Those cell-phone text alerts are about to get a lot more useful
When New Yorkers were interrupted this month by a cellphone alert urging them to keep a lookout for a dangerous bombing suspect, some may have found the message confusing. Why...
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Your internet privacy shouldn’t be a ‘luxury item,’ top regulator says
Should your online privacy depend on whether you've paid your internet provider a little extra this month? That's one of the key policy questions concerning the future of the web....
Hampton Creek CEO buys full-page ads to call Trump campaign ‘un-American,’ includes phone number
If reading the Sunday paper is a weekly tradition, you might find an interesting surprise today: A full-page ad that's mostly blank space, with bold lettering at the top that...
Facebook users are rebelling against clickbait with one of the only tools they have
Clickbait. Nobody likes it, and yet it's strangely irresistible. You kind of hate yourself after indulging in it, the Internet equivalent of being force-fed melted Jolly Ranchers by the spoonful....
The incredibly brilliant way people are now paying for things in Asia
When Apple first rolled out Apple Pay in 2014, it was billed as a simpler way to buy goods and services. You take your phone out, tap it to the...
Americans are using a whopping amount of data these days
Americans are so committed to their smartphones and tablets that they used nearly 1 trillion gigabytes of mobile data last year, according to a new study published by a top...
Many Americans have never even heard of Uber or Lyft
Going by the headlines, it often seems as though the future of transportation is already within our grasp. Depending on which experts you ask, self-driving cars are just five to...
This experiment puts Google one step closer to driverless ridesharing
Google's launch of a carpooling service this week marks the beginning of its seemingly inevitable entry into the ridesharing wars. The pilot program, which is being offered via Google's Waze...
Court set to make one of most important decisions in history of Internet
If you thought the battle over net neutrality ended when the Federal Communications Commission slapped a series of unprecedented rules on Internet providers last year, think again. For months, the...
Tesla hacker uncovers P100D plans to boost range
Tesla fans appear to have discovered the next iteration of the Model S: An as-yet unannounced, more powerful version that sports a 100 kilowatt-hour battery. The most advanced Model S...