Year: 2015

You’ve seen clickbait. Those are web pages that promise to deliver interesting content but lack substance. It could be a promise of an interesting news article, perhaps a review or a product or maybe celebrity gossip. […]

When I first saw this story at the New York Daily News website, I thought that I was probably looking at the Onion or some other fake news site. But then I saw a link […]

On February 13th, President Obama visited Stanford University in Silicon Valley where he spoke about the need for greater cooperation between government and industry to protect cyberspace. Here is a video of that speech (and […]

Tuesday is Safer Internet Day, which is celebrated in more than 100 countries including a live streamed U.S. event from Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley featuring talks by California Attorney General Kamala Harris and Facebook […]

Sharing explicit pictures or videos with an intimate partner is not always a harmful practice, but it can be devastating if those images get into the wrong hands — like those of Kevin Bollaert. In […]

CNET news has a story on how you can get Google Earth Pro for free instead of paying the $400 that the search giant used to change. But, as CNET points out, there aren’t that […]

Esther Wojcicki, an award winning journalism teacher at Palo Alto High School, has come out with a new book, Moonshots in Education: Blended Learning in the Classroom where she talks about schools that are already engaged in […]

A San Diego jury convicted Kevin Bollaert of 21 identity theft and six extortion counts for running websites called YouGotPosted.com and ChangeMyReputation.com.  Prosecutors said that the first site posted nude or sexually explicit pictures of […]

In the past several years, Microsoft has become the Rodney Dangerfield of the tech world. It just doesn’t get much respect. Even though Microsoft remains the 800-pound gorilla when it comes to computer operating systems […]

CBS News Technology Analyst Larry Magid speaks with Rick Smolan, the photographer who covered Robyn Davidson during part of her epic solo journey across the Australian outback. Davidson’s saga was turned into a movie called […]