Recently, the popular social media app, Instagram, has been quietly testing a new feature that would hide your number of likes from all your followers or other accounts. Basically, the public won’t be able to monitor the number of likes that your post gets. The original poster will be the only one who would be...
Most people pass through some type of public space in their daily routine — sidewalks, roads, train stations. Thousands walk through Bryant Park every day. But we generally think that a detailed log of our location, and a list of the people we’re with, is private. Facial recognition, applied to the web of cameras that...
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. inCity Magazine’s Publisher, Christopher Thomas speaks with Cyber Security Expert and Founder of Propelled Technologies, Anwar Shahid on ways parents can prevent Cyber Abuse happening to their children. For more questions about Cyber Security, contact Anwar Shahid at anwar @ PropelledTech.com. For more ways to keep your family and...
Without humans to cause accidents, 90% of risk is removed. Insurers are scrambling to prepare. Dan Peate, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur in Southern California, was thinking of buying a Tesla Model X a few years ago—until he called his insurance company and found out how much his premiums would rise. “They quoted me $10,000 a...
Too much tech can be bad for you. Here’s what happens when people are left to fighting their own devices. I knew I had lost control when a good friend confronted me over coffee. In the 30 minutes we had been chatting, I had checked my phone about 11 times. I wasn’t counting — but...
There have been a number of high-profile criminal cases that were solved using the DNA that family members of the accused placed in public databases. One lesson there is that our privacy isn’t entirely under our control; by sharing DNA with you, your family has the ability to choose what everybody else knows about you....
Psychologists can’t seem to agree on what technology is doing to our sense of well-being. Some say digital devices have become a bane of modern life; others claim they’re a balm for it. Between them lies a shadowy landscape of non-consensus: As the director the National Institutes of Health recently told Congress, research into technology’s...
As a child, I was a terrible sleeper. My parents would often find me awake at 3 AM with a flashlight under the covers reading a Hardy Boy, Nancy Drew, or Tom Swift book. When I was 9-years-old, my pediatrician prescribed an awful tasting medicine to be taken at night, mixed with pineapple juice to...
Open Instagram and scroll, and you likely can’t go more than a few seconds without seeing someone you follow promoting a brand, whether it’s a celebrity, a wannabe celebrity, or that random girl you went to college with who’s somehow managed to become a famous fashion blogger. According to the influencer management platform Traackr, 72...
Jeff Bezos, the mastermind behind Amazon.com Inc.’s (AMZN) “everything store,” told employees last week that the company will one day fail, according to an internal meeting heard by CNBC. Lifespan of Large Companies About 30+ Years, Says Bezos At an all-hands meeting last Thursday in Seattle, an employee asked Bezos what lessons he had learned from the...