If you’ve spent any time online, you’ve no doubt heard the news: Research shows that a huge majority of fan hostility toward the oft-maligned The Last Jedi was the work of Russian bots and trolls. In this day and age, embroiled as we are in the ‘culture wars’, it’s tempting to take this news at…
The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it had seized nine copycat websites that harvested and sold users’ personal information by posing as US military recruitment sites. The operators of websites such as Army.com and NavyEnlist.com tricked people interested in joining the military out of their personal information by falsely claiming to be affiliated…
When Galen Manners was offered a promotion at his job, he didn’t want to relocate to the big city from his family in rural Kansas, where he helped his two brothers run their 2,000-acre farm in his spare time. His employer gave him the option to work from home. But there was one problem….
BitSend, a Netherlands based Bitcoin company, has developed a new social currency called Checkcoin. Checkcoin (CKC) is a social currency that allows users to “check-in” at various locations worldwide. Checkcoin rewards users that check in at various locations around the world with Checkcoins. Thus, the currency is rewarding for those that like to travel to…
