We live in a world dominated by screens and technological gadgets. If there’s one thing the modern parent of tweens and teens should worry about in this digital age, then it’s the amount of time their kids spend glued to a screen. Whether it’s the screen of their smartphone, tablet or gaming console, according to […]

Laptops are overtaking desktops for personal use. One of the main reasons why a laptop seems to be the preferred device these days is its ability to be used virtually anywhere, including your bed, couch or a bench in the park. However, if you like to use your laptop while you’re sitting on the sofa, […]

Recently, the Seattle police enlisted the help of car manufacturer BMW to both track and remotely lock a criminal inside of the vehicle he had stolen. This has sparked some spirited debates regarding the remote-lock aspects of vehicles and the ways they can be used. BMW confirmed that they have the power to remotely lock […]

Xperia Ear is Sony’s new intelligent personal assistant. The Sony Mobile smart product is an in-ear personal assistant that can help you communicate and be productive by using conversational voice interaction or simple head gestures. The design strives to provide a new way of communicating, without compromising your attention to the world around you. The […]

Most young people are incapable of determining the difference between real news and fake stories (or “sponsored content”) they encounter online, and have difficulty evaluating online content overall for accuracy and reliability, according to a recent study. Researchers from the Stanford Graduate School of Education surveyed 7,804 middle school to college age students to find […]

The Internet is similar in many ways to an ocean. It connects various multi-cultured regions similar to (albeit much faster than) modern global shipping routes. Like an ocean has a vast surface covering millions of square miles, the Internet’s surface covers millions of topics and services, such as shopping, social media and entertainment. Most users […]

Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager may want to try stealing a page from the Turkish government’s playbook. Censorship monitoring group Turkey Blocks has reported that cloud storage websites and applications, such as Google Drive and Dropbox, have been blocked in the country. The reason, Turkey Blocks surmises, is due to a recent email leak performed by […]

If you’re a Yahoo email user, you should be aware that in 2015 the web giant built a specialised piece of software to scan all incoming emails to all Yahoo mail accounts, searching for certain phrases and statements related to U.S. intelligence. Three former employees have claimed to have seen the surveillance in action and said […]

Washington (AFP) – Facebook, Twitter and news organizations including Agence France-Presse have joined a coalition of  media and technology groups seeking to filter out online misinformation and improve news quality on social networks. Article by AFP First Draft News, which is backed by Google, announced Tuesday that some 20 news organizations will be part of […]

In a recent report, analysts at BofA Merril Lynch told their clients that there is a 20-50 percent chance we’re all living in a virtual reality simulation ala The Matrix films. Article by Melissa Dykes BANK OF AMERICA: There’s a 20%-50% chance we’re inside the matrix and reality is just a simulation Myles Udland pic.twitter.com/TltpYbjPxI […]

Unknown Parties Give Former Florida State Trooper Written Ultimatum Wolfgang Halbig has taken his Sandy Hook Justice Report site offline, apparently at the behest of forces not yet named who have vigorously opposed the school safety expert’s continued investigation of the Sandy Hook school massacre event. As of 4:30PM ET Tuesday August 30 the site is […]

Tens of thousands of subscriber accounts for media company Infowars are being traded in the digital underground. Article by Joseph Cox Infowars, created by famed radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, produces radio, documentaries and written pieces. The dumped data relates to Prison Planet TV, which gives paying subscribers access to a variety of […]

Every time you type in an address on the internet, you can thank the International Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN.) Since 1998, as explained on Icann.org, this U.S. non-profit, for public benefit corporation has been the responsible party for coordinating the millions of numbers and names used as “unique identifiers” on the global internet system. ICANN […]

Forget telephoto lenses and fake mustaches: The most important tools for America’s 35,000 private investigators are database subscription services. For more than a decade, professional snoops have been able to search troves of public and nonpublic records—known addresses, DMV records, photographs of a person’s car—and condense them into comprehensive reports costing as little as $10. […]

Concerns over EMFs, or electromagnetic fields, continue to grow. Electromagnetic fields are also often referred to as their more-correct name, “electromagnetic radiation.” While all of your cellphones, smart meters and other devices that rely on cell towers and WiFi networks may seem totally safe (and super convenient!), the truth is that they come at a […]