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News & Articles By Cassie B.
07/17/2019
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By Cassie B.
Here’s ANOTHER reason to reduce kids’ screen time: Social media found to negatively influence their food choices
The reasons to minimize the time your kids spend using screens continue to pile up, with everything from depression and vision problems to poor school performance and social relations being blamed on excessive electronics device use. Now scientists have found yet another compelling reason to impose some limits on screen time — and social media […]
04/23/2019
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By Cassie B.
Mental health apps secretly share your private data with marketing companies to target your “disorders”
If you’re looking to make some positive changes for your health, you might enlist the help of an app. If, like many people, you already depend on your smartphone for managing many of your other daily tasks, it might seem logical to add health-related matters to the list. However, some people are quickly finding that […]
01/28/2019
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By Cassie B.
Unethical Facebook caught tricking kids into spending their parents’ money on in-game purchases
Just in case you needed another reason to hate Facebook, it has now been revealed that the social media giant intentionally duped children into spending their parents’ money on video games within the platform and then refused to refund the money. Their actions are bad enough on their own, but the fact that they had […]
12/24/2018
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By Cassie B.
Texas congressman wants social media firms held accountable for biased censorship of speech
A Texas lawmaker has introduced a bill that would see social media firms stripped of their “special legal protections” if they act in a biased way. Representative Louie Gohmert said that social media companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are among the biggest in the world and wield an enormous amount of influence; in […]
10/21/2018
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By Cassie B.
Health surveillance: Engineers unveil smart wristband that broadcasts your health and environmental data to a phone through Wi-Fi
Just when you thought that tracking humans through technology couldn’t get any worse, engineers have developed a smart wristband that uses a wireless connection to smartphones to power a new generation of devices that monitor personal health and environmental data. In a study that was published in the journal Microsystems and Nanoengineering, researchers from Rutgers […]
09/24/2018
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By Cassie B.
Whiny feminists claim new, bigger iPhones are somehow sexist
When Apple announced its new smartphone lineup recently, much of the attention was focused on the bigger size of some of its offerings. As smartphones increasingly become laptop replacements for many people, it’s a reasonable business move to cater to the growing demand for bigger screens. What isn’t reasonable, however, is the surprising response from […]
09/24/2018
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By Cassie B.
Former Google bigwig launches AI “church” that positions technology as GOD
It might be tempting to crack jokes about today’s smartphone-obsessed youth seeming to worship their devices, but for one man, the concept of technology as a deity is reaching disturbing heights. Former Google executive Anthony Levandowski has filed IRS paperwork to establish an official religion devoted to technology. Not only will this bizarre religion worship […]
09/14/2018
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By Cassie B.
Google engineers and scientists flee the company as EVIL takes over
Google has become so unethical that even some of its own employees want nothing to do with it anymore. In the latest example of the company driving away valued workers, senior research scientist Jack Poulson has quit his job in protest of the company’s plans to launch a censored version of the Google search engine […]
09/07/2018
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By Cassie B.
Yahoo email caught secretly scanning user emails to build psych profiles to sell to advertisers
We all know that tech companies collect our data and use it to make money through advertising. In fact, it’s gotten to the point where we pretty much expect the things we search for and the sites we visit to be used for these purposes. However, if you use Yahoo Mail or AOL Mail, even […]
09/05/2018
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By Cassie B.
Which evil corporation is more dangerous: Google or Amazon?
Tech giants get a lot of flak these days. Their successes might be admired by entrepreneurs around the world and studied by business students for generations to come, but their immense power puts them in a position that makes a lot of people uncomfortable, and they’ve already abused that power in a lot of disturbing […]
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