AWS outage hobbling major sites and services
Amazon’s AWS S3 service is having some technical issues that are causing major websites and services throughout the internet to have errors, or to...
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Twitter’s Periscope now has Live 360 degree broadcasting
In an announcement yesterday Twitter’s Periscope announced that they will begin rolling out 360 degree live video broadcasting they are calling Live 360. While anybody...
Are we giving up privacy for convenience?
While watching the NBC Nighty News today and I saw an a story about authorities in Bentonville, Arkansas seeking the recordings from an Amazon Echo unit...
South Carolina’s Chumley files bill to create law to block porn
South Carolina state representative Bill Chumley (R-Spartanburg), has introduced a bill designed to fight human trafficking by blocking pornography on any device sold in the...
Hackers stole details for over 1 Billion Yahoo accounts
It is being widely reported that internet company Yahoo was breached by hackers, back in 2013. Yes, you read that right, 2013. Here we are...
Amazon Go – Physical stores, without checkout lines?
Internet retailing powerhouse Amazon announced its latest venture into the physical marketplace. It is launching a new brick-and-mortar food market it is calling, Amazon GO....
AT&T in FCC crosshairs over net neutrality, and the debate continues.
The FCC now has AT&T in is crosshairs over violating net neutrality rules by allowing its users to use its new DIRECTV Now video streaming...
1 Million+ Google Accounts Compromised by Gooligan Malware
News is spreading across the internet that more than 1 million Google accounts have been compromised by a malware known as “Gooligan”. The Gooligan malware, which...
Full Featured Laptop for under $100 – Pinebook by Pine64
Image Credit: pine64.com Pine64, makers of the popular single board computer product meant to compete with products like Raspberry PII and Onion boards, has come...
4 Tips for Black Friday Shopping
With Thanksgiving coming this week we have been inundated with advertisements for America’s favorite holiday, Black Friday. Black Friday is of course not a real...