5 Annoying Tech Habits That Need to Stop Read more: 5 Annoying Tech Habits That Need to Stop

Technology has become a part of our everyday lives over the last 10 years. Seeing people running around with smartphones, tablets and laptops on a daily basis doesn’t even garner a second look as it did in the early 2000’s.
Unfortunately, not everyone reviewed their copy of the Common Courtesy Rulebook that should have come with their beloved devices. Annoying habits have migrated from analog to digital and it’s time for a refresher on what not to do with your tech toys.

http://techland.time.com/2014/02/04/5-annoying-tech-habits-that-need-to-stop/ 

‘Don’t Pick Your Nose:’ Here Are 30 Rules for Boyfriends From Two Genius Little Girls

Massachusetts Mom Gabrielle Daniels posted the below note penned by her two daughters, 6-year-old Blaire and 9-year-old Brooke. In the note, the two little geniuses detail 30 rules their future boyfriends must abide by. Who knew kids gave such good romantic advice?

http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/04/dont-pick-your-nose-here-are-30-rules-for-boyfriends-from-two-genius-little-girls/

Magnificent Obsession: How Queen Victoria Influenced Photography

The story of Queen Victoria is surprisingly and deeply intertwined with the birth of photography as a medium. In an exhibition opening at The Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, curator Anne Lyden has organized a comprehensive look at Victoria’s relationship to and influence on photography, from her first encounters with it as a young woman to her seminal Diamond Jubilee portrait. Victoria grasped from a young age what it would take the rest of the world many years to realize: that photography could be both an artistic medium as well as a mechanism of propaganda.

http://lightbox.time.com/2014/02/04/magnificent-obsession-how-queen-victoria-influenced-photography/#1

7 Things Extremely Persuasive People Do

While many people don’t like to sell, most find themselves having to persuade someone at some point. Persuasion is not just for salespeople and their prospects. You may try to persuade an employee to perform better, or perhaps you want to persuade your boss to take on your brilliant idea. Often the most effective persuaders are your kids. Somehow they come by it naturally while you, the adult, has to work hard to find the persuasive path to success.

http://business.time.com/2014/01/24/7-things-extremely-persuasive-people-do/ 

From ‘E-mail’ to ‘Email’: Dropping Hyphens Like They’re Hot Read more: New York Times Updates Stylebook--and Puts Some Hyphens to Rest

As of this week, reporters at the New York Times will no longer refer to e-mail. They will, instead, refer to email. The discarded hyphen comes with a batch of other updates to the Gray Lady’s stylebook—and in a time when hyphens have reason to be out of favor.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/30/from-e-mail-to-email-dropping-hyphens-like-theyre-hot/ 

The family company that invented the snow globe

Erwin Perzy III knows a thing or two about making it snow - it's the family business.

The 57-year-old Austrian is the grandson of the man widely acknowledged as the inventor of the snow globe. His grandfather, the first Erwin Perzy, came up with the idea by accident in 1900.
Mass production started in Vienna in 1905, and 108 years later, the company - Original Vienna Snow Globes - is still going strong.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25298507 

Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing

Computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing has been given a posthumous royal pardon.

It addresses his 1952 conviction for gross indecency following which we was chemically castrated.
He had been arrested after having an affair with a 19-year-old Manchester man.
The conviction meant he lost his security clearance and had to stop the code-cracking work that had proved vital to the Allies in World War Two.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25495315