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Half a million Zoom accounts have ended up on the dark web. Here’s what information was exposed and what to do now.

Digital group activities are becoming the new normal—here’s why you should opt in.

On March 31st, Marriott International notified more than 5 million guests that their personal information was compromised due to a vulnerability in the company’s app.

If data is the new oil, the U.S. has been operating without an agency in charge of preventing spills or holding those responsible accountable when they occur.

Some people have minds like steel traps. They can see a place they want to remember, and they just remember it, as simple as that. And then there’s the rest of us: the vast majority of humans who want to remember things and places, but generally suck at it. If that’s you, at least you’re […]

Viewed through the reality of surveillance capitalism, Big Tech’s commercials last Sunday take on a new light.

Each day, people adopt technologies and accept policies that ask them to trade privacy for greater convenience or perceived security: from smart home devices, to facial recognition scans at the airport, to endorsing legislation such as the Patriot Act. For many people, this discussion ends with “Well, I have nothing to hide.” That is, nothing […]

There is a finite amount of space between your ears, and while it seems as though you can always store more memories in there, well…science still doesn’t really know how memory works. What we do know, however, is that remembering things is no trivial matter, especially today when it seems we are busier than ever. […]

Smartphones are perfect distraction machines. They bombard us with messages and news updates whether we’re interested or not, and constant connectivity can feel like a double-edged sword. But you don’t need to chuck your phone in a river to get a little peace of mind. Here’s how to simplify your iPhone and rein in unwanted […]

It may be hard for you to remember life before Gmail (it was born in 2004, if you’re wondering), but Google’s client has changed the way we email many times over. By making email vastly more searchable it has saved us time, and by popularizing the conversation view it saved our sanity. But there have […]

Here’s the thing with dating apps: The people who are on them don’t want to be. Okay, there are some exceptions who reeeally like window shopping, but for the most part, people on dating apps want the dating, not the apps. Many would prefer to find their special someone and delete the app once and […]

We spend hours upon hours each day staring at screens. At work, they’re usually our big, bright computer displays, but when we aren’t looking at those, we’re often looking at the little screens in the palms of our hands. Smartphone usage is through the roof these days, and that actually represents a bit of a […]