November 14, 2022 Surveying the Digital Explosion Connected computers have changed the world perhaps more than any other single invention. The impacts of nearly instant global communication and effectively infinite, perfect…
November 26, 2018 Lock Down Your Privacy on Your Mobile Devices Our mobile phones today are chock full of private information and are constantly tattling about our whereabouts and activities. Most phones today have GPS,…
November 19, 2018 The Best & Worst Gifts for 2018 The gift-giving season is once again upon us! “Smart” devices make great presents, but you want to make sure that you’re not also giving…
November 12, 2018 Phone Scammers Are Spoofing Your Caller ID Just because the caller ID says it’s the IRS or the Social Security Administration, don’t believe it. It’s almost surely a scammer trying to…
November 5, 2018 Why You Should Care About the Future of Computing Your physical world is governed by many laws and regulations that protect your freedom and privacy. Why should the digital world be any different?…
October 29, 2018 Marketers Are Tracking You On and Off the Web We all know how marketers are tracking our every move on the world wide web. But now they’re starting to track you in the…
October 22, 2018 The Fight for Net Neutrality is Far from Over The reports of net neutrality’s death have been greatly exaggerated. We still have time for Congress to reinstate the federal rules that were struck…
October 15, 2018 Did China Implant Spy Chips in Our Computers? Bloomberg claims that Chinese manufacturers have implanted tiny spy chips into many of our computer systems. Apple, Amazon and others strenuously deny this. Who’s…
October 8, 2018 How to Protect Yourself From Ransomware Ransomware, the malware that locks up your data and hold it for ransom, has been growing by leaps and bounds in the past few…
October 1, 2018 Big Companies Behaving Badly: The Facebook Breach Explained Between 50 and 90 million Facebook users’ accounts were exposed, appearing to give hackers full access as if they were logged in as you….