Ever wondered how Facebook comes up with some of your random friend suggestions? Turns out, Facebook uses your phones location along with other data. Facebook's Suggested Friends category is usually full of casual acquaintances, old friends from high school and other...
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How to make your phone number private
Whether you're getting quotes from car dealers, setting up an online dating account or returning a work call from your personal phone, there are times when keeping your number private makes sense. Fortunately, there are options for short term "burner" numbers, virtual...
Harvard, the Mayo Clinic and Google team up to help your self-diagnosis with new symptom search
If some part of your body itches or burns, you’ve probably searched for free medical advice on Google. But an overload of results can have you mistaking an allergic reaction for an STD — or vice versa. Either way, it’s no fun. Over the next few days Google is rolling...
Cars outpace mobile phones in cell service connections
According to mobile consultants at Chetan Sharma, more cars were added to mobile networks in the US market than phones in the first quarter of 2016. Cars made up nearly a third of new connections (32%) according to Chetan Sharma's research, followed closely by phone...
Clothes that will wirelessly charge your phone
Hiral Sanghavi is at it again. Less than a year after the Kickstarter campaign for his BauBax jacket raised a whopping $9.2 million, he's debuting his next project -- clothes that wirelessly charge your devices. The project launched Tuesday on Kickstarter with a goal...
Alarming increase in ransomware attacks
The number of reported encryption ransomware attacks has soared to 718,536 users between April 2015 and March 2016 – 5.5 times greater than the same period 2014-2015. Because the data held for ransom is high value and irretrievable unless the ransom is paid, victims...
Cloud usage will become part of every business’ overall strategy by 2020
By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today, says research firm Gartner. Cloud-first, and even cloud-only, is replacing the defensive no-cloud stance that dominated many large providers in recent years. Today, most...
Synthetic Identity Theft is more common than outright ID theft, and growing daily
Legendary Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis said, "Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman." Never were truer words spoken when it...
6 ways to light up your nighttime run or walk
If you live in an area with a lot of traffic, but not so many street lights, you’ll want to bring your own illumination with you. That’s why we put together this collection of 6 products for lighting up your runs. Whether you want to light up the path ahead of you or...
The best new features of iOS 10
Apple took the wraps off of the latest version of its iOS operating system at its big developers conference Monday, and it promises to bring a boatload of new features to your iPhone and iPad. Available later this fall, iOS 10 is one of the largest updates to the...
75% of businesses are at huge risk for cyber attack
Organizations that invest in detection and response technologies, rather than perimeter-based solutions, are better poised to defend against cyber incidents. The Security Division of EMC surveyed 878 respondents across 81 countries and more than 24 industries, and...
Technology is improving – why is rural broadband access still a problem?
Whether you live in the Northern Neck of Virginia or the Appalachian Mountains, broadband access is hit or miss. There is a well-documented "digital divide" between rural and urban areas when it comes to broadband access. As of 2015, 74 percent of households in urban...