NEWS INDEX
Culture & History
- 2016.05.03 Tech can help the elderly…if they use it
- 2016.06.17 Six Ways Fathers Can Inspire Their Daughters In Technology
- 2016.08.16 Myth busted: Older workers are just as tech-savvy as younger ones, says new survey
- 2016.08.16 ‘Gaming Grandma’ Takes on Internet Ageism
- 2016.08.24 How Marconi Gave Us the Wireless World
- 2016.09.07 Mission Impossible? FBI wants to be cool enough to recruit hackers
- 2016.09.09 Google’s Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring ISIS Recruits
- 2016.09.09 Facebook reinstates Vietnam photo after outcry over censorship
- 2016.09.21 Steam Blows Off Aggrieved Indie Dev
- 2016.09.21 DoT Refreshes Rule Book to Include Self-Driving Cars
- 2016.12.29 Tech Giants Team to Battle Terrorism Online
- 2016.12.29 Traversing the Social Media Minefield
- 2016.12.29 Gates Spearheads $1B Clean Tech Effort
- 2017.05.12 Are you ready to forfeit your laptop when flying?
- 2017.05.12 Net neutrality grabs spotlight again as FCC chief seeks to rescind the tough regulations
- 2017.07.18 Facebook is re-sculpting our memory
- 2017.07.18 Facebook says it shouldn’t have to stay mum when government seeks user data
- 2017.07.18 Why emojis may be the best thing to happen to language in the digital age
- 2018.02.09 Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan Aim to Untangle Employee Healthcare Knot
- 2018.02.19 Silicon Valley’s Corrupt Underbelly: It’s Far Worse Than We Thought
- 2018.04.26 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional Testimony
- 2018.04.26 As the net neutrality CRA deadline in Congress approaches, support continues to grow
- 2018.04.26 Ajit Pai Is Intentionally Delaying His Net Neutrality Repeal and No One Knows Why
Entertainment
- 2016.06.17 This phone case turns your phone into a fully-functioning Game Boy
- 2016.07.26 Nintendo’s NES Classic Targets Gaming Geezers
- 2016.08.07 Amazon Wants Developers to Make Choose Your Own Adventure Games for Alexa
- 2016.08.24 PlayStation Now game streaming is coming to PC
- 2016.08.24 As casual gamers move to mobile, Facebook eyes the hardcore crowd
- 2016.09.01 Echo Owners May Get Their Own Kind of Music
- 2016.09.09 Miyamoto on why Mario is finally coming to smartphones
- 2016.09.21 New Apple Products Have the Right Gaming Stuff
- 2017.05.13 How to stream your video collection to any device
Online
- 2016.04.27 Facebook Messenger Lets 50 Friends Get In on a Call
- 2016.05.03 BlockIQ Escalates War on Ad Blockers
- 2016.05.23 Google to Dim Flash Player in Chrome Browser
- 2016.07.11 New Apple Health App to Serve as Organ Donation Matchmaker
- 2016.08.07 Apple’s Switch to Squirt Gun Emoji Triggers Flood of Emotions
- 2016.08.18 Google Duo Aims to Make Video Calling Super-Easy
- 2016.08.29 Opera’s free unlimited VPN service is coming to Android
- 2016.08.29 YouTube’s app for the big screen is being updated today
- 2016.08.29 YouTube Just Created a New TV App For Cord-Cutting Viewers
- 2016.09.07 This software startup can tell your boss if you’re looking for a job
- 2016.09.21 A Screenshot Tour of Allo, Google’s New Smart Messaging App
- 2018.02.15 Google’s Big Ad-Blocking Update Comes to Chrome Tomorrow: Here’s What We Know
- 2018.02.19 What Happened To Google Image Search And Why You Can No Longer View Images Directly
Online – Social Media
- 2016.04.27 Facebook Messenger Lets 50 Friends Get In on a Call
- 2016.06.23 Twitter Applies ‘140’ Rule to Video Seconds
- 2016.07.25 Snapchat’s Curious About-Face
- 2016.07.25 Tinder Social Feeds More-the-Merrier Impulses
- 2016.07.25 Twitter Lets Anyone and Everyone Apply for a Blue Badge
- 2016.07.26 Facebook Lets Messenger Conversations Go Dark
- 2016.08.07 Instagram’s Stories Inspired by Snapchat
- 2016.08.24 Facebook Rolls Out Lifestage, A New Video Social Networking App Designed For Teens
- 2016.09.01 Instagram Opens Snappy New Events Channel
- 2016.09.07 Facebook test highlights what your friends are talking about
- 2016.09.09 Facebook photo-sharing app Moments expands to web, adds support for full-res photos
- 2018.02.09 Facebook Is Gobbling Less of Users’ Time
Security
- 2016.05.23 Flaw Puts a Billion Wireless Mice at Risk
- 2016.05.31 Google’s Abacus May Count Out Passwords
- 2016.05.31 Microsoft Tightens Screws on Terrorists Posting Online
- 2016.06.13 Twitter Users Snared in Dark Web’s Brisk Password Trade
- 2016.06.17 You Can Only Disable Defender In Windows 10 Home By Installing Another Antivirus
- 2016.06.17 The Best Antivirus App for Windows
- 2016.06.23 Study: Third-Party Apps Pose Risks for Enterprises
- 2016.07.25 Civil Rights Office Issues Ransomware Guidance
- 2016.07.26 Hackers Claim Credit for Pokemon Go No-Go
- 2016.07.26 Google Dabbles in Post-Quantum Cryptography
- 2016.08.02 Google Beefs Up Phone App’s Spam-Fighting Skills
- 2016.08.07 Old Tech Can Create New Security Woes
- 2016.08.10 Five Best File Encryption Tools
- 2016.08.18 Three Easy Tricks to Improve Your Online Security
- 2016.08.18 Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess
- 2016.08.29 How to spot an Instagram scammer
- 2016.09.09 A $50 device and an app can easily steal your PC’s log-in
- 2016.09.09 Chrome is stepping up its war on the unencrypted web
- 2016.09.21 This USB Stick Will Instantly Destroy Your Computer
- 2016.09.21 Attack-for-Hire Teens Collared in Israel
- 2016.10.10 IoT Could Become Playground for Botnets Gone Wild
- 2016.12.29 2017: More Apple Security Flaws, Cyberattacks, Hacktivisim
- 2017.05.13 FCC website hit by attacks after ‘net neutrality’ proposal
- 2017.05.13 What you need to know about the massive hack that hit the British health-care system and elsewhere
- 2017.05.15 With New Digital Tools, Even Nonexperts Can Wage Cyberattacks
- 2017.08.08 The Man Who Wrote Those Password Rules Has a New Tip: N3v$r M1^d!
- 2018.02.01 Alphabet’s New Chronicle Promises to Speed Threat Data Analysis
- 2018.02.09 WiFi Routers Riddled With Holes: Report
- 2018.02.19 Are Smart TV Designs Taking Home Security for Granted?
Security – Virus & Malware
- 2016.04.27 New Attack Technique Hides Spread of RATs in Asia
- 2016.05.23 Gang Surrenders Key to TeslaCrypt Ransomware Kingdom
- 2016.07.11 Mobile Ransomware Has Mushroomed
- 2016.07.11 HummingBad Mucks Up Android’s Works
- 2016.08.02 KeySniffer Follows the Scent of Cheap Wireless Keyboards
- 2016.08.10 900 Million Androids Could Be Easy Prey for QuadRooter Exploits
- 2016.08.18 Super-Sophisticated Spyware Spotted After 5-Year Run
- 2016.09.21 Google fixes two serious Android security flaws
Technology
- 2016.04.27 Chromebooks May Get Avalanche of Android Apps
- 2016.04.27 Acer invests in Grandpad
- 2016.05.03 HP Chromebook 13 Wins High Praise – for a Chromebook
- 2016.05.03 Microsoft Curbs Cortana in Windows 10
- 2016.06.13 HPE Wants Open Source Devs to Kick The Machine Into Gear
- 2016.06.17 Google’s killer feature for Chromebooks has started to roll out
- 2016.06.21 Google: Dare to Daydream
- 2016.07.18 Record-Setting Hard Drive Writes Information One Atom At a Time
- 2016.07.25 Android, Chromebook Make a Sweet Couple
- 2016.07.26 Apple Patents Tech to Foil Concert Pirates
- 2016.08.18 Google May Paint IoT Fuchsia
- 2016.08.29 Android 7.0 Nougat: All the features of Google’s new mobile operating system and how to download it onto your smartphone
- 2016.08.29 MIT scientists develop groundbreaking new WiFi that’s three-times faster
- 2016.08.29 Some of virtual reality’s big hits may be educational, says PlayStation engineer
- 2016.09.07 Improving the deduplication flow when uploading to Google Drive
- 2016.09.09 This $35 Computer Just Passed a Major Sales Milestone
- 2016.09.09 FCC Takes Huge Step Toward Killing The Cable Set-Top Box For Good
- 2016.09.10 Everything Apple Announced Today At Their iPhone 7 Event That Actually Matters
- 2016.09.21 Arya.ai’s Braid Aims to Weave Together Neural Network Components
- 2016.09.21 Udacity Fuels Autonomous Vehicle Engineering Dreams
- 2016.09.21 All the New Features in macOS Sierra
- 2016.10.10 Google Plasters Its Name on a New Hardware Collection
- 2016.12.29 Microsoft, Qualcomm Tuck Windows 10 Into ARM Devices
- 2016.12.29 New Smartwatch OS Debuts on GitHub
- 2016.12.29 Microsoft and Intel’s Project Evo Ups the PC Game
- 2017.05.12 Microsoft to sell mixed-reality headset and controllers for $399, undercutting Oculus
- 2017.05.12 Verizon outbids AT&T for nationwide “5G” spectrum
- 2017.05.12 Elon Musk says Tesla will begin selling solar roof tiles
- 2017.05.12 Google is making 360-degree cameras Street View-ready
- 2018.01.29 New Open Source Mobile OS Puts Privacy Front and Center
Technology – Devices & Smart home
- 2016.05.23 Google Plots Home Invasion
- 2016.06.13 Devs Light Up for Alexa
- 2016.06.13 Zenbo Home Robot Pours on the Charm
- 2016.06.21 Plume Podifies Home WiFi
- 2016.08.07 Alexa Takes On Smart Home Security Responsibilities
- 2016.08.10 Nucleus Home Intercom Gets Alexa Advantage
- 2016.08.15 The $99 Peripheral that Turns Your Smartphone Into a Laptop
- 2016.08.18 Intel’s Project Alloy Tosses Reality Into a Blender
- 2016.08.24 Netgear’s plan to solve awful Wi-Fi is a second router
- 2016.08.29 The Best Smart Lights You Can Buy
- 2016.08.29 Leap Motion wants picking up VR objects to feel believable
- 2016.09.07 Wacom’s latest smartpads marry pen and paper with digital notes
- 2016.09.07 Is Snapchat planning to build an AR device?
- 2016.09.07 How to improve your wireless signal
- 2016.09.21 5 genius ways to repurpose your old iPhone
- 2016.10.10 Google: There’s No Hub Like Home
- 2016.10.10 Snap Unveils Eye-Popping Camera Spectacles
- 2016.10.10 AirBar is a USB device that adds a touchscreen to laptops
- 2017.05.12 10 of the best things you can do with the Amazon Echo
- 2017.05.13 Amazon’s ‘Echo Show’ Gives Alexa the Touchscreen It Needed
- 2017.05.13 Do smudges on your phone’s camera make photos look worse?
- 2018.01.25 Apple’s HomePod Set to Barge Into Hot Speaker Market
- 2018.01.29 Google Device Bug Chokes Home WiFi Networks
- 2018.02.01 Privacy-Minded Smart Speaker May Struggle to Get to Know You
- 2018.02.01 Alexa Now Can Dash Off Text Messages to Android Phones
- 2018.02.13 Intel’s Smart Peepers Look Smart, Too
Technology – Apps & Tools
- 2016.05.03 Fedora-Based Sugar on a Stick Is One Sweet Desktop
- 2016.06.13 ReactOS Is a Promising Open Source Windows Replacement
- 2016.07.26 Polaroid Swing Gives New Meaning to Moving Pictures
- 2016.08.02 New Office 365 Features Help Build a Better Research Paper
- 2016.08.24 How to Enable Chrome OS Developer Channel, Try New Features
- 2016.08.24 Instantly See Every Keyboard Shortcut on Your Chromebook with This Combo
- 2016.09.09 Google Maps’ App Adds Alternatives to Booking an Uber Ride
- 2016.09.09 11 best apps for timid first-time investors
- 2016.09.10 Cub Linux Is a Worthy Chromixium Offspring
- 2016.09.10 Google’s Hangouts Extension Operates More Like Its Own App Now
- 2016.09.21 Dark Sky, the Up-to-the-Minute Weather App, Now Works In Your Browser
- 2016.09.21 Google Drive Search Just Got a Lot Smarter