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• Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from CrackBerry.com!

  25-12-2017 23:15 via feeds.crackberry.com
  As we roll on through Christmas day, I just wanted to pop on real quick and make a post wishing all our readers Merry Christmas and let you know we here at CrackBerry hope you all have a safe and happy holidays.
  As we roll on through Christmas day, I just wanted to pop on real quick and make a post wishing all our readers Merry Christmas and let you know we here at CrackBerry hope you all have a safe and happy holidays. In this connected world we now live in, it's not always easy to tune things
  
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• Your bank is probably using phishing tactics on you

  25-12-2017 20:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Have you ever received a phone call from your bank’s fraud department? A number appears on my phone that I don’t recognize, and, just this one time, I pick up, and I hear, “Hello, my name is June. I’m calling from the fraud department of <massive international bank>. Can I confirm who I’m talking with?” So I respond, “Hi June, my name is Duncan Riach. What is this call about?” And then June says, “I’m calling you today, Mr. Riach
  
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• 2017 in Memes: The best of the best

  25-12-2017 18:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  2017 was such a rich year for memes, viral tweets, and internet sensations that you could practically chart the year’s entire calendar by when each one took over social media. In fact, the list of popular memes from this year is so long I’ve had to confine it to my personal favorites. Here are the memes I think made the most impact this year. Distracted Boyfriend One of this year’s earliest memes, Distracted Boyfriend is a stock photo taken as part of a set. It depicts a boyfr
  
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• You still need to learn JavaScript in 2018 (I’m not kidding)

  25-12-2017 17:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  JavaScript is the language of the web. Looking at the 10 million most popular pages on the internet, nearly 95 percent of them use JavaScript in one way or another. The most popular browsers in the world such as Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer support JavaScript. So right now, your decision to learn this language will definitely lead you to the path of success, provide you with work and let you rise up above the countless, average-skilled JavaScript developers out there. But as wit
  
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• Ready Player One and the Troubled Future of VR

  25-12-2017 16:00 via technewsworld.com
  One of the issues with virtual reality is that expectations have been overset massively with TV shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation, which promised an artificial reality indistinguishable from reality. VR failed. It didn't have to -- there is a pattern to bringing out successful technology that is repeatable. You create a complete experience regardless of cost, then cost-reduce it. Sadly, the more common path is to try to hit an aggressive price point first and deliver a crippled experienc
  
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• Launch a professional copywriting career for just $24

  25-12-2017 16:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  You’re smart, you’re creative and you can write a little bit. Congratulations, that puts you on the path to becoming a copywriter. But before you go charging into a top ad firm and demand a spot in their stable, you’ll need to understand some of the basic steps in crafting solid, effective advertising copy. You can start getting that experience under your belt with a collection of Copywriting Mastery courses. This package of instruction is on sale now at over 90 percent off, o
  
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• We used a cryptocurrency miner as a heater this winter and it really worked

  25-12-2017 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Surfing through the web back in October, I stumbled upon an odd but genuinely fascinating contraption: a Russian cryptocurrency miner that leverages the heat it generates from stacking Ethereum to keep your room warm. Shortly after I wrote about this unusual device, Comino – the Russian-based startup behind this invention – reached out to us and kindly offered to ship one of its miners for us to test this winter. We gladly took them up on their offer, and a couple of weeks later, th
  
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• Tech companies respond to repeal of net neutrality!

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• PewDiePie screwed up in 2017 but influencers will only get stronger in 2018

  25-12-2017 13:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  When the children of 2117 download their virtual knowledge pack about the history of marketing using their biologically enhanced memory chips to store the data, they’ll be saying: “100 years ago was the year influencer marketing really took off. Can you believe it?” I’m kidding, obviously. They won’t have to download the pack, that would be far too much work – it’ll be built in already. However, it will be true to say that 2017 has been a big year for t
  
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• Here’s how to hack 40 websites in 7 minutes

  25-12-2017 11:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Last summer I started learning about information security and hacking. Over the last year I’ve played in various wargames, capture the flag and penetration testing simulations, continuously improving my hacking skills and learning new things about ‘how to make computers deviate from their expected behavior’. Long story short, my experience was always limited to simulated environments, and since I consider myself a white-hat hacker (aka one of the good guys) I never stuck my no
  
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• The 5 most important SEO trends to watch in 2018

  25-12-2017 07:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Long gone are the days when keyword placement and backlinks guaranteed success in SEO. As Google gathers increasingly more data about us, search results have become more accurate, timely, and personalized than ever. As such, the SEO’s job today is more than keywords and backlinks. It’s more than metadata optimisation. It’s more than even content. It’s the assurance of a frictionless user experience while delivering the right information at the right time—and in a t
  
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