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How to turn off this creepy Facebook feature

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...

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...

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...

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...