Technology has made so many things easier. Buying things, for example. You can sit at home, unclothed and the worse for wear, and click your way to buying almost anything you want. But what about when you’re in a physical store? It must seem so old-fashioned. You might have to talk to people or, worse, …

Facebook introduced a new data policy and terms of service on Wednesday that aim to better explain the information it gathers on you, but the company says it isn’t collecting anything new.  “These updates are about making things clearer,” wrote Erin Egan, Facebook’s chief privacy officer, and Ashley Beringer, deputy general counsel in a blog post about the updates. “We’re not …

Amid increased pressure in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has released a new tool designed to help you more easily manage the third party apps that have access to your data.  Previously if you wanted to delete third-party apps from your Facebook page you had to delete them one by one. But now it’s possible to delete …

Apple is reportedly in the early stages of developing two features for future iPhones: touchless gesture controls and curved screens. Bloomberg reported Wednesday on the new tech, but said those features won’t be coming to iPhones for at least two years, and that’s if Apple decides to move forward with either idea. Apple didn’t respond to a request for comment …

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. They know you and they record you. Apple The more we let gadgets know about us, the more they remember. So when 57-year-old Myrna Nilsson was found dead in Adelaide, Australia, police thought they’d examine the Apple Watch she’d been wearing to see what it …

Thousands of Google employees have signed a petition calling for the company to end its work with the Pentagon on artificial intelligence and image recognition tech that could be used for drone strikes. The letter, signed by 3,100 employees, was sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The signers were speaking out against Project Maven, …

The ultrafast speeds of 5G are coming, and they could be at your place as soon as January 2019. Optus announced Thursday that it’s in the final stages of testing a commercial 5G router for consumers, and that the hardware should be ready to launch at the start of the new year. “We want to make sure Australia is one …

Facebook estimates that the data of no less than 87 million people was obtained by Cambridge Analytica in what’s become quite the scandal. But now it has gone to another level. Tinder has been taken from us. Kind of. In an attempt to prevent another Analytica-gate, Facebook on Wednesday implemented new measures to regulate the data third-party apps can use and …

Gamma. Unless you’re talking about Bruce Banner, it’s probably not high on the list of interesting things. In fact, in this context, we’re not even talking about the highest-energy form of light. Gamma rays, especially in space, are super interesting and cool compared to gamma on TVs. In fact most people have probably never even heard of gamma in the …

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