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May 2014

May 14, 2014

The right to be forgotten

The highest court of the European Union has ruled that Google and other search engines...

May 07, 2014

How the Egyptians moved those big stones

No, it wasn't aliens who moved those massively huge blocks for the Pyramids. An ancient...

April 2014

April 14, 2014

Encrypting the internet on the cheap

"Heartbleed" is the name of a major bug found in some encryption software that nearly...

April 10, 2014

New car fever

You don't need a new car, said one of the Tappet brothers on Car Talk,...

April 09, 2014

Bible reading in the digital age

In answer to my question about how reading conditioned by the internet might affect the...

April 08, 2014

Does the internet degrade our ability to read?

There is some evidence that the way we read on the internet--skimming, surfing, hopping from...

April 07, 2014

Less cash, less crime

Cash is portable, hard to trace, and universally-accepted, no questions asked. Which makes it a...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Wiping out your social media debts

Thanks to Anthony Sacramone for alerting me to this Portlandia bit, Declare Social-Media Bankruptcy |...

March 24, 2014

Just let Google run the country?

Justine Tunney, one of the founders of Occupy Wall Street, is calling on President Obama...

March 19, 2014

The mystery of the missing cell phone calls

A related mystery in the case of the missing airliner. Whatever happened, why didn't--or haven't--any...

March 17, 2014

U.S. giving up control of the Internet

What do you think of this? U.S. officials announced plans Friday to relinquish federal government...

March 17, 2014

The missing plane kept flying

The plot thickens in the mystery of the missing Boeing 777. After the transponder went...

March 12, 2014

Happy 25th birthday to the Internet

The "world wide web" came into existence 25 years ago today, making the internet as...

March 11, 2014

The mystery of the missing Boeing 777

On Saturday, Malaysian Airlines flight 370, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers,...

February 2014

February 20, 2014

Music and Politics

Music streaming site Pandora is claiming that it can tell how their listeners will vote...

February 17, 2014

Technologies of Glory

Brandon Bennett writes about those who relate human technological prowess to man becoming god. He...

February 06, 2014

Getting information about a person just by staring

There is a new app that would give anyone access to facial recognition software. Use...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

What NSA can learn from your “Angry Birds” app

According to secret documents released by Edward Snowden, certain cellphone apps--including the popular game "Angry...

January 16, 2014

Google invading your car

If you have a newish car, you can already integrate it with your smartphone, answering...

January 07, 2014

The sensorization of consumer tech

The big thing out of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas? Biometrics. Eye-tracking...

December 2013

December 30, 2013

Outlawing light bulbs

The manufacture of traditional incandescent light bulbs will be illegal, as of January 1. Compact...

December 26, 2013

Scientific discovery or technological breakthrough of the year?

Along the lines of the amplituhedron, above, what would you say was the top scientific...

December 13, 2013

How the FBI uses hackers and malware

The FBI has some new crime-fighting technology in its collective utility belt. FBI-employed hackers can...

December 12, 2013

NSA is monitoring online games

Apparently terrorists, military operatives, and spies in real life also like to pretend that they...

December 11, 2013

What the NSA can do with cell phone data

He knows when you've been sleeping. He knows when you're away. He knows if you've...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

NSA tracking porn visits to discredit enemies

According to a document leaked by Edward Snowden, the NSA has been tracking visits to...

November 19, 2013

Google to fight child pornography

Who says nothing can be done about online pornography? Google is not only applying technological...

October 2013

October 24, 2013

Behind the HealthCare.gov fiasco

We are learning that the problems with HealthCare.gov, the website that is the portal to...

October 24, 2013

Catechism app

Get Luther's Small Catechism for your smartphone, for free. It isn't exactly an app, but...

October 07, 2013

The Obamacare rollout debacle

Obamacare got off to an inauspicious start as the website that people were supposed to...