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You made it! You're in college, living on your own in the dorms or sharing a space with your best friends. Things couldn't be better until reality hits. In   The 9 Habits You Develop In College That Will Haunt Your Wallet , Maggie McGrath at Forbes talks about some real money drains, in other words how to just flush money directly down the toilet, especially if you rely on credit cards. First off, the article doesn't mention a couple things: 1) set a budget and stick to it, and 2) use CASH whenever possible. Relying on plastic just makes it too easy to do the following nine BAD habits: 1. Eating in the dining hall for every meal. Well, this should read "Eating in the dining hall for every meal AFTER your meal plan has run out." Granted there isn't a gigantic kitchen in the dorms, but, heck, Top Ramen was invented for college students, wasn't it? If you have a freezer, get stuff you can nuke. 2. Late-night bingeing. Studying at 2:00 a.m.? Need som...

FindFace is a facial recognition app developed by two Russians that boasts a 70 percent reliability rate. Why is such an app necessary? According to the creators using social media proiles it can help find missing people, your friends, or men or women that look like actors. In the case of the ersatz-famous you can send them a friend request and ask for a date. Talk about harassment?! "It works by comparing photographs to profile pictures on Vkontakte, a social network popular in Russia and the former Soviet Union, with more than 200 million accounts. In the future, the designers imagine a world where people walking past you on the street could find your social network profile by sneaking a photograph of you, and shops, advertisers and the police could pick your face out of crowds and track you down via social networks.           In the short time since the launch, Findface has amassed 500,000 users and processed nearly 3m searches." Harassment is exac...