Category Archives: NEWSBYTES

Your wireless router could be murdering your houseplants

Are you slowly killing your houseplants? Probably! But there might be a reason (other than neglect) why they’re all yellow and wilty: your Wi-Fi router. An experiment by a handful of high school students in Denmark has sparked some serious international interest in the scientific community. Five ninth-grade girls at Hjallerup School in North Jutland, Denmark, noticed they… Read More »

China’s moon rover takes its first photo

First, China takes over the world economy, now it looks like they’re going to take over the moon. Honest! Many conspiracy theorists will tell you the U. S. never landed on the moon in 1969 — it was all just a movie set. I wonder what they’ll make of these Chinese pictures from the moon. You’d think since… Read More »

What The Heck Will Google Do With These Scary Military Robots?

This comes to us via Forbes…a publication, we as poor folks. don’t normally read. But we found this article interesting and somewhat unsettling. What do you think? What The Heck Will Google Do With These Scary Military Robots? Let’s see, we have a company that already knows everything about us, has possibly the world’s largest computer network, has… Read More »

FBI: Malware Developers

It seems every day there is something else in the news about our government encroaching on our personal lives. Now it has been revealed that the FBI hackers have been developing malware. It’s not surprising; I think most of us know the government hires the best hackers and pays them well. So here you go… This Ars Technica… Read More »

Google: We’re Winning Against Phishing and Spam Emails

We’ve always been fans of Google…maybe because we were on the Web before Google and watched their birth and their growth. Of course, Google has grown quite large and now dominates the search market, may soon win the browser wars, and within a few years may indeed overtake Windows with the Android operating system for desktops and laptops… Read More »