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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.

By Laura Tucker – 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.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 27, 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.

By Laura Tucker – 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.

By Laura Tucker – 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.

By Laura Tucker – 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.

By Laura Tucker – 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.

By Laura Tucker – 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.

By Laura Tucker – 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.

By Laura Tucker – 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.

By Laura Tucker – 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.

By Laura Tucker – 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?

By Laura Tucker – 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.

By Laura Tucker – 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?

By Laura Tucker – 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.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 24, 2018

Tap Strap: Wearable Bluetooth Keyboard Could Be in Your Future

Bluetooth keyboards have given us a lot of freedom, but a new wearable Bluetooth keyboard by Tap Systems is available that will eliminate the need to touch physical keys.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 23, 2018

Heart Disease Can Be Determined by Google Algorithm

Google has developed an AI algorithm that can determine cardiovascular health and risk of heart disease, and this Google algorithm works all by examining your eyes.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 21, 2018

Can the Stylus Completely Eliminate the Need for a Mouse?

Another implement is knocking on the technology door, and it’s threatening the livelihood of the mouse, and that appears to be Microsoft’s very intention. Can the stylus completely eliminate the need for a mouse?

By Laura Tucker – Feb 20, 2018

MIT Engineers Develop New Energy Source In a Thermal Resonator

The world is always searching for new and different energy sources and continually finds interesting options. Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a cheap new source in a thermal resonator.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 19, 2018

A.I. Being Considered to Fix the Fake News Problem

We’ve been besieged by fake news as of late. But is there a way to fix it? Could A.I. become grand solution to fix the problem of identifying fake news?

By Laura Tucker – Feb 17, 2018

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In 1971, engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the first networked email between two computers sitting side by side in the same room — he chose the @ symbol to separate user from machine because it was the only punctuation on the keyboard nobody was using

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