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Jul 12, 2020
The scammers use a variety of techniques, and will only get more advanced.
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Jul 12, 2020
Your phone is your constant coronavirus companion. It's there for news, entertainment, work, and communication. It's more important now than ever to make sure your phone doesn't have a digital virus. Tap or click here for the tell-tale signs your phone is infected with malware, a keylogger, or worse.
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Jul 10, 2020
Researchers at the University of Houston claimed to have designed a special air filter that can trap the novel coronavirus and blast it with heat to kill the disease on contact.
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Jul 10, 2020
Researchers at the University of Houston claimed to have designed a special air filter that can trap the novel coronavirus and blast it with heat to kill the disease on contact.
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Jul 10, 2020
What if a U.S. drone was closely tracking an armed enemy vehicle as it transits rough terrain, enters urban areas and comes closer to vulnerable target areas when, all of a sudden, the target leaves a sensor's field of view, becoming seemingly un-trackable? Is targeting lost? Are offensive operations compromised?
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Jul 10, 2020
The tax deadline of July 15 is almost here and the IRS has issued a fresh warning about scams.
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Jul 10, 2020
Now more than ever, the internet is our lifeline to what's going on in the world. We're all scrolling social media, streaming, and reading the news more than ever before.
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Jul 09, 2020
The U.A. Air Force may use its older F-22s as "enemy" fighters in mock-combat exercises as a way to fully prepare F-22 pilots for major air warfare against the most advanced opponents in the world. ??????????????
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Jul 09, 2020
A racial slur that appeared in the CAPTCHA code on a Georgia Department of Public Health website has sparked an investigation by officials and Microsoft.
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Jul 09, 2020
A seagull has gone viral after it was captured on film eating an entire rat in one gulp.
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Jul 08, 2020
The U.S. Army is working to both leverage the advantages of cloud migration and simultaneously ensure data security, taking on what could be characterized as a paradox.
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Jul 08, 2020
The U.S. Army wants future armored vehicles to instantly make decisions about terrain navigation, target identification, incoming enemy fire, force positions and warfare strategy.
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Jul 08, 2020
Fighter jets, stealth bombers, attack drones and air-traveling missiles all need to "operate at speed" in a fast-changing great power conflict era.
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Jul 08, 2020
The companies boycotting Facebook in an effort to fight hate speech have been advertising for years on VK.com, "a Russian social media platform that bans gay-rights groups and is known as a haven for white supremacists," the Washington Free Beacon said in a report this week.
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Jul 08, 2020
At this point, digital privacy is long gone. There's always another device, feature or service tracking what we say, what we look at online and the places we go.
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Jul 07, 2020
The much-anticipated, high-tech B-21 bomber will "come on in two years," bringing new dimensions of stealth, software, attack possibilities and nuclear deterrence to the U.S. Air Force.
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Jul 07, 2020
Senior Air Force commanders are employing new tactics, technologies and protocols to better safeguard drones from being shot down by enemy fire during missions.
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Jul 07, 2020
Owners of a pair of cocker spaniels took amusing photos of their dogs during a wind gust that caused their faces to become contorted, British news agency SWNS reports.
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Jul 06, 2020
After Karl Kasarda's YouTube channel InRange TV was wiped without warning in early 2018, the firearm enthusiast said he had little option but to turn to posting clips and reviews on a platform of a different kind: PornHub.
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Jul 05, 2020
Yes, your iPhone came with a user guide and there a ton of how-to videos on Apple's site and YouTube. But who has the time? You've come to the right place.
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Jul 04, 2020
Years of marriage will hone a spouse's instincts, and we often know when something seems funny. Smartphones, tablets, computers, and smart tech absorb adulterous evidence like a sponge. Once suspicions are aroused, a digital trail could contain many clues about a potential dalliance.
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Jul 02, 2020
A group of black workers filed a class action charge against Facebook, alleging that the company discriminates against African-American workers in hiring, promotions, evaluations and pay.
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Jul 02, 2020
Humans generated a staggering amount of electronic waste in 2019 -- 53.6 million metric tons, which is a 21 percent increase from 2014.
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Jul 02, 2020
It's called "weapons forward," the idea that an airborne fighter jet could control an advancing armed drone traveling into high-threat enemy territory.
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Jul 02, 2020
MIT permanently took down its 80 Million Tiny Images dataset—a popular image database used to train machine learning systems to identify people and objects in an environment—because it used a range of racist, misogynistic, and other offensive terms to label photos.
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Jul 02, 2020
It's called "Direct Attack", or the ability of a stealth bomber to penetrate heavily defended enemy territory and drop bunker-busting weapons, hit moving targets, pinpoint small targets for close-in destruction and carry larger amounts of smaller-bombs for what's called "Stand-in" attack.
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Jul 02, 2020
Amid criticism it is not doing enough to help combat the coronavirus pandemic, Facebook said it would start showing alerts to both users of the main app as well as Instagram to wear face coverings.
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Jul 02, 2020
Bioengineers at UCLA have designed a glove-like device that can translate American Sign Language into English speech in real time with a smartphone app.
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Jul 02, 2020
With coronavirus cases continuing to rise across the U.S., Bill Gates has partly laid the blame on social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter, saying they can do better at curbing the spread of misinformation about the virus.
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Jul 02, 2020
After raiding Usama Bin Laden's compound, the government used artificial intelligence to discover future al-Qaida plans.
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Jul 01, 2020
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has donated an "unprecedented" $20 million through his #startsmall fund to Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE), actor Sean Penn's disaster relief organization, to help fight the coronavirus in the US.
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Jul 01, 2020
A forward-operating Army unit is under heavy fire and poised to attack. The soldiers are armed with small arms weapons, shoulder-fired missiles, drones and even helicopter support, yet commanders need to know which among many targets to hit.
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Jul 01, 2020
Advertisements for 530 brands -- including Unilever, Adidas, White Castle, Starbucks and Coca-Cola -- are set to disappear from Facebook starting today as the Stop Hate for Profit boycott campaign gets going.
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Jul 01, 2020
A ransomware gang has struck gold again, this time for more than $1 million.
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Jun 30, 2020
Netflix is pledging 2 percent of its cash holdings, initially up to $100 million, to provide economic opportunity for the black community.
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Jun 30, 2020
In an effort to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has cautioned people to avoid touching their faces. Now, NASA has taken that one step further and created a wearable device to remind people to do so.
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Jun 30, 2020
It's no secret how much Big Tech companies know about all of us. I bet Google comes to mind first. Tap or click here to see everything Google has on you with one quick download.
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Jun 29, 2020
The Pentagon plans to deploy its emerging B-21 stealth bomber in the Pacific as part of a decided effort to ensure technical superiority, sustain deterrence and, if needed, hold potential adversaries at risk.
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Jun 29, 2020
What if artillery rounds, mini-drone swarms of explosives, rockets and even air-fired missiles are all approaching forward-positioned Army troops at the same time? Imagine that these incoming weapons are dispersed, varied and fast approaching. How do ground commanders avoid being overwhelmed and destroyed? Could AI help solve this lethal predicament?
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Jun 29, 2020
YouTube has banned several prominent white supremacist channels, including those belonging to David Duke and Richard Spencer.
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Jun 29, 2020
Reddit is banning r/The_Donald along with almost 2,000 other online communities after updating its content policy to crack down harder on hate speech, the company announced on Monday.
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Jun 27, 2020
The FBI has seen a significant spike in cybercrime reports since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hackers, scammers, and snoops are having a field day. Be sure to check for any updates to your gear.
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Jun 26, 2020
Parler CEO John Matze said Parler is important for conservatives during an election year, where they can post freely without being censored.
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Jun 26, 2020
The People's Liberation Army may be arming its forces along the Indian border with its new lightweight, digitized, vehicle-mounted 155mm Howitzer weapon engineered to bring new dimensions of mobile artillery attack to modern ground war.
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Jun 26, 2020
The Chinese Army is preparing to deploy small, new, tracked war-robots armed with machine guns, night vision, missile loaders and camera sensors to conduct attacks while leaving manned systems at safer stand-off distances.
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Jun 26, 2020
At its developer conference, which started on Monday, Apple said the new operating system for the Apple Watch will add a reminder to wash your hands, while Apple Memojis will get COVID-19 customization, adding face mask coverings.
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Jun 26, 2020
When it comes to making your home smart, you need the right gear. Amazon's Alexa resides in millions of households and make sure you get the most out of yours. Tap or click for 13 Alexa skills you'll use over and over again.
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Jun 25, 2020
The Pentagon is looking to Space War as an emerging method to counter seemingly unstoppable hypersonic weapons attacks, with early prototyping of satellite sensors and other tracking technology to more quickly find and "take out" weapons traveling more than five times the speed of sound.
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Jun 25, 2020
Maybe it will take out missiles beyond the earth's atmosphere, incinerate targets well beyond the horizon with high-powered laser weapons and instantly stop a multi-faceted series of incoming attacks all at the same time? Perhaps it will use AI-empowered algorithms to launch a large fleet of networked surface, air and undersea drones, able to launch coordinated attacks at long ranges?
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Jun 25, 2020
New ransomware has popped up that may signal more malicious COVID-19 apps are coming.
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Jun 24, 2020
Amazon is launching a new unit to crack down on counterfeit goods, the company announced Wednesday.
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Jun 24, 2020
Boston has banned police from using facial recognition technology, becoming the second-largest U.S. community to do so.
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Jun 24, 2020
The ACLU has filed a formal complaint against Detroit police over what it claims is a wrongful arrest resulting from facial recognition technology.
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Jun 24, 2020
The ACLU has filed a formal complaint against Detroit police over what it claims is a wrongful arrest resulting from facial recognition technology.
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Jun 24, 2020
The U.S. Air Force is arming its cargo planes with bombs for attack missions in a clear move to expand the offensive warfare envelope for its fleet of tactical supply and transport aircraft, bringing a significant ability to drop weapons from austere, low-altitude, hard-to-reach areas.
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Jun 24, 2020
To say the Pentagon is massively emphasizing space war would be an understatement. This focus has clearly emerged from its newly released 2020 Defense Space Strategy Summary.
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Jun 23, 2020
What kind of impact would land-based air defenses, increased ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) operations and more bomber patrols have upon U.S. deterrence efforts in the Pacific Theater? Is this question taking on additional relevance and urgency in light of Chinese maneuvers near Taiwan and the South China Sea?
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Jun 23, 2020
As protests against police brutality and systemic racism continue across the country, Google employees are demanding that their company overhaul its relationship with law enforcement.
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Jun 23, 2020
The U.S. Army has fired test shot number three for its fast-emerging Precision-Strike Missile, a new surface-to-surface weapon intended to destroy targets with precision accuracy from ranges as far as 500 km. (311 miles).
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Jun 23, 2020
Dogs may be man's best friend, but one cuddly canine in Colorado is swapping out her human for a stuffed toy.
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Jun 22, 2020
The U.S. Navy is now operating three aircraft carriers in the Pacific in what appears to be a strong show of force following Chinese movements and comments regarding Taiwan and the South China Sea. ???????
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Jun 22, 2020
After weeks of speculation, Apple finally announced that it would be switching its Mac computers to ARM-based Apple silicon processors starting by the end of the year, a big blow to Intel.
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Jun 22, 2020
U.S. Army researchers are developing drones that can change shape in mid-flight.
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Jun 21, 2020
Today's tech is loaded with features most of us never use. Why? Simply stated, there's no real user manual.
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Jun 20, 2020
In the U.S. alone, 230 million people are active social media users. Think about all the posts, photos and videos shared every day.
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Jun 19, 2020
Snapchat apologized on Friday for a Juneteenth filter that allowed users to break digital chains by smiling.
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Jun 19, 2020
At its annual developer conference, Apple is expected to tell the faithful that the Mac will fundamentally change.
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Jun 19, 2020
Apple will shut some stores again in Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, and North Carolina as those states experience a spike in coronavirus cases, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
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Jun 19, 2020
The Navy is launching armed attack planes from the deck of its USS Ford carrier to prepare the new ship for major warfare on the open seas, by launching F/A-18 Super Hornets and helicopters equipped with ordnance for combat missions.
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Jun 18, 2020
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes that legislative efforts to bar Chinese students from studying in the U.S. could be "against our own self-interest."
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Jun 18, 2020
Several large tech companies, including Apple, Amazon and Google have cheered the Supreme Court's decision to deny the Trump administration's efforts to end the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Act.
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Jun 18, 2020
Sextortion is evolving into nastier ways to try to extort people.
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Jun 17, 2020
If you live in an area where you can start a garden, it's now easier than ever to monitor the soil, prep for seed planting with electronic tools, and even order seeds from an online shop.
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Jun 17, 2020
Amazon, which last week imposed a one-year ban on selling its controversial facial recognition technology to the police, is being called out for a "performative" gesture amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests.
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Jun 17, 2020
A group of civil rights organizations blasted Facebook on Wednesday, calling out the platform's role in allowing hate and bigotry to fester and urging an advertiser boycott.
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Jun 17, 2020
What if AI-enabled algorithms could process sensor data for Army infantry in a matter of seconds, alerting them of targets, enemy movements and relevant moments from drone feeds?
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Jun 16, 2020
Gen. John Murray, commanding general of Army Futures Command, eyes future "Combined Arms."
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Jun 16, 2020
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has inked a deal with Harvard's Wyss Institute worth up to $16 million to use technology to identify and test FDA-approved drugs that could be used in the battle against COVID-19.
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Jun 16, 2020
That's one pricey dog.
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Jun 16, 2020
A new piece of X-ray technology may help prevent illegal drug and gun smuggling at the U.S.-Mexico border. Security company Viken Detection created a handheld and under vehicle x-ray system that scans vehicles for hidden cash, drugs, and weapons. Officers with the Neuces County District Attorney's Criminal Interdiction Unit say it helps save time, money, and officers lives.
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Jun 16, 2020
As the Army looks toward future warfare scenarios, it is increasingly emphasizing the need to fully network air and ground drones to one another to defend advancing armored units in war, launch coordinated attacks and pursue new applications of Combined Arms Maneuver.
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Jun 16, 2020
Google's search function has been under scrutiny after an image of British World War II leader Winston Churchill went missing from some search results, amid censorship concerns. The tech giant blamed the missing image on a glitch.
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Jun 16, 2020
Most of us rely on navigation apps to get where we need to go. There are countless options out there, but Google Maps remains the most popular.
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Jun 15, 2020
Multiple Facebook users had their accounts blocked or banned last weekend for sharing an article that featured an image of Australian Aboriginals in chains.
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Jun 15, 2020
Github is going to overhaul coding terminology that has long been criticized for being racially insensitive, according to the company's chief executive.
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Jun 15, 2020
Germany's smartphone app to trace coronavirus infections is set to launch this week.
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Jun 15, 2020
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos could testify before Congress as soon as this summer as the company faces antitrust scrutiny on Capitol Hill.
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Jun 15, 2020
The two-million-strong Chinese Army recently conducted massive attack drills, tested warfare scenarios and practiced combat maneuvers in a large wargame in Northwestern China, raising questions about the extent of the countries' current preparation for a land war.
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Jun 14, 2020
Images of Winston Churchill failed to appear Sunday during Google searches for the former British prime minister—but the tech giant says it was not on purpose.
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Jun 14, 2020
In these troubled times, when we're dealing with a pandemic and protests compounded with the usual risks of accidents and crime, your smartphone can be your emergency notifier. Sure, you know about AAA for your car. Tap or click here for a free app you can use to replace AAA.
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Jun 13, 2020
Cybercrimes are on the rise with hackers and scammers chomping at the bit for a shot at your system. There's one tool that should be on all computers.
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Jun 12, 2020
Researchers turn lightbulbs into microphones.
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Jun 12, 2020
Over 90,000 fans who attended the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., this past January were being watched before they even got to their seats, as their features were captured by facial recognition software near the FanFest activity area, by a company called VSBLTY.
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Jun 12, 2020
Microsoft President Brad Smith said Thursday that the company would follow in Amazon's footsteps and not sell facial recognition tools to U.S. police departments until Congress passes a law clarifying the matter.
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Jun 12, 2020
The traditional face mask could be replaced by a more friendly version that shows a person's face.
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Jun 12, 2020
Twitter has removed over 170,000 accounts linked to China that were engaged in "a range of manipulative and coordinated" activities around issues such as the coronavirus pandemic and Hong Kong.
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Jun 12, 2020
Cybercriminals could trace your device or access sensitive personal data through contact-tracing apps built for the coronavirus pandemic, a new report says.
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Jun 12, 2020
In a letter appearing online Thursday, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan write that President Trump's "divisive and incendiary rhetoric" has left them "deeply shaken and disgusted" in a volatile time that they say requires "unity" in the U.S.
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Jun 11, 2020
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel defended the company's action of limiting the reach of President Trump's content by invoking the First Amendment and free speech, adding that other tech platforms should be more willing to emulate them.
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Jun 11, 2020
The Air Force is sending F-35s to the Middle East to escort ships, deter potential enemies, conduct reconnaissance and, of course, support ongoing combat operations in the U.S. military's Central Command region.
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