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Reddit Recap: Bill Gates' Seven Best Responses

Posted 02/12/2013 at 9:30am | by Paul Lilly

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates won over the Reddit crowd by answering a plethora of questions.

Bill Gates is a rock star on so many levels. Yes, he co-founded Microsoft, built his net worth to tens of billions of dollars, and now spends his days doing philanthropy work through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, all of which are admirable in their own right. It would be easy for someone in his position to be an egotistical jerk who's disconnected from the public at large, but instead, this is the same guy who once did the Robot next to Jerry Seinfeld, made us crave churros in another Vista ad, and more recently (as in, yesterday) answered a boatload of questions on Reddit.

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Bill Gates is Fielding Questions on Reddit

Posted 02/11/2013 at 12:24pm | by Paul Lilly

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Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates jumped into an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit.

From cheap thrills (like cheeseburgers) to unreleased products, the man himself, Bill Gates, billionaire founder of the world's largest software company, is right now answering user questions on Reddit. There's still time to jump into the AMA (Ask Me Anything) session if you have a burning question of your own, but you'll have to ask fast, as he's already been in there for about an hour.

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Russian Search Engine Yandex Surpasses Bing in Popularity

Posted 02/11/2013 at 9:00am | by Paul Lilly

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Bing falls to fifth place in the search engine wars, according to data from comScore qSearch.

Google tends to be the go-to search engine in the United States and in many other parts of the world, but in Russia, Yandex is top dog. On a global scale, Yandex is now officially more popular than Microsoft's Bing, so says the latest search engine data from comScore qSearch. Bing slipped to fifth place with a 2.5 share of the search market, falling slightly behind Yandex at 2.8 percent.

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Amazon Allegedly Picks Fight with Mom and Pop Porn Site

Posted 02/08/2013 at 12:47pm | by Paul Lilly

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A family-owned adult DVD store claims Amazon is trying to shut it down.

Oh, the injustice! The owners of AdultWoot.com, a small, family-owned online store that sells adult themed DVDs (read: pornography) for under $5 a pop, claims Amazon is the one playing dirty by trying to shut the site down using underhanded tactics. Why would Amazon go out of its way to shutter an online porn shop? Simply put, Amazon owns Woot.com, an online deal site it acquired last year, and it doesn't want customers thinking the two sites are in any way related.

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Boston Dad Bribes Teenage Daughter $200 to Suspend Facebook

Posted 02/07/2013 at 12:07pm | by Paul Lilly

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Teenage girl plans to buy "stuff" with the $200 she'll receive for quitting Facebook.

An interesting story about a 14-year-old daughter who convinced her dad to pay her to suspend Facebook for five months is making the rounds. Paul Baier, a research consultant in Boston, posted an image on his blog of the contract he and his daughter signed. Under terms of the agreement, little Baier will receive $50 upfront for deactivating her account, and another $150 at the end of June when the contract expires.

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Best Super Bowl-Related Websites

Posted 02/01/2013 at 2:23pm | by David Murphy

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Websites to stream the game online, watch Super Bowl commercials, and more

Regardless of whether or not you, the geeky PC enthusiast that you are, are excited about watching (arguably) the two top teams in the NFL meet for their annual head-to-head, commercial-filled extravaganza; we've got 10 fun Super Bowl-related websites to keep you entertained. Puppy Bowl, anyone?

So if you truly want to enrich your bone-crunching football experience, check out one of the many companion websites below that will help make the big game day even better.

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Surprise! Google+ Overtakes Twitter as Number 2 Social Network

Posted 01/28/2013 at 11:35am | by Paul Lilly

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A ghost town no more, Google+ is home to hundreds of millions of active users.

If you've been avoiding Google+ all this time because you heard it was a ghost town, perhaps it's time you give the social networking site a visit. Google+, while still not on the level of Facebook in terms of users and activity, has now surpassed Twitter in monthly active users, making it the planet's second busiest social networking site around, according to data collected by Global Web Index (GWI from here on out).

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Handy Website Helps Compare Processors Like a "CPUBoss"

Posted 01/22/2013 at 12:17pm | by Paul Lilly

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CPUBoss aims to make it easy to search for and compare CPUs.

Do you know which is the overall better buy between an Intel Core i7 3770K and AMD FX 8350? If shopping mobile devices, do you know how Nvidia's Tegra 3 stacks up against Texas Instruments' OMAP 4 (4470)? We live and breathe technology and it's literally our job to know the answer to those types of questions, but if you have better things to do than sit around all day and study processor technologies, you might find CPUBoss.com a helpful site the next time you're in the market for a system, big or small.

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Google Didn't Kill a Donkey, It Just Looked That Way

Posted 01/17/2013 at 10:16am | by Paul Lilly

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As it turns out, Google didn't run over a donkey taking Street View pictures.

Everyone knows what happens when you assume things, and admittedly, Street View pictures in the Kweneng region of Botswana showing a donkey sprawled across the road amid a puff of dust looked bad. Like, really bad. At a glance, it appeared Google ran over and killed the wandering donkey in its continued quest to photograph the planet, an innocent victim in the wrong place at precisely the right time. But guess what? The donkey's alive.

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Calling All Readers: Which Antivirus Programs Would YOU Like to See Reviewed?

Posted 01/16/2013 at 3:40pm | by Paul Lilly

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Tell us which AV programs you want to see included in this year's roundup!

Straight and to the point, we need your help. You see, we're getting ready to conduct our annual roundup of Internet security suites, and we thought we'd try something a little different this year. Rather than pick which programs we think you'd be most interested in reading about, we're letting YOU tell US which ones to include. That's right, you wield the power -- how will you use it?

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates won over the Reddit crowd by answering a plethora of questions.

Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates jumped into an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit.

Bing falls to fifth place in the search engine wars, according to data from comScore qSearch.

A family-owned adult DVD store claims Amazon is trying to shut it down.

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A ghost town no more, Google+ is home to hundreds of millions of active users.

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