What not to name your Wi-Fi hotspot
Getting online at an airport is often a far bigger hassle than it has any right to be. There are typically dozens of hotspots that are being transmitted by the devices of other passengers, hotspots…
Mozilla-supported Let’s Encrypt goes out of Beta
In 2014, Mozilla teamed up with Akamai, Cisco, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Identrust, and the University of Michigan to found Let’s Encrypt in order to …
Should Cable, Internet Companies Be Required To Let You Cancel Service Online?
Just about any pay-TV or Internet service provider (often one in the same) lets new customers sign up online. You can do the whole process — check your address for availability (even if the c…
Google Discontinues Google Wallet Card
Ubuntu’s bash and Linux command line coming to Windows 10
Rising from the ashes of Project Astoria.
The little computer that could
Liz: Today we’ve got a guest post from the terrifyingly hirsute Pete Stevens. Pete’s from Mythic Beasts, our web hosts; and he’s the reason this website stands up to the absurd amounts of traffic you throw at it. (Yesterday we saw about a quarter of a million sessions – that goes up WAY above a million …
Wink opens up about surviving the fall of Quirky
Nathan Smith knew that Wink would have to go. It was early in 2015, and the smart home company he'd started less than a year earlier was being held back by the very thing that brought it into…
RadioShack’s VP Of Stores Keeps Reminding People That It Still Exists
RadioShack declared bankruptcy last February and closed around 2,300 of its stores. Around 1,700 of the company’s stores didn’t close, though, and the Shack’s leaders want you to …
Why This Smart Luggage Startup Thinks It Can Roll to the Top
Unlike its best-known competitors, it went the VC route.