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Get a lifetime of unlimited mobile backup from iDrive for just $10

Apr13
by on April 13, 2015 at 12:16 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers, TNWDeals

Our smartphones are now a huge part of our lives, and store plenty of  important contacts and files, and our favorite music and photos. iDrive’s mobile backup lets you store them safely in the cloud for easy retrieval from any device and desktop – and we’ve got a great deal on this must-have service. With iDrive, you can easily back up contacts, photos, videos, calendar events, SMS history, call logs, apps and more from up to 5 devices, all with a single tap. Access your files and data whenever you need them on your desktop or other devices, and restore…

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What John Oliver can teach us about communication

Apr13
by on April 13, 2015 at 12:09 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, john oliver, Opinion, Pep Rosenfeld

John Oliver on the NSA Recording Your Phone and E-Mail
Pep Rosenfeld is co-founder of comedy theater Boom Chicago and Boom Chicago Creative in Amsterdam. He loves both nerd chic and chic nerds, and can be seen hosting events where they meet — like #TNW2015. With his piece last week about surveillance and Snowden, John Oliver officially crossed the line from helpfully informative comedian to comic journalist doing the work journalism can’t quite seem to get done. He makes the vegetables of dull information into tasty desserts of comedy that people hungrily gobble down, share and post. If Steve Jobs was a modern day Prometheus, distributing the fire of technology to non-nerds, John Oliver has become the Instruction Manual…

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How Bitcoin could revolutionize remittance in Africa

Apr13
by on April 13, 2015 at 11:43 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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A host of local companies are looking to disrupt the remittance market in Africa by undercutting traditional money transfer operators while also offering businesses new ways of accepting payments on a continent with low credit card penetration and an over-reliance on cash. The likes of Igot, Beam, BitPesa and BitX have spotted an opportunity to build Bitcoin businesses in Africa. Though stolen bitcoins, the collapse of the Mt.Gox exchange and drastic digital currency value fluctuations have made Bitcoin a byword for controversy in much of the Western world, they feel it can find a true home in Africa, the land…

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You can now score an Xbox One in the UK for just £300

Apr13
by on April 13, 2015 at 11:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Consoles, Gadgets, gaming, xbox one

Microsoft has just knocked £30 off the cost of its Xbox One gaming console in the UK, bringing the price down to £300. At that price, you’ll get the bare-bones package that only includes the console and a single controller. If you want the Kinect motion sensing add-on, you’ll need to shell out an additional £100. The best games. The best exclusives. The best time to buy an Xbox One. Now starting at £299.99 http://t.co/Tbep7mapLC pic.twitter.com/uezLFTujkw — Xbox UK (@xboxuk) April 13, 2015 The reduction comes ahead of major-label AAA releases for the console, like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Batman:…

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Sharing that picture of your ex naked could now land you two years in a UK jail

Apr13
by on April 13, 2015 at 11:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, UK

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Not that you would, of course, but if you’ve ever been tempted to post pictures of your ex online, or indeed just flash them around to friends, you can now wind up with a prison sentence in the UK. Under new regulations that came into force today, the ‘revenge porn’ rules now mean that distributing images of an ex (or anyone, without their permission) via social channels, email, SMS, posting them to a website, or in any other form – including showing them to friends – can land you in the clink. The new offence criminalizes “the disclosure of photographs or…

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