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03/03/2015

Ikea's Home Smart furniture will wirelessly charge your phone or tablet.

02/12/2015

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Death has always presented a delicate problem for Facebook and other social networks. In theory, the deceased’s timeline is the perfect virtual venue for far-flung friends and family to commiserate and share their memories. But people don’t always leave their pages in a condition that they—…

11/06/2014

With no advance fanfare, Amazon just released a speaker called Echo that's always on and has a built-in personal assistant that you can talk to. It might sound like a weird mashup of features, but it's a recontextualization of the world's Cortanas and Siris that could actually make a lot...

08/26/2014

If you walk into the computer science building at Stanford University, Mobi is standing in the lobby, encased in glass. He looks a bit like a garbage can, with a rod for a neck and a camera for eyes. He was one of several robots developed at Stanford in the 1980s to study how machines…

08/25/2014

Excerpt-"Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they are blocks away or on another continent."

FCC to look into possible misuse of tracking technology that collects location data from carrier databases

07/23/2014

A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.

06/29/2014

Facebook has been experimenting on us. A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that Facebook intentionally manipulated the news feeds of almost 700,000 users in order to study “emotional contagion through social networks.” The researchers, who are affiliated with F…

06/02/2014

A report in The New York Times, based on documents from 2011 obtained by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveal that the US security agency's reliance..

05/22/2014

Excerpt-"The latest version of Facebook for iOS and Android automatically recognizes the song you’re listening to or TV show you’re watching and adds it to your status."

No thank you-opting out!

Last year, Facebook added a new button for posting your "feelings" in a status update. You could type in your anguish, ecstasy, or apathy and see the corresponding emoji appear. You could also add...

03/25/2014

New FB page design ahead! Make sure you are up-to-date on the new tools and functionality. For a tune-up, call Info-2Go at 404-606-8514!

A preview of the updated look coming to Pages.

03/21/2014

Google admits scanning millions of student emails to serve targeted advertisements.

03/01/2014

Oops! Loose lips sink ships, eh?!

A court tosses a Gulliver headmaster’s confidential settlement with school after his daughter boasts about it in post.