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Earlier this week, the FBI arrested a Texan man for trying to “blow up the internet.” But is that even possible?
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It shouldn’t come as a surprise that social media giant Facebook knows a lot about you. Most people fill out their profile information as thoroughly as possible, allowing them to connect to more people.
Besides signing into different websites and services with your Facebook credentials, you could reasonably expect that it stops tracking you as soon as you leave the platform. After all, what business does it have knowing what you do? Another Facebook data breach? Tap or click here to find out if your account was exposed.
There is nothing worse than sending off a business email or posting a blog entry, only to realize later that you have typos or poor grammar. How did that happen? After all, you use Microsoft Word, which has a built-in spell-checking feature. Unfortunately, this type of spell checker is basic, nothing fancy.
Smartphones have made the internet even more widespread than before their advent. Now we are connected 24/7. Many of us need the internet for our jobs as well.
What happens when you don’t have a signal or an open hotspot? You bring one with you, of course! Thanks to mobile hotspots, we can now be connected to our social media and email wherever we go. Tap or click here to find out how to set up a mobile hotspot.
We all can use a little support lately. There’s enough to worry about without pulling your hair out over the tech that currently drives careers, social engagement and education.
When something goes wrong with a device or service, you reach out to customer support. But what do you do if they reach out first, seemingly out of the blue? The truth is it’s most likely a scam. Tap or click here to see how to spot these types of crooked dealings.
For many, social media platforms are the primary way of communicating with friends and family during the pandemic. It has also served as a great way for people to remain in contact with old acquaintances.
But recently several social media platforms have come under attack from hackers, stealing millions of records and personal information. Earlier this month, hackers made off with 533 million Facebook records. Tap or click here to find out if your account was exposed.
Are you a master of disguise, or do you have a solid poker face? Think that you could fool artificial intelligence with your facial movements?
A group of social scientists created a game where the AI is designed to read your emotions through facial expressions. Tap or click here for a frightening example of how thieves are using AI to create ransomware threats.
Ever hear about a digital footprint? Well, unless you’re a survival camper in the woods, you have one. With most of us living our lives online through social media, you’d be horrified to find out how much the internet knows about you. Tap or click here to see everything Google knows about you with one search.
Remember those commercials from the ’90s with Yahoo that made you laugh and think Yahoo was ridiculous? You aren’t alone. Out of Yahoo came what was supposed to be a serious Q and A platform, Yahoo Answers.
Yahoo Answers was supposed to be a serious place to get answers to important questions like Quora. The internet didn’t see it that way. It turned more into a laugh, and the memes that came from it were fantastic. Tap or click here for Google search alternatives.
We can all use a little extra money during these trying times. You can start by unloading some unneeded clutter from your place. This is great if you’re working from home and not going anyplace during the day anyway.
Do you have a Chromebook in your arsenal of gadgets? If you don’t know, they are similar to a laptop but just a little bit different. Chromebooks run on Chrome OS, which was specifically built to be used with an internet connection.
