Technology

Do you still need to pay for your home cable internet with 5G rolling out across the country?  That’s a good question. First, let’s discuss what 5G internet is. It’s the latest in internet innovation in wireless technology. Some wireless networks like T-Mobile are claiming that their 5G service is …

Wildebeest is a new project from Cloudflare that’s designed to make it easier for individuals to set up and run their own Mastodon-compatible servers. It highlights one of the key strengths of Mastodon over centralized competitors like Twitter, which is that anyone can host an instance of the microblogging service …

Color me surprised that TikTok hasn’t been banned in the U.S. yet. Can’t stop using it? Take this simple step to keep your data from going back to China. It’s not just apps. More than a third of the world’s electronics are produced in China. There’s a difference between products made …

The latest Chrome beta, version 111, includes a trial for a feature that could make the browser’s picture-in-picture feature significantly more useful. Instead of being only for playing videos, Google’s looking into letting it display basically any web content in a floating window that stays on top of all your …

Justice is finally being served for the victims who were affected by a stalkerware developer in New York who used 16 companies to promote surveillance tools illegally.  CLICK TO GET KURT’S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER Now, the spyware …

This week, Microsoft and Google promised that web search is going to change. Yes, Microsoft did it in a louder voice while jumping up and down and saying “look at me, look at me,” but both companies now seem committed to using AI to scrape the web, distill what it …

The AARP is warning of a popular scam that hackers are using to get money out of well-meaning victims like you. It’s become known as the “do me a favor” scam, and it’s allowing malicious criminals to take as much as $1,200 or more from innocent people.  CLICK TO GET …

Less delightful was Twitter’s performance yesterday, after the Elon Musk-owned social media network suffered technical issues that stopped people from tweeting, and broke DMs and TweetDeck. As Elon Musk would say, “Concerning.” In lieu of a tweet, here’s a silly Mastodon post to start your day: Stay tuned, as we …

Stop what you are doing to do this quick read. It is a shortcut trick I promise will pay off in spades. Learning how to screen record on your device has tons of benefits.  Whether you’re trying to send a family member instructions for how to do something on their …

Twitter appears to be recovering from having technical issues that prevented people from tweeting, though problems with DMs, and accessing TweetDeck are still seemingly persisting. Downdetector reports that the problems started around 4:30PM ET, and the unfettered ability to tweet came back around an hour and a half later. The …