What were your best nine Instagram photos from 2017?

You might have noticed a new end-of-year trend on Instagram the past few days. If so, you can thank 2017bestnine.com, a website that lets you automatically collect and collage your most-liked photos of 2017. Best Nine has been around for a while, so many of you may be familiar with the tool already. But for … Read more

EFF Applauds ‘Massive Change’ to HTTPS

EFF Applauds ‘Massive Change’ to HTTPS Published on December 31, 2017 at 10:44PM “The movement to encrypt the web reached milestone after milestone in 2017,” writes the EFF, adding that “the web is in the middle of a massive change from non-secure HTTP to the more secure, encrypted HTTPS protocol.” In February, the scales tipped. … Read more

WhatsApp Rings in the New Year with a Global Outage

WhatsApp Rings in the New Year with a Global Outage Published on January 01, 2018 at 12:34AM WhatsApp went down in several parts of the world today including parts of Europe, Asia, and South America. The crowdsourced website DownDetector found the largest concentration of outages in portions of England, Germany, and virtually all of the … Read more

Hardly Anyone Wants to Ride the Las Vegas Monorail

Hardly Anyone Wants to Ride the Las Vegas Monorail Published on December 31, 2017 at 09:40PM Motherboard describes riding the Las Vegas monorail in 2008. “I was literally the only person on a train built to carry 222 people,” arguing that “the tale of the Las Vegas monorail is an allegory for almost every other … Read more

China halts production of 553 car models over fuel efficiency

There were signs that this crackdown was coming. Regulators had said earlier in December that they would gradually impose stricter emissions standards on new cars, and they recently extended EV tax credits through 2020. Moreover, China hasn’t been shy about wanting to eventually ban all fossil fuel cars. Automakers know they can’t continue the status … Read more