New iPhone app lets you talk to extraterrestrials

Kepler telescope moves on the Earth’s orbit since 2009 trying to find habitable planets in other solar systems, and it already found around 2300 candidates. Users of iPhone and iPad now have a free available app that allows them to come into contact to these distant worlds. With the extraordinary power of the Internet and social networks, we might expect that now we will know not only whether there is life on these planets or not, but also what aliens eat for breakfast, what they do on weekends, what brands of clothing they wear, etc. Yes, because scientists can build the communication devices, but they’re unable to have a normal conversation, even with human beings who live next to them every day.

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Illegal downloads will cost you more

Managers of Swedish site The Pirate Bay are thinking of installing servers aboard unmanned drones, flying over international waters. This way, they expect to avoid the laws protecting copyright, for which they have already been imprisoned. The pirates know that there are laws that others must abide, and don’t expect someone will have the audacity to shoot down the planes, that they will pay with so much sacrifice, with money earned with the sweat of others. If you – who like to download movies and software for a few pennies – think this is good news, disillusion yourself: who do you think will pay for those drones?

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New iPhone application ends with privacy once and for all

The Highlight will give us the profile of those around us, will notify us of their presence when they share common interests and will give us the location of our friends. The promoter of the app says that passing by so many people every day without knowing anything about them is ridiculous. We never heard such a complaint before, and we wonder how much Apple will pay us for carrying their new device and making part of their catalog of people available to be interrupted by strangers at every minute. Perhaps it is good to remember an important social rule: no one approaches the other with good intentions.

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Common tweets are good economic indicators

Information published on the Internet is increasingly used by economic agents to find market trends. They started by search engines, but now they are also studying social networks, which are probably more reliable than traditional questionnaires, consisting of completely spontaneous information coming of a huge population sample. So let’s watch our language in our tweets, so we won’t shock staffs from central banks or financial business who might be reading us. And as for compulsively lying in every word, let’s not do so, or we can be starting another global crisis.

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