Technology

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to roll back net neutrality regulations several weeks ago, leaving consumers on their own when dealing with heavy-handed ISPs. The FCC suggests that public outrage will prevent ISPs from doing truly objectionable things with data traffic, but how are we supposed to know what’s happening …

Cybersecurity is an ongoing problem, with critical flaws and weaknesses ranging from ongoing research into how best to break fundamental aspects of CPU architectures to users perennial terrible choice of passwords. All in all, it’s not a cheerful situation, and new data from Google doesn’t exactly improve things. In a …

WhatsApp today officially launched its new WhatsApp Business app in select markets, including Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, the U.K. and the U.S., ahead of its planned worldwide rollout. The addition of business profiles and new messaging tools aimed at business customers is part of the company’s broader plan to generate revenue by …

Interest in machine learning has exploded in recent years as companies realize it has applications in photography, self-driving cars, games, and more. We’ve reached a point that there aren’t enough experienced programmers and data scientists with the necessary expertise to build these systems. Google’s solution is Cloud AutoML, a point-and-click …

Most people are content to leave their keyboard on the desk where it belongs, but I have a different set of requirements. I’m a writer who travels a fair bit, and laptop keyboards just don’t cut it. I like to bring a nice mechanical keyboard with me when I expect …

Hearing improvement technology has marched forward at a slow-but-steady pace, but a new recent law has opened the floodgates. In a rare bipartisan consensus, Congress approved and President Trump signed into law legislation that includes the Over the Counter (OTC) Hearing Aid Act. The act stipulates consumers can directly purchase …

The value of Bitcoin has skyrocketed over the last year, reaching nearly $20,000 several weeks ago before dipping back down. That’s far from the first price spike for Bitcoin — the naturally volatile cryptocurrency has been up and down for its entire existence. Economists recently took a look the spike …

FCC Chairperson Ajit Pai led the organization in a repeal of net neutrality last year, but legislators and states have both indicated they won’t let things lapse without a fight. Twenty-one states, including New York, California, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia, have filed suit alongside the District of …

Home smart speaker sales exploded over Christmas, reportedly because so many people gave them as gifts. Concerns over the ethics of giving someone a home spying device aside, it appears the hardware is causing real problems for Wi-Fi routers. Originally, it was thought that the problem was confined to one …

Extensions for Google’s Chrome browser have to work within certain restrictions, but that hasn’t stopped people from sneaking in malicious features. Researchers from security firm ICEBRG report finding a cluster of scam extensions in the Google Web Store with a combined download figure of more than 500,000. Google has removed …