I Tried Google Maps’ Experimental Walking Directions of the Future
The perfect scenario for Google’s new Visual Position System, or VPS, is one you’ve probably been in already: Emerging from a subway station in a strange city.…
Category: Technology
The Federal Emergency Management Agency may have put the personally identifying information of millions of disaster survivors at risk of fraud and identity theft, according to a… Read More
It would seem nothing good is ever really free–even in Freetown. Read More
The attorney general for the District of Columbia may have obtained internal company emails showing that Facebook had knowledge of Cambridge Analytica’s data-harvesting efforts months sooner than… Read More
Following an investigative report by the Atlantic on the prevalence of misinformation on Instagram, the company appears to be scrubbing its platform of some popular anti-vaxxer content. Read More
Hundreds of Thousands of Medtronic Defibrillators Could Be Vulnerable to Hacking Due to Flaw
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an alert that some Medtronic implanted defibrillators contain vulnerabilities that would allow them exploited by…
Using apps to keep track of your medication or look up the symptoms of your latest mysterious illness might be convenient. But a new study out this… Read More
A Kentucky teen and his family are suing their local health department over its attempt to protect the public from the chickenpox virus. Read More
A Lithuanian man faces up to 30 years in prison after admitting to his role in a scheme that bilked Google and Facebook out of $121 million,… Read More
Many file sharers want the highest quality copy of a film they can find, and until recently, those would most often come from ripping a 4K Ultra… Read More