How YouTube Works

You’re about to watch a video via YouTube. Hell, you watch dozens of videos every day on YouTube. But do you have any idea how it works? If not, it’s worth watching this video. Where does all that video live? How does

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The Faces of Facebook app shows all 1.2 billion users

Faces of Facebook is aggregating the profiles of every user to give a birds-eye view of the social network     Do you ever wonder about the first person to join Facebook after you? Probably not, unless you and a friend clicked

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Google celebrates its 15th birthday with animated pinata doodle

  TheMech: Wish Google a Happy Birthday! Google on Friday marks its 15th birth anniversary with an animated and interactive doodle on its home page. Google, the search engine giant, was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students of

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Facebook Wants to Get the Entire World on the Internet :: TheMech.in

  In either a selfless bid to change the world or an unsurprising play to get another billion users on Facebook, good ol’ Zuckerberg has announced a new initiative called Internet.org that teams up Facebook with Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson to

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Android grabs 80 percent of global smartphone market in Q2 2013

There are a ton of studies about smartphones done every month, but here’s an interesting one. A study by Strategy Analytics has found that Android is the most dominant operating system on smartphones in the world. The study states that around 80

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How to Get Movies, Music, and More From Your Mobile Device to Your TV

There’s not much your phone or tablet can’t do these days, beyond maybe displaying their troves of mobile content on a screen larger than 10 inches. But that’s what televisions are for. And, with one of these five methods, you’ll be able

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For Just $250 a Week You Can Rent Your Very Own Satellite

  On August 4, a resupply mission is scheduled to take off for the International Space Station carrying a satellite for hire with it. It’s actually a nanosatellite, since it’s only 10 centimeters wide, and it’s yours to use if you’ve got

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Facebook directed to prominently say kids younger than 13 years not allowed

  The Delhi High Court Tuesday asked social networking site Facebook to upload a disclaimer on its home page that children below the age of 13 years cannot open an account on it. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice B.D. Ahmed

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Who Designed Clippy? The History Behind Four Legends of Early UI

It’s human nature to hate things that remind us of how dumb we used to be; Like teenagers who can’t stand their baby pictures, we prefer to ignore the proof of our humble beginnings. The same goes for relics of early computing-for

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Watch Cities Rise Building by Building in these Amazing 3D Animations

  It’s hard to imagine that the vast skylines of our major cities were once empty space and unused tracts of land. But the rapid urban growth over the last century is nothing short of astounding, especially when condensed down to simple

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