By any measure, connected devices are going to play prominent roles in our future lives. They’ll be everywhere – connecting items in our homes, our workplaces, our cars and our public buildings to the web, tracking usage and offering instant access to …
Young Gen Xers and old millennials were considered the first “digital natives” because we came of age with the internet. But let’s be real: No one is more “digital native” than Gen Z and the youngest among us, Generation Alpha. If you’re a parent and y…
I love YouTube. Whenever I need to learn how to fix something or want to learn to make something new in the kitchen, I turn to its endless videos.
With a global pandemic taking over the spotlight on all of news and media, we are all familiar with the likes of what a virus is and the negative implications if not properly mitigated. What hasn’t shared the same spotlight is perhaps a similar-acting …
Talking about online safety with your kids is… awkward. Not unlike the other talk that parents avoid, the online safety conversation can feel overwhelming, intimidating, and even embarrassing. Maybe you’re worried they know more than you do. Maybe you’…
No parent loves monitoring their kid’s every move online — but it’s a necessary evil, kind of like driving underage kids around to all of their activities. You just have to do it until they’re a certain age.
Millennial and Gen X parents grew up side by side with the internet, stumbling through the painful days of dial-up and America Online in their younger years and then falling head first into Facebook and social media in their twenties. So while people o…
Technology has made it possible for millions of children to comply with social distancing by providing a means for them to see family, socialize, and even go to school. But technology isn’t immune to the problems of the physical world. According to a n…
October might be most famous for cooling weather and spooky nights, but did you know it’s also Cybersecurity Awareness Month? And this year, with the Covid-19 pandemic pushing more and more of our activities online, it’s especially important to be awar…
As we reported earlier this year, domestic violence incidents have increased since stay-at-home orders related to Covid-19 were issued. What’s more, abusive behavior carried over into the digital world as well: Between March and June 2020, Avast Threat…