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Your update broke my computer. Looking at a screen that says "This is taking longer than expected" for the last half hour. Grrrrr.

Or so they say. I looked on the LA County Library site but I didn't see it. No word on if they're doing it in other states or what libraries it...

Ten years before man walked on the moon, a group of software engineers created the Common Business-Oriented Language—better know as Cobol—to...

The scams usually work this way: A person searching for tech help calls the number listed on an online ad. Once connected, the scammers ask for...

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This is getting spooky. I went to Costco a couple days ago. I got home and got a message from Google telling me to "rate my...

I have an alarm system and I learned recently it can act as a ZWave Hub. I had been considering some level of home automation and thought I could...

I wrote a somewhat long review on the Netgear Orbi. Unfortunately I received an internal server error from the site and it was dumped. I'm not...

We've talked about it before and people have accused sites of censorship for moderating or dropping comments sections altogether, but trolling,...

Alexa, stop!” Joanne Sussman screamed in her living room.

Immediately, the computer living inside her Amazon Echo speaker stopped playing her...

Democratic Underground and their sister site Discussionist are off the air on game day. #-o

The biggest day of their life and they get hacked....

Mark Zuckerberg created a stir over an Instagram post this summer of him at his desk. If you look closely, you’ll see tape covering the Facebook...

I've been working on the site for a few weeks, off and on, and I've been keeping a File Explorer window open almost continuously. I rarely maximize...

"For what?"

"Yahoo."

"What's that?"

"A search engine."

"Like Google?"

"Yeah, kinda, but...

I hope I am not being an alarmist. I recieved this from a friend and wanted to share this with everyone.

Hi All,

I checked with Norton Anti-Virus,...

I picked up a Bose SoundTouch system yesterday. I'm impressed. I was surprised how expensive it was, but it really does work nicely. It did...

"Microsoft introduced a new alarm clock app to the Play Store on Thursday that aims to rouse even the VanWinklest of sleepers. The Mimicker...

Introducing the NEW Grito App!

I guess if you have a sore throat or you're too embarrassed to scream "AAAYHAYHAAYHAAYHAAYHUI" at the top...

From a slideshow I saw this morning:

Vessyl - a 13 oz. cup you connect to with an app that analyzes what you put in it. Nags you about calories and...

Life is short, have an affair.

I had never heard of this site, but that's their motto. Now they have been hacked and millions of people worldwide...

Very interesting. I've had Flash set on "Ask first" for a few months because it's gotten so annoying but now they're turning it off...

I just bought a new laptop. it came with windows 8. It's driving me nuts. I can't find the tool that turns off "feature" of opening a new...

Reddit is finally growing up. Or at least it’s trying.

For a decade, the site has been known for its anonymous user-driven community,...

Hello,

My name is Ariane Jong and I'm a student at Chapman University in Orange. I'm looking for a for someone who has experience with internet or...

The group that oversees the Internet's naming and address system on Thursday asked the Federal Trade Commission to review whether any laws have...

With the internet evolving everyday, personal privacy seems to be getting smaller and smaller. Our devices like phones, GPS, and smart TVs continues...

A lot of sites have gone to infinite scrolling, where there's no "next page" button and you just keep scrolling to get to older material. I...

I'm not sure if other people are getting it, but,

Traceroute from home:

Tracing route to occonnect.com
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 1 ms 2...

The next version of our software is coming out on Tuesday but it will be a while before I update. The changes that will be apparent to the user are...

Read this article in the NY Times about "screen time" that I thought was interesting. I do almost all my reading on a screen these days....