On Tuesday, May 12, Twitter announced that it was allowing its employees to work from home indefinitely if they wished in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In an email sent to Twitter employees, the company’s CEO, Jack Dorsey explained that they were free to work from home permanently even…

The novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has become a major challenge in the world as it continues to spread and cause havoc around the world. The virus has provided a hard nut to crack as there is no known cure or vaccine to combat it. In addition, researchers and…

Schoolchildren have been forced to stay at home in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Classes are on hold and your kid might be all excited about watching Ricky and Morty or Paw Patrol most of the day while you fret about their studies and resumption of school….

Cliff Johnson, a Northwestern University astronomer, was surveying the Magellanic Clouds – two dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way – in the predawn hours of November 18, 2019, when 19 streaks of bright lights crossed into the telescope’s view. Johnson was to later learn that the shining objects were part…

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has caused a major shift in how people work. Suddenly, governments around the world want people to stay indoors and work remotely, using the Internet to access work from home. So working from home has become the new normal. The shift has come with some major…

Hackers attempted to break into the World Health Organization (WHO) early this month. World Health Organization Information Security Officer, Flavio Aggio said the attempt did not succeed but warned that hackers have increased their attacks on the agency in the face of Covid-19 which has killed thousands of people worldwide….

The cellular industry is evolving fast and by the looks of things we are about to enter into an era of lightning-fast devices and augmented virtual reality. Sounds like quite a ride, huh? Well, hold on tight, the race is just heating up and the speed is about to get…

People looking up in the night sky, such as looking up at Venus, have seen a group of lights, flying in a perfectly straight line, as if in formation, and are wondering “What the heck are those things??”. Some are freaking out a bit, wondering if it’s the alien invasion,…

An international court has held that the operators of websites that display a Facebook ‘Like’ button can be data controllers under GDPR, because they are passing data on to Facebook.

The GPS rollover – it sounds like an April Fools joke a few days late, but it’s not. It feels like Y2K, but more confusing. The GPS (Global Positioning System) rollover – which is actually a reset – is going to happen tonight (April 6, 2019) at 7:59pm EST / 4:59pm PST / 11:59 GMT. That is when the GPS system will reset its time-tracking to 00:00.

The largest data set of astronomical sky survey data in history has just been made available on the Internet, for free, and for anyone to access. The data, the second edition of data from the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS), comprises over 1.6 petabytes of data.

Because of spyware companies like the NSO Group, and their Pegasus spyware, it can now be fatal to click a link sent to you in a text message or email. That is what experts believe happened to Jamal Khashoggi, and perhaps almost to Omar Abdulaziz, who received a fake text message supposedly from DHL, and which experts believe installed the NSO Pegasus spyware on his phone.

China has started rolling out the Chinese ‘social credit score’, which takes into account, among other things, your behaviors, and your purchases. But don’t think you’re immune if you don’t live in China; companies around the world, including the U.S., are already compiling a ‘social score’ on you. While a “social score” is different in some ways from a “social credit score”, it’s not really that far removed, and the potential is pretty concerning.

Google Maps has just been implicated in a divorce, its Street View having captured an image of a woman undeniably cheating on her husband. In the past we have written about various Google Maps oopsies, including it causing the wrong house to be demolished, and Google Street View capturing the image of a woman urinating in public. But to the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that Google Maps has led to divorce.

On Friday people across the United States started experiencing a massive Comcast outage. Over the weekend, instead of getting better, it spread, and now, going on 4 days later, the Comcast outage is global.