How to Keep Your Car from Becoming a High-Tech Death Trap
What if driving your car exposed you to the tender mercies of online criminals the same way that using a credit card at Target last fall or trusting personal information to a Heartbleed-compromised...
View ArticleInventing Outside of the Box
By Adrienne Burke Steven Norris, an editor at Gearburn--a Cape Town, South Africa website chronicling "the latest gadget news from around the world"--admits to being endlessly amused by "staggeringly...
View ArticlePush for Progress
There is an app called "Push for Pizza." The function of the app is exactly what the name suggestions it would be -- after you program your delivery address and payment information, you're one push...
View ArticleTesla Hit By Another Harsh Review
Tesla just got another dent. "Tesla Model S has more than its share of problems," read the headline of Consumer Reports' review, which was posted online Monday. For the second time in a month, a top...
View ArticleThe Disturbing New Trend In 'Grand Theft Auto' Is Virtual Rape
The widely popular "Grand Theft Auto" video-game series lets players get away with a wide range of virtual crimes, including looting and murder. But that's not enough mayhem for some players, who are...
View ArticleFrom Digital Overload to Enlightenment
Immanuel Kant described enlightenment as one's emergence from self-imposed immaturity. But how can a digital addict ever achieve enlightenment with so many distractions, let alone escape immaturity?...
View ArticleIt's a Start-Up World
Over the last decade the number of start-ups in the New York City area has exploded. New York now ranks second in the nation behind Silicon Valley, and its numbers are growing at more than twice the...
View ArticleIs This Your Car?
We've known for months that a new contractor was about to build in our neighborhood. We were excited as well as a bit nervous. New home construction comes with all sorts of variables and challenges for...
View ArticleHow To Watch The Perseid Meteor Shower Online (LIVE VIDEO)
Prepare for the peak! The Perseid meteor shower is set to swing into full view in the overnight hours between Aug. 12 and Aug. 13. The sky show was partially obscured by the supermoon earlier this...
View ArticleThis Flow-Motion Video Provides An Eye-Opening Window Into North Korea
With the abundance of technology available today, it's possible to explore the world's most exotic locations right from our computer screens. However, one place we read about often -- but hardly ever...
View ArticleHow Google Explains the World
I sure hope someone somewhere is archiving all Google autocomplete data. If I were a social anthropologist living in the year 2150, not that far off in the larger scheme of things, I would be very...
View ArticleThe Entire History Of Amazon Kindle In 1 GIF
In case you've forgotten how clunky the Amazon Kindle used to look, check out this new GIF chronicling the e-reader's transformation from 2007 to today. Created by tech review site Gadget Love, the...
View ArticleTim Cook Is 'Not Satisfied' With Apple Workforce Diversity
By Christina Farr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Tuesday released a report on employee diversity, and its numbers are similar to those of other Silicon Valley companies, prompting Chief...
View ArticleMobile Security vs. Blackphone Marketing and Sales Hype
co-authored by Tom Malatesta, CEO, Ziklag Systems For those focused on the subject matter, yesterday's Tweet fest from TeamAndIRC and Blackphone was both curious and good theatre. Silent Circle is a...
View Article'Women Against Feminism' Parody Twitter Account Says 'LOL No Thanks' To...
The "Women Against Feminism" Tumblr has sparked some interesting conversations on the Internet, among both people and cats. And now we can add an LOL-worthy Twitter account to the long list of...
View ArticleNaval War College Professor And Snowden Critic Out After X-Rated Twitter Picture
A frequent Edward Snowden critic and former National Security Agency analyst who was involved in an investigation over "inappropriate" content shared on Twitter is leaving his job at the Naval War...
View ArticleKim Kardashian Did Not Just Kill Candy Crush
Kim Kardashian has been accused of MURDER, everybody. Murder of a video game. But she is innocent. Innocent, I say! The victim is Candy Crush, the super-fun game of, um, crushing candy that simply...
View ArticleIn Suicide Note, Stem Cell Scientist Yoshiki Sasai Blames Media 'Bashing'
A note left behind by a Japanese stem-cell researcher before he took his own life blames the storm of media attention around the retraction of two papers for his suicide, a lawyer working for his...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg Wants Facebook To Hire A Whole Lot More Women
Mark Zuckerberg may want to connect the whole world to the internet, but Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has a different -- and maybe more difficult -- ambition for the social...
View ArticleMan Reacts Through Text To Discovering His Brother Is Gay On Reddit
This warms our cold hearts. When Reddit user thecly provided his brother with his username so that he could see a discussion he was engaged in on the social networking and news site, he forgot that he...
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