by Jim Brooker | Apr 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
Swedish company Epicenter will embed a chip into about 150 workers, so bosses can monitor toilet breaks and how long they work. The workers volunteered to have the microchip, which is about as big as a grain of rice, implanted for free. Patrick Mesterton, co-founder...
by Jim Brooker | Apr 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
You may soon see faster connections on your cellular service. But your Wi-Fi connection may pay the price. Thanks to a recent regulatory decision, wireless companies like Verizon and T-Mobile will soon be transmitting data in the same part of the public airwaves...
by Jim Brooker | Apr 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
Every year seems to be “the year of” something in cybersecurity. In 2013, it was “the year of the financial breach.” In 2014, the “year of the retail hack.” In 2015, we saw at shift to healthcare and, in 2016, ransomware reigned. 2017 is already shaping its own theme....
by Jim Brooker | Apr 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
When it comes to online harassment, fake news and internet trolls, the forecast looks stormy. It may be time to give up the ship on a civil internet. The Pew Research Center and the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University surveyed about 1,500 technology...
by Jim Brooker | Mar 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
If you are trying to prune your phone’s collection of apps, here are some steps to take to find the ones that should get the hook first. It can be tempting to let apps accumulate on your phone until you start to run out of space, but apps you don’t use still have...
