by Sarah Cowgill | Oct 28, 2017 | Privacy & Tech
Amazon Key, a gadget system that allows couriers to unlock your door, is the latest doohickey unveiled by the online giant. For a mere $249.00, Prime members can purchase Amazon’s Cloud Cam, a Kwikset lock, download an app, and open their door to anyone they choose...
by Doug Davis | Apr 21, 2017 | Politics, Privacy & Tech
Free speech is under attack across America and nowhere is this more evident than on the social platform of Twitter. The powers that be at Twitter have been implementing new algorithms to suppress what it considers to be abusive or low-quality content, as previously...
by Kit Perez | Apr 18, 2017 | Privacy & Tech, Web Gems
By now you’ve probably heard about the Burger King TV commercial, in which a young employee says, “Ok, Google, what is the Whopper burger?” His sentence triggered Google-enabled devices to pull up the Wikipedia entry for the Whopper sandwich, which...
by Dan Ingram | Apr 4, 2017 | Privacy & Tech
A knee-jerk reaction is a tricky reflex to suppress. Splitting cleanly down the middle and lining up behind partisan agendas seems to be what our country does best these days. If a bill were to pass through the Republican-controlled Senate, House, and finally signed...
by Kit Perez | Mar 31, 2017 | Politics, Privacy & Tech
People don’t like being spied on, as a rule. If you looked over your shoulder while using your computer and saw someone looking in your window at what website you were on, you’d have a distinctly negative reaction. If while driving to work you saw a car...