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Thomas Catenacci Facebook’s market capitalization, or total dollar value, closed above $1 trillion for the first time ever Monday, making it the fifth U.S. company to reach such size. Facebook exceeded the $1 trillion mark after a year in which the company experienced massive user…
Read More Facebook Becomes Fifth Tech Company Worth More Than $1 Trillion
Thomas Catenacci The U.K.’s top antitrust regulatory agency announced that it will probe Google and Amazon over the companies’ alleged tolerance of fake reviews on their platforms. The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) opened the investigation to examine whether Google and Amazon have been…
Read More ‘Simply Not Fair’ UK Opens Probe Into Google, Amazon Over Alleged Fake Reviews
The FBI Phoenix Field Office is warning the public of phishing and spoofing scams by criminal actors, and actions you can take to help prevent your chances of falling victim. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), Phishing scams reported the most victims…
Read More FBI Tech Tuesday: Protecting Yourself From Spoofing And Phishing Scams
Sensitive customer and employee information may have been exposed during a March data breach, cruise giant Carnival Corp. announced Thursday. Carnival told customers in a letter Thursday that a March cyber attack on their databases had potentially exposed the Social Security numbers, passport numbers, health…
Read More Carnival Cruise Line Says Customer Information Was Compromised In March Hack
BALM, Fla. – Think of University of Florida scientists Nathan Boyd and Arnold Schumann a bit like surgeons. Except in this case, their operating room is a strawberry field. With their research, Boyd and Schumann hope to eventually help growers unleash surgical strikes on weeds…
Read More Robots May Eventually Help Kill Weeds That Impede Strawberry Yield
On June 7th, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make a close approach to the gas giant’s huge moon, flying within 645 miles of Ganymede. Launched August 5th, 2011, the spacecraft was the second spacecraft in the New Frontiers program and was sent to Jupiter to find…
Read More NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Checks Out Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
Thomas Catenacci Google settled an antitrust case with the French competition authority, agreeing to pay a nearly $270 million fine and accept regulators’ demands including sharing data with competitors. Google agreed to the fine, which was levied due to the tech company’s “abuse” of its…
Read More Google Agrees To Pay $270 Million Fine In Antitrust Case, Share Data With Competitors
The pandemic has certainly changed the way many people communicate, resulting in an increase in the use of virtual tools and integrated software. For seniors in isolation this has had an overall positive impact as many have learned to use this technology to stay in…
Read More How Integrated Hearing Technology Is Improving the Lives of Seniors
Microsoft’s search engine Bing appeared to censor images of the protester who stood in front of a Chinese tank during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. A Bing Images search of “tank man” yielded no results and a prompt for the user to check their spelling as of…
Read More Microsoft Blocks Images Of Tiananmen Square Protests On Massacre Anniversary
On June 2nd, NASA unveiled two new missions to return to Venus. NASA’s last mission was Magellan, an orbiter launched in 1989 which deorbited in 1994 and successfully mapped the entire Venusian surface, including its volcanoes, craters, and domes. These two missions are part of…
Read More NASA Details Two Missions To Venus