by jnelson | May 17, 2016 | How the Net Works, News
This week, the Web exploded over charges that the content of Facebook’s Trending topics feature is decided by humans – including a bunch of young, college-educated contractors in Knoxville, Kentucky. Who, despite their location, according to the Gizmodo report,...
by jnelson | Jan 16, 2016 | Interesting Items, News
Almost exactly a year ago, we first mentioned that The Expanse was coming to Syfy. The first season is half-over now, and we’re delighted to say that the long wait was very much worth it. The series has been rightfully hailed as “the best new science...
by jnelson | Sep 17, 2015 | How the Net Works, News
If you’re a typical Windows user, by now you’ve likely found a pop-up window from Microsoft on your desktop at least once inviting you to “reserve” your free copy of Windows 10 – even if your current system is pirated. It’s an...
by Jamii Corley | Jul 31, 2015 | Encryption, How the Net Works, Interesting Items, Resources, Security, Tips and Tricks
In our last post we showed you how to install the Mailvelope browser extension and generate PGP public and private keys, and how to import someone’s public key. Now we’d like to actually use this structure to send encrypted email. At this point if you use...
by Jamii Corley | Jul 31, 2015 | Encryption, How the Net Works, Interesting Items, Resources, Security, Tips and Tricks
In that last few years we’ve come to see more and more that things we thought were private, simply aren’t. Whether it is companies that want to sell you things, the government wanting to find terrorist plots, or thieves looking for personal data to aid...
by jnelson | Apr 23, 2015 | How the Net Works, News
“Mobilegeddon” is a funny way of referring to Google’s latest change of its search engine ranking algorithm. Of course, whenever the world’s most-used means of finding things tinkers with the way it works, people are concerned and easily...
