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Laura Tucker

Laura has spent more than 20 years writing news, reviews, and op-eds, with the majority of those years as an editor as well. She has exclusively used Apple products for the past 35 years. In addition to writing and editing at MTE, she also runs the site’s sponsored review program.

Mark Zuckerberg: Most Facebook Users Should Assume Their Data Has Been Compromised

When the news of Facebook’s data breach became known, it sent many into a panic. Mark Zuckerberg admitted that most users should assume their data has been compromised.

News – Apr 6, 2018

Not Ready for Cloud Computing Yet? Buckle Up for Edge Computing

Now there’s another technology coming into play: edge computing. It’s not replacing cloud computing so much as implementing it to make your apps and devices work better overall.

News – Apr 5, 2018

Use Cloudflare’s New DNS Service to Speed Up the Internet While Also Protecting Your Data

Cloudflare seems to be solving two issues in one with their new Domain Name System (DNS) service. They are making claims of having the fastest DNS available presently while also promising to keep your browsing history safe.

News – Apr 4, 2018

All Your Fears Imagined: Here’s What Google Knows About You

With all the talk surrounding what Facebook has been doing with data, people haven’t even been mentioning the information that Google collects. An IT consultant decided to find out what Google knew about him and was shocked.

News – Mar 30, 2018

VPNs Are Supposed to Keep Your Privacy, But Some Keep Logs on You as Well

One of the main reasons to use a VPN is to keep your information private, but some of the most popular VPNs are actually keeping logs on you, even after promising that they won’t.

News – Mar 28, 2018

The Danger of 2 Million Spotify Users Figuring Out How to Use It Ad-Free

At first it seems exciting to read that two-million Spotify users figured out how to use the service ad-free, as we all hate ads, especially when you want to listen to your music uninterrupted, but this isn’t really a good thing overall.

News – Mar 27, 2018

Joyoshare HEIC Converter for Mac Makes It Easy

One lesser-known change in iOS 11 is the change of the image format from JPEG to HEIC. But you have options, including Joyoshare HEIC Converter that will take care of the issues quickly and easily.

Mac – Mar 26, 2018

A Smartphone Battery Lasting a Month? 5G Could Make It So

Imagine not having to worry about charging your smartphone for an entire month. Lowell McAdam, the Verizon CEO, thinks it could happen along with 5G.

News – Mar 23, 2018

The Self-Driving Car Industry Experiences Its First Pedestrian Death

The self-driving car industry has experienced its first pedestrian death when an autonomous Uber car struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona.

News – Mar 21, 2018

IBM Still in the Game with a Computer Smaller than a Grain of Salt

While at one time people were amazed that we could fit a whole computer into a phone that we keep in our pockets, now IBM has created one that is smaller than a grain of salt.

News – Mar 20, 2018

Mozilla Working on Getting Rid of In-Page Popups

Mozilla wants to help eliminate in-page popups or at least provide something in the Firefox browser that makes it easier to work around them. Read on to find out more.

News – Mar 16, 2018

The Latest Use for 3D Printing: $4000 Homes in 24 Hours

An Austin-based startup has found a new way to use 3D printing. They’re using it to solve the housing crisis by creating homes for just $4000 that can be produced within 24 hours.

News – Mar 14, 2018

Advances Made in Effort to Use AI for Brain Implants

Using artificial intelligence for brain implants doesn’t sound quite so far-fetched, and researchers are backing that up.

News – Mar 13, 2018

Windows Defender Does Its Job and Prevents Geographic Malware Attack

Yet another malware attack has been discovered, but the good news is Windows Defender did its job and prevented 400,000 attacks within a short amount of time.

News – Mar 9, 2018

New Malware Steals Cryptocurrency by Lifting from Your Clipboard

For decades the clipboard has been an everyday occurrence of the computing experience. But now attackers have found their way to your clipboard so that they can insert malware that will steal your cryptocurrency.

News – Mar 8, 2018

Technology Now Reaching to Food and Drugs with Edible Electronics

What if there was a way to add electronics to your food and your drugs? Interestingly, they have already figured out how to do it.

News – Mar 6, 2018

“The Notch:” Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

Apple finally got around to adding a bezelless display to the iPhone last fall and added “the notch.” Many people find it ugly; however, it’s suddenly become the new trend in smartphones. Why is that?

News – Mar 5, 2018

Is This the Future of Computing – A Virtual PC to Run on Any Device?

What if no matter what device you were on all of your information and accounts always had a way of finding you? Sounds great, doesn’t it? There are already virtual PCs that exist solely in the cloud.

News – Mar 1, 2018

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Find My iPhone Feature Finds Computer After It’s Erased and Sold

An employee of Google sold his old iMac on Craigslist only to find that the Find My iPhone feature was still tracking it three years later despite being erased and having a clean install. What can you do to be sure this doesn’t happen to you?

News – Feb 27, 2018

Impostor Social Media Accounts Continue Because of Weak Enforcement of Rules

Social media is coming under fire for the existence of impostor accounts by not enforcing their own rules and just letting these accounts hang on.

News – Feb 24, 2018

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A person in a redwood forest admires the majestic, towering trees in black and white.

In August 2006, naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor waded into a remote grove in Redwood National Park and pointed a laser rangefinder at a tree that turned out to be 380 feet tall, and the National Park Service has refused to disclose its location ever since, fearing the foot traffic alone would kill it.

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Female engineer testing sound waves in an anechoic chamber with a monitor.

Inside a six-walled wedge-foam chamber on Microsoft’s Redmond campus, the background sound is so far below human hearing that visitors start to perceive the grinding of their own joints, the rush of blood in their ears, and eventually a faint ringing that turns out to be the firing of their own nerves.

Jun 2, 2026

Psychology suggests people who browse social media but never post or comment aren’t passive — they’ve simply opted out of the performance while retaining access to the information, which is a sign of quiet self-awareness

Jun 2, 2026

In 1964, IBM risked its entire corporate empire on the System/360, a chaotic gamble to make all of its future machines compatible with the same software — and the architecture proved so robust that modern enterprise mainframes today are still running sections of binary code written more than sixty years ago

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In 1982, a Soviet pipeline suddenly exploded with the force of a tactical nuclear weapon, and the disaster was traced back to a stolen piece of Canadian pipeline software — and years later, it was revealed the CIA had intentionally allowed the KGB to steal the code, after subtly altering the software’s logic to trigger a catastrophic pressure surge months down the line.

Jun 2, 2026

In the early 1980s, a Dutch radio broadcaster figured out how to transmit video games over standard commercial radio broadcasts — and teenagers across Europe would sit with blank cassette tapes waiting for the local station to broadcast a series of high-pitched squeaks and buzzes that they could record and load into their home computers

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