such a device. Well, we’re going to bring you back to reality. (more…)

Could Drone Hack Lead to Robotic Attack?

12/17/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Hot Topics

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The Story:  Militants in Iraq have intercepted live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones.

The Search: Predator Drone Hack

We shouldn’t have trusted the machines. We allowed them to manufacture our goods, manage our communication, and worst of all, fight our wars. Everyone had reservations about sending unmanned drones into war zones to impersonally kill our foes, and finally we see this fear culminating into something very real. What’s worse than an armed drone become self aware and controlling itself? The same drones getting hacked by militants.

How the hell did this happen?

Militant Nerds
If we were to equate the terrorists to any character from Revenge of the Nerds, it would be Ogre and not Skolnick, but it looks like our perception is getting a jolt. Those Poindexters have gotten a hold of our technology and we didn’t even know they were using computers. Before long, these Toshiro Takashis are going to have our troops running around like a bunch of Lamars. This would never have happened if Stan Gable was still our president. (more…)

Why So Angry?

12/04/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Hot Topics

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The Story: A new study shows that people younger than thirty are the most unhappy.  Well cheer up buttercup, here’s some reasons why you should smile.

The Search: Angriest Americans

Americans under 30 years old have it tough. Not only did they grow up in an environment where rapidly changing technology influenced their lives for the better, but most of them missed out on Jimmy Carter’s entire presidency. Recently, a study of 1,800 Americans over the age of 18 conducted by a researcher at the University of Toronto, found that people younger than thirty were (in non-technical terms) more PO’d then everyone else. So why is the youth of America so generally disenchanted all of the time? One might speculate that it’s because the damned DVR keeps cutting off the first and last minute of Family Guy episodes, but that’s not what the survey says. According to researcher Scott Schieman, it’s factors such as “time pressures,” “economic hardship”, and “interpersonal conflict at the workplace” that have the youth of a nation foaming at the mouth or at least seething with vitriol. While we too have felt the sting of the previous three factors, we tend to always look on the bright side of life. So in order to help our fellow youngsters find reasons to turn that frown upside down, we’d like to present a few things to be happy about.

Technology- Did you know that way back in the day when people had nothing to do at work, they just had to sit there? Imagine having to hide an actual game of solitaire or the fact that you were looking at porn at your desk from your boss with a deck of cards and a magazine present. Oh and that cell phone you tote around, that means you can talk to someone from anywhere, not call your friends from a germ-ridden phone booth where some vagrant relieved himself the previous evening. (more…)

Twitter Gets Caught in a New Phishing Net

10/14/09 - Posted by Christopher Reinhard under Industry

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You have to hand it to spammers—they’re always coming up with new and different ways to ruin our f$%*ing lives. And given today’s trends, some crafty little phisherman has managed to hook the info from a whole lot of Twitter accounts in just a couple of hours.

Here’s the rub: countless Twitter users logged in this morning to discover that they had a new DM (always a joy) featuring a link to a video that, allegedly, included footage of the unsuspecting user doing god knows what.  Since we’re all pretty narcissistic these days, enough people clicked on the shady URL which brought up what looked like the Twitter login page. Ipso facto, users logged in on the faux-Twitter and had their accounts compromised. (more…)

Punch Yourself, Not Digits: Here Comes Cell Phone Elbow

6/02/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Hot Topics

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As our lives have grown more dependent on cell phones, many have speculated as to what horrible long term consequences from using such a device would emerge. Government surveillance? Traffic Accidents? Brain tumors? We could not have even imagined a situation so dire. It began when 66-year-old Donna Malloy was carrying a cup of coffee and some grain biscuits to her living room, then felt a tingle…in her elbow.

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