BBC Explaining how a touchscreen works with a sausage

BBC Explaining how a touchscreen works with a sausage

Touchscreens are basically the tech world’s way of saying: “What if we let people poke a sheet of glass and pretend it understands them?” Here’s the magic:Your phone screen is coated with an invisible grid of tiny electrical fields. When your fleshy, sausage-like finger touches it, you disturb the force—like a clumsy Jedi—and the phone […]

My Smart Phone: A Privacy Expert Doesn’t Like What She Finds

My Smart Phone: A Privacy Expert Doesn’t Like What She Finds

I watched this video…and immediately went through my entire phone and deleted a bunch of apps privacy specialist Naomi Brockwell ‪@NaomiBrockwellTV‬ recommended. It’s amazing how cluttered with old apps you never use just sit there on your phone and gather your data. 

Google Is Killing Us (& Other Independent Web Sites and YouTube Channels)

Google Is Killing Us (& Other Independent Web Sites and YouTube Channels)

YouTuber Retro Dodo talks about the challenges of getting search engine results and web traffic after Google made some significant changes to how the search engine works. Sounds like it may be time to put more emphasis on Reddit… The Google Search Engine employs complex algorithms to crawl, index, and rank web pages based on […]