technology

This week’s selection of articles strikes a pretty even balance between technological threats and the perils of Mother Nature. It just goes to show that in this day and age, you need to be prepared for anything.

At the end of the day, ensuring your survival is up to you. Study this week’s articles to learn more ways you can easily and efficiently integrate prepping into your everyday life.

This week’s drop is a bit of a mixed bag. I’ll show you an email scam to avoid, address concerns over sentient appliances, clear up some cybersecurity confusion and introduce a special guest who will be joining us for next week’s mailbag.

With the ever-growing usage of interconnected wireless devices, we’re giving hackers more and more ways to disrupt our everyday lives. And now there’s a way for hackers to disrupt your life — literally.

Health care costs in the U.S. have been rising so steadily for so long that containment barely seems possible. Even optimists don’t dream of …

When you type a website address into a browser, you might have noticed that the letters “http” appear at the front. “HTTP” stands for …

According to some estimates, one man – whose name you’re probably not familiar with – has saved over a billion lives. Who is he? And how has he influenced the current crop of innovators? Josh Grasmick explains…

Entrepreneurs innovate. Bureaucrats regulate. It’s the eternal struggle that exists in our modern economy/government. The people in power try to make the playing field as even and fair as possible. While innovators buck the rules and push the world toward a better tomorrow.

This technology is not simply for modeling and prototyping, either. TV personality Jay Leno uses a 3-D printer to make custom and hard-to-find parts from scratch for his collection of classic cars. Entrepreneurs have been using these printers in a myriad of ways, and the trend is speeding up.

The great inventors/businessmen of the First Industrial Revolution, such as James Watt and Matthew Boulton of steam-engine fame, were not just smart but privileged. …