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Facebook Friends Work Restricted List

How to Use Facebook’s Restricted List to Maintain Your Privacy

Control who you want to friend and can see your content on Facebook.

By Alexandra Arici – Feb 25, 2022

Incognito Mode Private Browsing Featured

The Truth Behind Private Browsing or Incognito Mode

Incognito Mode gives users the illusion of privacy and even total anonymity.

By Gaurav Bidasaria – Feb 23, 2022

Android Privacy Sandbox Featured

Google Addresses Ads Privacy with Android Privacy Sandbox

Google just announced “Android Privacy Sandbox,” a new feature that seems to be competition for Apple’s newer privacy practices.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 17, 2022

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How to Make Venmo Private And Protect Your Privacy

Your Venmo’s transaction details are set to public by default. Learn how to make Venmo private and protect your privacy.

By Ryan Lynch – Aug 3, 2021

Duckduckduckgo Email Protection Featured

DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection Service Explained

DuckDuckGo released an email protection service that forwards emails to your inbox. Let’s see how it works and if it is useful.

By David Joz – Jul 23, 2021

Ivacy Vpn Featured

Ivacy VPN Review: Unlock Global Streaming, Cloud Storage, and Privacy

Your privacy is paramount, which means you need a VPN. In this post, we provide a review of Ivacy VPN and show you what it offers.

By Tom Rankin – Jul 22, 2021

Advertisers Apple Privacy Featured

Advertisers Jumping from Apple to Android Because of Privacy

Apple’s new privacy policy has already caused such a shift that advertisers are shying away from Apple, landing on Android.

By Laura Tucker – Jul 7, 2021

Hide Spotify Listening Activity Featured

How to Hide Your Listening Activity on Spotify with These Simple Tips

Hiding your Spotify listening activity is a great way to protect your privacy. Learn how you can use the privacy options to hide listening activity on Spotify.

By Alexandra Arici – May 19, 2021

Peloton Data Leaks Featured

Peloton User Accounts Subjected to Data Leaks

A security researcher discovered the user accounts of Peloton fitness equipment were subject to data leaks, and the company took no action.

By Laura Tucker – May 6, 2021

Android Contact Tracing Featured

Google Ignores Android Contact Tracing App Privacy Flaw

Researchers have found a privacy flaw in the Android contact tracing app meant to warn users when they come in contact with a case of COVID.

By Laura Tucker – Apr 28, 2021

Airdrop Privacy Leaks Featured

Researchers Found Privacy Leaks with Apple’s Airplay

Apple’s AirDrop feature makes it easy to share images and files with people nearby, but researchers have connected AirDrop to privacy leaks.

By Laura Tucker – Apr 26, 2021

Apple Gmail Data Featured

Apple Forces Google to Show Collected Gmail Data on iPhone

Apple’s new privacy feature is having the desired effect. Google has finally revealed the Gmail data that it collects on iPhones and iPads and how it uses it.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 25, 2021

Facebook Apple Ads Featured

Facebook Ads Chastise Apple for Change to iPhone Privacy

Facebook published ads in newspapers chastising Apple for an iPhone policy change while defending “millions of small businesses.”

By Laura Tucker – Dec 17, 2020

Can Hubitat Really Offer A More Private Smart Home

Can Hubitat Really Offer a More Private Smart Home?

Hubitat is a differnet kind of smart home hub. It promises better privacy, but can it really give you a more private smart home?

By Crystal Crowder – Sep 16, 2020

News Youtube Childrens Privacy Featured

YouTube Lawsuit in UK Claims Violation of Children’s Privacy

YouTube is facing a lawsuit in the U.K. that claims it violates children’s privacy. It’s similar to a lawsuit that was brought in the U.S. last year

By Laura Tucker – Sep 15, 2020

Featured Anonymize Google Search

How to Perform a Google Search Anonymously

Google search gets a lot of concern for privacy issues. Luckily, there are certain tweaks that can allow you to do a Google search anonymously.

By Sayak Boral – Jul 8, 2020

Dna Profit Featured

How Your DNA Can Be Sold for Money

How secure do you think your DNA data is? Let’s explore the shady underside of big ancestral trackers and how they sell your DNA for money.

By Simon Batt – Jun 30, 2020

Create Icloud Email Aliases Featured

How to Create iCloud Email Aliases

Learn how you can create iCloud email aliases and use them to send and receive emails without revealing your true email address.

By Shujaa Imran – May 11, 2020

Nextdns Feature

Use NextDNS for More Secure and Private Browsing

NextDNS is a service you should be using: it gives you full control over your privacy, bypasses censorship, makes your requests more secure, and more.

By Andrew Braun – Apr 29, 2020

Apple Google Contact Tracing Feature

How Are Apple and Google Planning to Track COVID-19?

Apple and Google are planning to push out a Bluetooth-based tracking system to help in COVID-19 contact tracing. How effective will it be?

By Andrew Braun – Apr 18, 2020

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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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Octopuses possess roughly 500 million neurons distributed across their body, with two-thirds located in their arms rather than their central brain, meaning each arm can taste, problem-solve, and react to stimuli independently of whatever the octopus is otherwise paying attention to.

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Explore the historic Roman bridge in lush Salamanca, Spain captured beautifully in daylight.

The Roman aqueduct at Segovia, built around the first century AD without mortar, still carried water into the 1970s, its 167 granite arches held together by nothing but the precise weight distribution of stones cut to fit each other within fractions of a millimeter.

Jun 10, 2026

In 1843, Ada Lovelace described a brass-and-punched-card engine that could act on symbols as well as numbers, even composing music if harmony could be reduced to rules, inside seven translator’s notes three times longer than the paper itself

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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.

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