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Ericsson Expired Certificate Took Smartphones Offline in 11 Countries

Ericsson admitting in a blog post that they were responsible for millions of phones in 11 countries going offline after they allowed a certificate to expire.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 10, 2018

Microsoft Wants Facial Recognition to Be Regulated to Prevent Bias

6 months ago Microsoft was fixing their facial recognition software to prevent bias, and now they want to have legislation passed to prevent it happening again.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 7, 2018

New Mobile App Will Detect Anemia with Just Your Fingernails

A new mobile app can detect anemia by just using the camera to examine the user’s fingernails, all without the normally required blood test.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 6, 2018

Google Denies DuckDuckGo’s Claim It’s Following You When Incognito Is On

DuckDuckGo suggests that Google tracks users to deliver personalized search results, even with Incognito turned on. Google disputes this claim.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 5, 2018

Quora Is Next Site to Have User Data Compromised

The website Quora published a blog entry on their site stating they were hacked and had their user data compromised but want to be transparent about the process.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 4, 2018

Some Online Help Agents Are Watching You Type in Chat

What are online help agents so quick to answer you? They know what you’re typing before you click “Send” because they are watching you type.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 3, 2018

Dell.com Hit with Cyber Attack, then Resets All Customer Passwords

Dell.com was hit by a cyber attack t his month when it discovered hackers trying to steal customer data. Five day slater they reset all customer passwords.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 29, 2018

YouTube Deleting Annotations on Videos in January

It’s been awhile since you’ve been able to add annotations to YouTube videos, and now YouTube annotations are going to be removed altogether.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 28, 2018

Amazon Making Same Machine-Learning Courses that Instruct Engineers Available for Free

Amazon announced on Cyber Monday they are making the same machine-learning courses they use to instruct their own engineers available for free.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 27, 2018

Google Discovered Malware Apps in Play Store That Were Downloaded More than 500,000 Times

Google removed 13 malware apps from the Play Store, but this was after it was discovered the Google malware apps were downloaded 500.000 times.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 26, 2018

Microsoft Experiments with Ads in Windows Mail

Without warning, the Windows Mail app began to display advertisements. Users can only go “ad-free” by getting a copy of Office 365. Here’s the full details.

By Simon Batt – Nov 24, 2018

How Dropbox Is Improving Workflow with New Extensions

Dropbox has a new way to make their app more user friendly. The new Dropbox extensions allow you to add third-party app integrations to your Dropbox.

By Tracey Rosenberger – Nov 22, 2018

Internet Freedom is on the Decline Worldwide, but All Hope Is Not Lost

Internet freedom has continued its steady eight-year decline in 2018. Certain forces have gotten much more adept at manipulating and monitoring it. Here’s what you need to know about it.

By Andrew Braun – Nov 21, 2018

How an Elon Musk Impersonator Made Off with $180k in Bitcoins on Twitter

Twitter has always had a bit of an impersonation problem. A recent Twitter account impersonating Elon Musk made away with $180K in Bitcoins.

By Simon Batt – Nov 20, 2018

Alphabet to Send Internet Balloons to Kenya in 2019

What If you’re not lucky enough to have access to the Internet? Alphabet will now be sending Internet balloons to Kenya after helping Puerto Rico last year.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 19, 2018

Researchers Use AI to Fake Fingerprints and Trick Biometric IDs

Artificial intelligence researchers have just figured out a way to use AI to develop fake fingerprints to use as a way to trick biometric ID readers.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 16, 2018

Google Maps Will Now Work as a Messaging App. Do We Really Need This?

Google Maps no longer simple provides directions; now it allow you to leave review and send messages. Is Google Maps messages something we need?

By Laura Tucker – Nov 15, 2018

Windows 10 Set to Overtake Windows 7 in Number of Users

Many people won’t be able to continue using Windows 7 for long as Windows 10 users will soon overtake the number of 7 users, and 7 support is ending anyway.

By Simon Batt – Nov 14, 2018

Samsung Testing Brain-Controlled TV

The Samsung brain-controlled TV prototype is meant to help people with physical disabilities. Will we someday be controlling all our devices with our brains?

By Laura Tucker – Nov 12, 2018

Windows 10 Pro Systems Accidentally Downgraded into Windows 10 Home

Microsoft has warned that activation servers have started accidentally downgrading Windows 10 Pro systems to Windows Home after upgrading.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 9, 2018

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When Sony shipped the first Walkman in 1979, chairman Akio Morita insisted on a second headphone jack and a “hotline” talk button, convinced it would be rude for one person to listen to music alone — and within a few years buyers had ignored the sociable features so completely that Sony quietly dropped them

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Russia still custom-builds the Soyuz return seats for ISS crew members using plaster casts taken weeks before launch, because astronauts grow as much as five centimetres taller during a long-duration stay and a seat moulded to their Earth-shaped spine would no longer fit the body that comes home

Jun 12, 2026

Mycorrhizal fungi colonised plant roots roughly 450 million years ago and biologists now suspect plants could never have moved out of the oceans onto bare rock without them, meaning every forest on Earth — including the redwoods, the Amazon, and the boreal belt — is still running on a partnership older than trees themselves

Jun 11, 2026

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The “CrackBerry” nickname stuck for a reason — and the variable-reward psychology that hooked early-2000s executives on their BlackBerrys is the exact same machinery now running every push notification on every smartphone in your pocket

Jun 11, 2026

Intricate network of tree roots and moss on a forest hillside, showcasing nature's resilience.

Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots

Jun 10, 2026

Close-up of glowing jellyfish swimming gracefully in deep green ocean waters.

A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle, and biologists have so far failed to identify any natural limit to how many times it can do this.

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