After the Covid-19 outbreak, several groups got going on developing various smartphone tracking apps, as I wrote about last April. Since that post appeared, we have followed up with this news update on their flaws.
As the number of people getting vaccinated against Covid-19 rises, it’s time to review the ways that people can prove they have been inoculated when they want to cross international borders.
Plato once sagely observed, “A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
That advice resonates today, even as we deepen our reliance on number crunching — in the form of the u…
When we hear the word “spy,” we usually think of Cold War era, cloak-and-dagger spies. But in the digital age when we say someone is “spying” on you, we’re talking about online. And someone is almost certainly spying on you.
The book You Can Stop Stupid by Ira Winkler and Dr. Tracy Celaya Brown can be a useful roadmap to figuring out how you can stop accidental losses and malicious attacks.
Our phones have become an extension of our bodies, storing everything from our most personal memories to our banking information to which restaurants we love. They’re essential, personal— and highly steal-able. They’re also at risk of cyberattacks, whi…
Tell me if you’ve ever found yourself in this cycle: You sit down to your computer, ready to tackle the day, and that little notification pops up trying to get you to update your software. Mindful of the time that you so foolishly clicked that button, …
Question: What happens when you combine a World Chess Champion, a major streaming platform, and an obscure 1983 novel about an orphan?
Question: What happens when you combine a World Chess Champion, a major streaming platform, and an obscure 1983 novel about an orphan?
How did we get to this level of disinformation? How did we, the citizens of the United States of America, become so intensely divided?