Wield your phone as a lightsaber with Google’s latest Chrome experiment
Google has launched a new Chrome Experiment that pairs your phone with your desktop and allows you to wield it as a lightsaber.
Man arrested in UK over suspicion of involvement in VTech attack
U.K. authorities have arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of "unauthorized access" to a computer, believed to be in relation to November's VTech breach.
You can now share emails about trips with just one tap with Inbox by Gmail
The Inbox team at Google has made sharing all those emails you get when you're planning a trip easy. With just one tap, you can send trip bundles to anyone.
Japan won’t stop whaling, so Anonymous hacked the Japanese Prime Minister
Hacking group Anonymous claimed responsibility for the shut-down of the Japanese Prime Minister's official website. Congratulations from online whaling critics followed.
Google searches may help predict the spread of STDs
To combat the spread of STDs, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have added an interesting weapon to their arsenal --Â Google searches.Â
Some Airbnb hosts have a race problem, study says
A new study suggests that Airbnb guests with "black-sounding" names are 16 percent less likely to be accepted into a room than their white counterparts.Â
Protect yourself from cyberbullying with Chubbs' Trolling Insurance
We may not be able to catch all the trolls on the Internet, but now, we can get insured against them.Â
Stop everything! The first episode of Serial Season 2 is online now
Everybody grab your earbuds and put your downloading gloves on, because the podcast that rekindled the media's love affair with audio journalism is back.
Could this be the end for Yahoo? Board decides to spin off core Web business
Yahoo has made a U-turn on plans to spin-off its Alibaba shares into its own business, instead looking to spin-off its core Web business, or both.
Kazakhstan mandates Internet backdoor, modeled after China’s Great Firewall
Lawmakers in Kazakhstan are forcing Internet users across the country to install a sort of backdoor system which would allow for government surveillance.
Hello Barbie is hackable, exposes children’s conversations with the doll
Hello Barbie, a version of the beloved doll that comes with Wi-Fi and speech recognition technology, is vulnerable to hacking.
VTech ‘cannot confirm’ if kids’ chat logs and photos were compromised by security breach
The VTech security breach took place on November 14. Since then, the manufacturer has been working to learn what data was accessed.Â
Goodbye fear and anxiety: Use an Internet Purchase Exchange Location to grab your Craigslist bargain
Use oldweb.today to see what the Internet looked like in the '90s
Missing the days of yore? Or, more specifically, the Internet days of yore? Miss no more, thanks to oldweb.today, which will satisfy your strange desire to revisit the early days of the Internet.
EFF wants Google to stop tracking schoolchildren’s Internet searches
EFF says Google has been "collecting and data mining school children’s personal information, including their Internet searches."
The Darknet Shopper bot is back on the Deep Web; let’s see what it buys next
The bot designed to shop on the Deep Web is out of police company and shopping again. It's only a matter of time until it buys something crazier.
Anonymous hacks ISIS site, replaces it with Viagra ad
On Thursday, the Ghost Sec, a hacking group related to Anonymous, gained control of a website supporting the Islamic State and replaced it with a Viagra ad.
Microsoft adds 35,000 traffic cameras to Bing Maps
New functionality for Microsoft's Bing Maps service allows users to check on traffic conditions in real time.
This is how you should shop on Black Friday, according to Google
Here are a few pro tips from the folks at Google to help you do Black Friday better than you've ever done it before.Â
ISIS has a 24/7 ‘Jihadi Help Desk’ to aid would-be terrorists
There is a 24/7 'Jihadi help desk' of sorts, meant to spread ISIS's extremist propaganda via the Internet worldwide and support would-be terrorists.
Is that a Google ad or a search result? Kids can’t tell
Despite all their technical prowess, kids still as naive as we were at their age -- at least, when it comes to Google ads and Google search results.
YouTube changes its tune, will now defend select channels against DMCA takedowns
YouTube will defend select video creators from DMCA abuse with a new $1 million legal protection fund.
The UK is taking the fight against ISIS online
The UK is taking proactive measures to guard its infrastructure against cyberattack by ISIS.
Callisto is a new sexual assault reporting system for the 21st century
Callisto intends to "provide a more empowering, transparent, and confidential reporting experience for college sexual assault survivors."
How do Americans really feel about tech? A Modis survey gives us some insight
A new survey from Modis gives us some insight into how Americans really feel about the booming tech industry.
