Not all data breaches are created equal. None of them are good, but they do come in varying degrees of bad. And given how regularly they happen, it’s understandable that you may have become inured to the news. Still, a T-Mobile breach that hackers claim involved the data of 100 million people deserves your attention,… Continue reading The T-Mobile Data Breach Is One You Can’t Ignore
Author: Wired Magazine
A Bug in the Android Google App Put Privacy at Risk
You hopefully already know that you should use a privacy browser. But privacy search engines have become increasingly viable as well for anyone looking to escape Google’s clutches. Leading that charge is DuckDuckGo, which this week introduced new tools that will stop help prevent tracking in both emails and other apps on Android phones. Some… Continue reading A Bug in the Android Google App Put Privacy at Risk
Let Users Own the Tech Companies They Help Build
A tech-eternity ago, in 2016 and 2017, one of us helped organize a shareholder campaign at Twitter, asking the platform to explore strategies for making its users into co-owners of the company. Twitter was then entertaining acquisition offers from the likes of Disney and Salesforce. To those of us in the campaign, it seemed wrong… Continue reading Let Users Own the Tech Companies They Help Build
Pokémon Cards Are Surging. So Is Hate Toward Graders
When Peter Graham noticed that people were going nuts for Pokémon cards again—that grown men were sweeping packs into their shopping trolleys and pulling out guns to fend off Weedle-crazed muggers; that Logan Paul had paid $150,000 for a single Charizard card, the one he wore around his neck before fighting Floyd Mayweather—he thought of… Continue reading Pokémon Cards Are Surging. So Is Hate Toward Graders
What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?
Quantum computers, you might have heard, are magical uber-machines that will soon cure cancer and global warming by trying all possible answers in different parallel universes. For 15 years, on my blog and elsewhere, I’ve railed against this cartoonish vision, trying to explain what I see as the subtler but ironically even more fascinating truth.… Continue reading What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?
Google Won’t Kill the URL After All
This week marked the arrival of Amazon Sidewalk, a mesh network that enlists your Echo and Ring devices to share bandwidth with others in the vicinity. Since the company opted everyone in without asking, here’s a quick guide to how you can turn off Amazon Sidewalk, and why you might want to do so. One… Continue reading Google Won’t Kill the URL After All
We Asked Giant Robot Experts to Critique Video Game Mecha
In games, mech pilots often have the job perk of dying in their seats. With mech windshields spiderwebbed with bullets, arm-guns overheated, energy cores depleted of uranium, and bipedal legs leaking hydraulic fluid across whatever near-future landscape they’re fighting in, oftentimes these mechs just blow up and players respawn across the map. Overwatch, Titanfall, and… Continue reading We Asked Giant Robot Experts to Critique Video Game Mecha
When the Bison Come Back, Will the Ecosystem Follow?
Eisenberg, who has spent her career studying wolves and bison, applies a combination of western science and traditional ecological knowledge, a field of environmental study based on ancient Indigenous knowledge. The field is particularly important for bison restoration efforts, she said, given that the Plains Indians—a term used to describe a number of Indigenous tribes… Continue reading When the Bison Come Back, Will the Ecosystem Follow?
Our Favorite Cheap Earbuds Are an Unbelievable $16 Right Now
When Apple removed the headphone jack in the iPhone, it sparked an upsurge in wireless Bluetooth earbuds. There are zillions of choices out there right now (check out our favorites here) but it’s very, very hard to find any that are worth listening to that cost less than $100. We’ve loved JLab Audio’s offerings for… Continue reading Our Favorite Cheap Earbuds Are an Unbelievable $16 Right Now
All the Top Features Coming to Your iPhone This Fall
Safari is now easier to use with one hand. The URL bar is now situated on the bottom, and it hides away when you scroll to maximize your screen’s real estate. You’ll notice Safari looks a lot more similar to the interface on macOS or your iPad on the new tab page—there’s your favorite websites,… Continue reading All the Top Features Coming to Your iPhone This Fall