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Uber code texts don't stop trips you never took being charged to you. *Photo by Dan Gold*

Your money can be stolen from your Uber account with shady Uber code texts

We’re used to companies securing our accounts by sending us SMS codes - but they aren’t as secure as we think.
It's possible to save your sanity, battery, and data by blocking ads in apps, on the web, and even video ads on Android. *Image by Thom Holmes*

Block ads in apps on Android (including video ads)

Regain your sanity by learning how to block ads in apps on Android, including video ads.
Google helps us find information easily but at what cost?

How Google is getting between readers and publishers

Google’s harvesting of information from the web is fundamentally changing what publishers produce, but are publishers bearing an unfair burden, and is the web better this way?
Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel and his husband Gauthier Destenay.

"The Prime Minister and his husband": Gay leaders around the world

Meet the trail blazing LGBT politicians elected to lead their countries.
An early incarnation of the Lightning Network's testnet.

Bitcoin's Lightning Network doesn't require you to open a channel for each person you want to pay

Although Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is now up and running, there’s still misconceptions about what using it is like.
Twitter and Reddit are similar in lots of ways, but only Reddit has effective tools to dissuade the vitriol

Trolls and Consequences: What Twitter needs to learn from Reddit

Twitter and Reddit are both huge, anonymous networks. But only Twitter has earned a reputation for abuse like rape and death threats. How does Reddit keep the trolls behaving?
The factors effecting cryptocurrency prices are particularly elusive.

When Does A Cryptocurrency Bubble Burst?

There’s a long history of predicting the prices of traditional assets, but what could end the run away growth of cryptocurrency investment?
SegWit is a backwards-compatible change to how Bitcoin transactions are formatted, with two huge benefits.

How to switch to SegWit in 5 minutes (and why)

This Bitcoin tweak helps the whole network process more transactions, and you can start using now.
The irresistible urge to resist doing what we know we should is universal, but is it a matter of laziness or something deeper?

You might be procrastinating for good reason

Putting off work seems like an irrational, emotional thing to do. But there might be logical reasons why you’d rather be doing something else.
There's better ways to organize classes in a video game than a hierarchy. Image via [jurgenappelo](https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurgenappelo/5201869924)

Game developers: don't use inheritance for your game objects

For game developers: we look at why you shouldn’t use inheritance for your classes, and what you can use instead.
Bill Gates verifying his identity for Reddit. We're not sure what's happening either. Via [Twitter](https://twitter.com/billgates/status/836260338366459904).

Bill Gates casually chats with people on Reddit when he isn't saving the world

It’s not every day you chat to a billionaire, but on Reddit you might just throw some words at Bill Gates without even realizing.
Undeserving website can pay to climb Google's rankings and reach the lucrative top positions

Google Search is being routinely gamed by fake blogs and has been for years

For years, fraudsters have been getting away with tricking Google into pushing them higher up on the search result pages than they deserve to be. We’ll look at a PBN example, and explore if search engines can do anything about them.