All Responsible Tech
- How Walgreens went off the gridWalgreens, Florida bank聽erect buildings that will make their own power.
- Millennial Trains Project: A ride for experimental learningWith the Millennial Trains Project,聽Patrick Dowd gathers creative people for a nationwide trip along the rails.聽
- Top 5 ways to manage your many, many passwords Keeping track of passwords on rolodexes is a thing of the past, and saving all of the codes in one place seems a tad irresponsible.If you鈥檙e wondering what the right answer might be, consider these password managers.
- Tech law blog Groklaw shuts down, cites surveillance concernsGroklaw, a blog that focuses on technology law, shut down, according to an announcement from its founder.
- 'White hat' hacker breaks into Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook accountA computer hacker broke into Facebook and posted on Mark Zuckerberg's wall to demonstrate a security breach on the social media site.聽
- Assad supporters hack Outbrain, a content-recommendation serviceA group of pro-Assad hackers redirected traffic from three major US news sources through their content-recommendation service, Outbrain.
- Gmail users do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy, says GoogleGoogle denied that it violates consumers' privacy when it reads e-mails, according to court documents聽
- Apple wants your old USB cordsAfter safety concerns arise in China, Apple now offers a special rate on USB power cords as part of its Adapter Takeback program.
- Google unveils Android-equivalent of 'Find My iPhone'Google鈥檚 Device Manager for Android helps users locate their phones.
- Apple manufacturer accused of labor rights violationsChina Labor Watch accused Pegatron, an Apple聽manufacturer, of labor rights violations
- Facebook for Every Phone app reaches more than 100 million usersFacebook's feature-phone application now reaches more than 100 million users, according to a recent announcement.
- British Prime Minister calls for Internet blacklistIn an effort to combat illegal Web traffic, Prime Minister David Cameron announced a plan to blacklist certain Internet sites, and create "family friendly" Wi-Fi networks.
- FIDO: How a computer vest can help dogs 'talk'Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology devised a new computerized vest bearing the聽acronym 'FIDO' that is meant to bridge the communication gap between service dogs and their owners
- Myanmar unlocks one of Asia's last untapped cellular marketsMyanmar awards cell phone contracts to Norwegian Telenor and Qatari Ooredoo.
- iPhone and Android apps to help you do some goodHow to fund a microloan, find a place to volunteer, or help UNICEF 鈥 from your iPhone or Android device while you wait.
- LinkedIn, Last.fm, now Yahoo? Don't ignore news of a password breach.A Yahoo hack stole passwords from 400,000 user accounts. Add those to the millions snatched last month and it's easy to feel numb toward these breaches. Resist that urge. Friends and associates may pay for your inaction.
- With July 4, more 鈥 but safer 鈥 consumer fireworksFireworks sales have doubled since 1998, but not injuries.