On the eve of my only child's 12th birthday, I find myself contemplating parental choices and wondering how we deal with this Herculean responsibility. My biggest challenge this year is whether or not to finally...
For the past eight years, Republicans have created a fictitious bubble of crazy that only they know the combination to. Facts are for illegal immigrant terrorists and no red-blooded Trumplican can be bothered with such low-energy trivial. In...
Turns out we aren't just being paranoid when we think the National Security Agency (NSA) knows pretty much everything we do. And in this digital age we live in, knowing everything involves our computers and...
John Goodenough, the 94-year-old inventor of the lithium-ion battery, has made more progress in the field. He has created a glass battery that charges within minutes instead of hours.
The new battery is also more powerful,...
When former Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler resigned his post the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, many advocates of net neutrality started writing epitaphs for the free and open internet. That's because when Wheeler, a...
It looks like ‘space race II’ has some real competition now. For the first time ever, a private company has been granted permission by the United States government to land on the moon. Until now,...
It's no secret Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's attempt to hack the election for Donald Trump is hitting a raw nerve in Republican circles. Consider the near-hysterical reactions from Trump diehards, including attempts to have...
For pretty much this entire election, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has gotten flak for the way she handled her emails during her tenure as Secretary of State. Congressional Republicans grilled her for hours about it,...
At least three or four times each week over the last few weeks, I have been scrolling through my Facebook feed and have come across a New York Times op-ed entitled "It's O.K., Liberal Parents,...
People are curious. We want to know things. Things like what happened on TV and who is watching us on Facebook. This curiosity has led to the development of apps like Profile Spy which promise...
A number of teachers across the country from pre-K to high school have begun trying a new way to handle a longstanding issue--monitoring their students' progress in the classroom. Many of them are turning to...
No one can deny that the world of social media has become a volatile place since the election. From friends engaging in ugly arguments on Facebook to nasty tweets being sent over political opinions, verbal...
Automotive manufacturers have posted huge growth in February 2016. As US fuel prices went down significantly, it was expected that sales would rise. But nobody was expecting the best sales figures in the last 16...
Right-wing provocateur Charles C. Johnson has gone over the line--again. Yesterday, after tweeting that he needed help in "taking out" civil rights activist Deray McKesson, Johnson was suspended from Twitter for the fourth time.
On Sunday...
Two weeks ago, Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, warned that almost two decades after the September 11, 2001 attacks, “warning lights are blinking red again” for a devastating cyber assault on critical U.S. infrastructure.
Six months ago, Department of Homeland Security...
Russian meddling in our elections is bad enough.
But if groups of tech-savvy government mandarins are able to infiltrate our social media to disseminate propaganda and disinformation, they are capable of going further.
How about messing with...
Microsoft has released a AI (artificial intelligence) bot for users to talk to online. The bot, Tay, was used on several websites as a chat bot. She was supposed to have the AI of a...
How much is your privacy worth to you?
It's worth a lot to telecommunications companies that provide you access to the internet.
On Monday, President Donald Trump signed into law S.J. Res. 34, repealing internet privacy rules the...
The popular crowdfunding site GoFundMe is taking a severe reaming after announcing that users will no longer be allowed to raise money to fund abortions.
The furor began when GoFundMe abruptly deleted the fundraiser for "Bailey,"...
Who would have imagined people would have to protest for a free and open internet?
Yet that is exactly what is planned to occur outside Federal Communication Commission (FCC) headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, the day...
