This is about how I took advantage of the ubiquity of TV in the lives of many older adults.  By adding various smart integrations, I turned the TV from simply a source of background noise into a useful tool — that helps my 94-yr-old aunt accomplish all sorts…

OAuth Account Takeover. Salt Labs shows how hackers could abuse OAuth to take over millions of accounts on Grammarly, Vidio, and Bukalapak.

Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400): poet, courtier, diplomat, Member of Parliament and royal administrator, and often called the ‘father of English poetry’. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is one of the greatest works of medieval literature. This Middle English…

Announcing the world's first commercial cloud computer.

God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again. I have so much stuff to do. Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting…

Samsung’s annual Memory Tech Day is taking place in San Jose this morning, and as part of the event, the company is making a couple of notable memory technology announcements/disclosures. The highlight of Samsung’s event is the introduction of Shinebolt,…

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Repair advocates say Apple's move is beneficial, but also strategic.

GDP was expected to increase at a 4.7% annualized pace in the third quarter, according to a Dow Jones consensus estimate.

Nature - Fresh investigations find that the red planet’s liquid-metal core is smaller than scientists thought.

Declassified spy images point to 396 undiscovered forts in Syria and Iraq, shifting understanding of Roman frontier

Google has worried for years that Apple would one day expand its internet search technology, and has been working on ways to prevent that from happening.

Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and fonts, making it difficult for users to consume and understand…

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The British government’s plans to remove safeguards around biometrics and public space surveillance were described on Thursday as “shocking” and “tantamount to vandalism” by an outgoing commissioner.

A groundbreaking medical procedure for those with kidney stones will soon be offered at the University of Washington after more than two decades of research.

A University of California Los Angeles survey study shows that Generation Z is much more interested in seeing stories about platonic relationships than those featuring sex and romance.

Researchers from Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York found that a drug most commonly used to treat erectile dysfunction also blocks an enzyme associated with the onset of Alzheimer's disease.