News Index

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