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YouTube Star Arrested for Playing Pokémon Go in a Church

By: Nick Gambino In a true sign of the separation of church and state, a popular YouTube star in Russia named Sokolovsky, was arrested for playing Pokémon Go in a church. That’s...

The New Amazon Echo Adds a Screen for Video Calling

By: Nick Gambino The popular Amazon Echo has added a convenient IoT tool to our everyday lives; an audio assistant that can answer virtually any verbal question and even purchase anything you...

Defenders Kick Butt in New Trailer

By: Nick Gambino While Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2 is hitting theaters this weekend and will probably make $10000 trillion, Marvel is making splashes in another medium, Netflix. The new Defenders...

The New Samsung Galaxy S8 Delivers but Misses a Couple Marks

By: Nick Gambino With the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 exploding battery fiasco, some consumers are justifiably a little weary of signing onto Samsung’s newest smartphone, the Galaxy S8. Though upon initial inspection,...

SQL Injections: The Unwanted Heirloom

Source: Pixabay There’s a certain irony in undoing high-tech systems with the simplest tools, breaking into bank vaults with a bent hairpin or guessing your grandmother’s account details using the names of...

Instagram Captures 700 Million Users on Its Way to 1 Billion

By: Nick Gambino Instagram is on a roll racking up 100 million additional monthly active users in the last 4 months alone. With that huge upsurge in monthly users, Instagram is now...

Social Gaming: Fad or Future?

Source: Pixabay Social gaming is FarmVille. It’s Zuma Blitz and Words with Friends. It’s pretty much anything that can be played on social media networks like Facebook – or at least that’s...
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Connected Aircraft are Closer Than You Think

By: Megan Ray Nichols The future of the avionics industry includes connected aircraft that will allow for big data sharing between aircraft and operation bases. This technology is closer than you may...

New Commercials Address You by Name

By: Nick Gambino If you had told me back in 2002 that most of the technology in Minority Report would be realized in the next 15 years, I would have laughed you...

Mobiles and Money: Assets that are Now Worth More than Ever

In 2017, our phones and our finances go together like hands and gloves. Thanks to advances in modern technology, the ways we pay, manage our money and even make money all...