VPNs, or Virtual Private Networks, are great for protecting your privacy and security while you use the internet . Whether you’re at home or abroad, they’re essential for protecting your data. This week, we want to know which ones you think are the best. Read more…
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What’s The Best VPN Service Provider?
I’ve previously looked at the ups and downs of tracking everything in my life , finding that the data helps provide a little guidance but is certainly nothing to live by. What I couldn’t tell, however, is how accurate that data actually was. Rachel Feltman , writer for Quartz, decided to wear four fitness trackers at once to find out. Read more…
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Here’s the Reliable and Unreliable Data You Get from Fitness Trackers
The oldest known incidence of cancer in a human has been found in a 3, 000-year-old skeleton . Analysis of the remains , which were found in a tomb in what used to be ancient Nubia , revealed metastatic carcinoma — a form of cancer that spreads to other parts of the body. The discovery shows that the disease is not strictly a modern affliction . Read more…
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The oldest known incidence of cancer in a human has been found in a 3,000-year-old skeleton.
Two-factor authentication is critical for protecting your online accounts, but sadly, not every site supports it (even, shockingly, many banks ). TwoFactorAuth.org is a new site that all the sites that do or do not support two-factor authentication. Read more…
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TwoFactorAuth Lists All the Sites with Two-Factor Authentication
A bulletproof, air-conditioned, diamond-covered, $3.2 million suit? Even James Bond would drool over this. Not that it would matter; it’s also waterproof. Naturally. Read more…
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The $3.2 Million Bulletproof, Diamond-Studded Suit With a Built-In A/C
An anonymous reader writes “Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 28 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions include VP9 video decoding, Web notifications on OS X, and volume controls for HTML5 video and audio. Firefox 28 has been released over on Firefox.com and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. The full release notes are available. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play (Android release notes).” Mozilla also announced tools to bring the Unity game engine to WebGL and asm.js. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Firefox 28 Arrives With VP9 Video Decoding, HTML5 Volume Controls
Toshiba just took the wraps off a medical breathalyzer that the company says can diagnose diseases by analyzing the air a patient exhales. “Bad breath” just took on a whole new meaning. Read more…
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Toshiba’s New Breathalyzer Diagnoses Diseases, Not Drunks
Remember all that business about the NSA saying it only collects phone metadata ? Yeah, that’s not true. Not only can the NSA listen in on foreigners’ phone calls. It can record “every single” conversation in an entire country and store the recordings for 30 days at a time, according to a new Washington Post report . Read more…
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NSA System Can Record Entire Countries’ Calls for 30 Days at a Time
A very tricky phishing scam that takes advantage of Google Docs is making its way around the web . And since it uses a google.com URL and even makes use of Google’s SSL encryption, it’s almost impossible to tell that it’s a hack. Your best safeguard, as always, is a little bit of common sense. Read more…
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Beware of This Dangerously Convincing Google Docs Phishing Scam
Facebook has been working on facial recognition for years to auto-tag photographs, but has now reached a point where its technology is ‘ closely approaching human-level performance .’ In fact, in some ways it might even be better. Read more…
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Facebook’s Facial Recognition ‘Approaching Human-Level Performance’