Monthly Archives: August 2025

How long do you last each day before using the internet? If, like many people, you use your smartphone as an alarm, it’s probably not too long. When your alarm goes off, you frustratingly palm at your phone to stop its incessant buzzing and beeping. Then you check your alerts, notifications, and, on occasion, social […]

Whenever you visit a site, you will see either “HTTP” or “HTTPS” right at the start of the URL in the address bar. They are both acronyms, and the first four letters stand for “hypertext transfer protocol.” They are there to let you know which protocol the site you’re visiting uses to transfer data over a […]

Over thirty years ago, back on February 1, 1993, Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates showed off a brand new product, the Wallet PC. He heralded it as a device that would make it unnecessary to carry around cash, cards, and photos.  “There’s no reason why you can’t just carry a single little PC about the size […]

In classic sci-fi movies like “Terminator” (1984) and “The Matrix” (1999), Artificial Intelligence (AI) gains sentience and dedicates its immense computer-brainpower to exterminating or enslaving mankind. In our reality, however, AI is what teachers warn students about not because it poses a threat to their personal safety (yet), but because relying on it too much […]