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News Facebook Virtual Assistant Featured

Facebook Working on AI Virtual Assistant to Be Competitor to Siri and Alexa

It’s being reported that Facebook is working on an artificial intelligence virtual assistant to compete with Siri and Alexa. It could be useful to their Portal device.

By Laura Tucker – Apr 18, 2019

News Playstation 5 Details Featured

Sony Reveals Details of PlayStation 5 Due in 2020

Sony revealed a few details of their next generation game system, “PlayStation 5,” including 8K graphics, 3D audio, speedy SSDs, and backwards compatibility.

By Laura Tucker – Apr 17, 2019

Ransomware Jailed Featured

Man Arrested For Spreading “Shame-Driven” Ransomware

Hackers always have to resort to new tactics to get the victim to pay up. A recent ransomware author used the victims’ porn habits against them.

By Simon Batt – Apr 16, 2019

News Hotel Reservations Featured

You May Not Be Only Person Seeing Hotel Reservation Booking Details

When you make hotel reservations, you may not be the only one with access to booking documents. Symantic found flaws on many hotel websites showing leaks.

By Laura Tucker – Apr 11, 2019

News Distracted Driving Featured

Going in Wrong Direction: Distracted Driving Up 10% in 2018

A recent study shows that it doesn’t matter in what ways technology tries to help eliminate phone distractions; distracted driving was up in 2018 by 10 percent.

By Laura Tucker – Apr 10, 2019

News Sleep Tracking App Featured

Sleep-Tracking Apps and Devices May Not Indicate Quality of Sleep

It turns out you don’t need to worry about sleep-tracking data, as the sleep-tracking apps and devices may not indicate the quality of your sleep.

By Laura Tucker – Apr 9, 2019

Repair Scam Featured

Office Depot and Support.com Fined for Fake Malware Reports

Recently, Office Depot and Support.com were collectively fined $35 million dollars for lying to customers about fake malware reports. Here’s how to protect yourself.

By Simon Batt – Apr 8, 2019

News Iphone Counterfeit Repair Featured

College Students Allegedly Ran Counterfeit iPhone Repair Scam and Made $1M

Two Chinese college students carried out a counterfeit iPhone repair scam where they turned in faulty counterfeit iPhones to Apple who replaced $1M in iPhones.

By Laura Tucker – Apr 5, 2019

News Amazon Police Facial Recognition Featured

Amazon Criticized for Selling Faulty Facial-Recognition Tech to Police

Amazon is being taken to task by artificial intelligence researchers in an open letter for selling its flawed facial recognition technology, “Rekognition,” to police.

By Laura Tucker – Apr 4, 2019

News Facebook Algorithm Featured

Facebook Finally Shows Us Their Frustrating News Feed Algorithm

By Laura Tucker – Apr 2, 2019

News Toyota Dealership Data Breach Featured

Customer Data at Risk After Toyota and Lexus Dealerships Hacked in Japan

Data breaches can hit anywhere. It was confirmed that Toyota and Lexus dealerships in Japan suffered a data breach of customer data on March 21.

By Laura Tucker – Apr 1, 2019

News Google Stadia 5g Featured

Until You Have 5G, Google Stadia May Need Additional Hardware to Run Properly

Users of early versions of Google Stadia have reported that it can be difficult to play games smoothly. You may need additional hardware to play without 5G.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 29, 2019

AI Algorithms Show More Accuracy at Determining Early Death Predictions

Artificial algorithms are now showing more accuracy determining early death, according to research using deep learning and random forest machine learning.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 28, 2019

Viral Birth Year Twitter Hoax Will Lock You Out of Account

The viral birth year Twitter hoax promises a Twitter advantage if you change your birth year in your profile, but what really happens is you get locked out of your account.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 27, 2019

Apple 2019 Event: Apple TV+, Apple News+, Apple Arcade, Apple Card

In addition to Apple TV+ news, at the Apple 2019 event on Monday we heard about three other services: Apple News+, Apple Arcade, and Apple Card.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 26, 2019

Google Limiting Gmail Options in IFTTT by End of March

IFTTT sent ot a notice to users that a number of Gmail actions will no longer work in Applets at the end of March due to “Google implementing changes to their API ecosystem.”

By Laura Tucker – Mar 25, 2019

Nokia Phones Sending Data to Chinese Servers without User Knowledge

Some Nokia phones have been sending data back to servers in China without user consent. Nokia has admitted that this happened to Nokia 7 Plus phones.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 22, 2019

Call of Duty Coming to iOS and Android. Pre-Register for Beta

Are you a COD fan? Activision has announced it will be launching Call of Duty: Mobile for iOS and Android soon, and you can sign up to be a beta tester today.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 21, 2019

Google Announces Stadia Game-Streaming Service

On Tuesday Google made it official at the Game Developers Conference and announce a new game-streaming service they are calling Stadia that works without a console.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 20, 2019

Google Breaking into the Game-Streaming Market

Google has been working on the idea to implement a game streaming service. In addition, this is expected to include the “Yeti” console.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 18, 2019

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Bright modern laboratory with computers and technical equipment for research and analysis.

ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

Jun 9, 2026

In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it was in development — it demanded twice the memory of a typical home PC, sold roughly 30,000 copies, and was dead within a year, leaving behind the font Comic Sans and the animated assistant that became Clippy.

Jun 9, 2026

Stunning underwater shot of tiger sharks swimming among fish in the ocean depths.

The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies.

Jun 9, 2026

French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground

Jun 9, 2026

A person using a smartphone with a green screen surrounded by fresh fruits and vegetables in the kitchen.

When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter nobody had quite prepared for — a tally of pickups — and within a day Tim Cook was telling CNN the number of times he picked up his own phone was simply too many

Jun 9, 2026

Starry night with radio towers and the Milky Way galaxy visible overhead.

When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked up its signal in January 2018 while hunting for a classified spy satellite, and the spacecraft turned out to be still spinning, still powered, and still trying to phone home after 13 years of silence.

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