For the second time in a week Facebook users received an error message when trying to access their accounts on Monday afternoon. Also, Facebook privacy status hoax resurfaces again, fills news feeds. Facebook became unavailable for some of its users around 3pm EDT Monday, and remained inaccessible for over an hour. Many users took to Twitter to complain about the … Read More

The re-design is the first change to the world’s most viewed website since 2010, and includes a refreshed Google bar at the top of the page. At first glance the logo does not look dramatically different but it has in fact been subtly reshaped and flattened. As part of the design, the color palette and letter shapes of the Google … Read More

So you’ve clicked “Accept” on the terms of a brand new app. Are you hearing that little voice that asks, “What’s this thing going to do with access to my camera, contacts and location?” You might just get some answers in new smartphones in 2016 if your phone has the Snapdragon 820 processing chip made by Qualcomm. It will give … Read More

Filthy, broken phone booths that look like totem poles, will now be transformed into something sleek, clean, safe, informative, timely, fun, and most of all, hard-wire connected to the Internet and Wi-Fi, FAST. LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communications network that will bring the fastest available municipal Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers, small businesses, and visitors. The five-borough LinkNYC network, … Read More

The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions. To be the best Amazonians they can be, they should be guided by the leadership principles, 14 rules inscribed on handy laminated cards. Workers kill themselves trying to please a corporation that, at the end of the day, … Read More

What yesterday was Google, today is called Alphabet, but under the umbrella of the new name is a wholly-owned subsidiary that will still be named Google focusing on Internet products. The company, which was founded in 1998 and went public in 2004, announced its new operating structure in a blog post on Monday called “G is for Google.” The name … Read More

It’s becoming seemingly easier to know how many steps we take and calories we burn, however, calorie intake still seems to be a challenge. How do you know exactly how many calories sirloin steak and mashed potatoes has? SmartPlate is the world’s first intelligent plate that instantly analyzes everything you eat. Using digital cameras and weight sensors, it instantly tracks … Read More

A security research company (Zimperium) claims to have found a vulnerability baked into Androids that could endanger nearly all devices running the popular mobile software. The bug is able to infect phones without users actually opening anything themselves. Even before you open a message, the phone automatically processes incoming media files — including pictures, audio or video. That means a … Read More

We’ve all been there: Someone offers you a bulky, bright orange life vest and you politely decline. You know how to swim, you tell yourself. Plus, it would look pretty dorky. But according to the the United States Coast Guard, 82 percent of people who drowned in 2013 weren’t wearing a life preserver. The World Health Organization estimates that 370,000 … Read More

Today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will sweep past Pluto and present the previously unexplored world in all its icy glory. New Horizons has traveled 3 billion miles over 9½ years to get to this historic point. The fastest spacecraft ever launched. The size of a baby grand piano, the spacecraft came closest to Pluto today — at 7:49 a.m. EDT. … Read More