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Have you seen those commercials for DNA testing companies like 23andMe and AncestryDNA?
Their pitches are so compelling that people are signing up in droves and happily shipping off their saliva in order to find out their exact genetic makeup.
And you might even be thinking about taking the plunge yourself. Well, there’s something you need to consider before you make that decision… [Read more…]
Update: There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding Google’s decision kill off their Google+ social media service.
If you have never used Google+ this change won’t affect you in any way. And if you don’t know exactly what Google+ is you have almost certainly never used it.
And this change won’t affect Gmail, YouTube, Google Search, Google Drive or any other Google service.
I will ONLY affect Google+ and nothing else.
Note: The original post continues below…
For years people have been making dangerous “prank” videos and sharing them on YouTube hoping to see the videos go viral.
A lot of those dangerous videos did end up going viral, inspiring thousands of copycats to attempt to recreate the prank.
As one might expect, many of those copycat pranksters ended up getting seriously hurt while filming their own versions of the stunts.
Things became even worse when the prank video makers started actually challenging viewers to make similar videos of their own.
Solid State Drives (SSDs) have been around for a good while now, and it’s no secret that replacing a hard drive with an SSD can put most any computer on virtual steroids.
But it’s also well known that SSDs have one huge issue that has been holding them back from mass adoption in the PC marketplace…
Compared to traditional spinning hard drives, SSDs are both expensive and relatively limited in storage space. [Read more…]
Did you know Amazon has a fantastic ad-free music streaming service? Well, they do, and I love it!
It’s called Amazon Prime Music
Amazon Prime Music streams ad-free music directly to your computer or mobile device.
It works a lot like Pandora, but it’s like getting Pandora’s premium service without having to pay anything extra.