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Impact assesses the role of technology and its effects on evolving industries, society and environment. It explores moral conundrums, environmentally friendly fixes, and revolutionary technological uses that tackle world issues. This section emphasizes how technology has the power to change people’s lives and create a lasting impact.

It’s Quit Facebook Day! You Ready?

It’s Quit Facebook Day! You Ready?

Alright people, time to pack it up. It's Quit Facebook Day, and it's time we all banded together and showed...

We’re Not Fooled: Ignoring Privacy Is Facebook’s Business Model

We’re Not Fooled: Ignoring Privacy Is Facebook’s Business Model

After a slew of loud criticism, Facebook have rolled out new, more understandable privacy controls. At the core of the...

Green Phone Relieves Your Nerd Guilt

Green Phone Relieves Your Nerd Guilt

As a gadget nerd, it's important to carry only the very latest cell phone, mp3 player and camera. But poor...

A Matter of Trust: 10 Places Google Collects User Data From

A Matter of Trust: 10 Places Google Collects User Data From

  By now, everyone in the tech world and beyond has heard about Google's data collection from unsecured Wi-Fi networks...

Facebook’s New Privacy Controls Due Tomorrow

Facebook’s New Privacy Controls Due Tomorrow

This week will see a bunch of changes to Facebook's privacy controls, addressing the ongoing concerns that Facebook is unconcerned...

Facebook Privacy: Zuckerberg Sheds Some Light

Facebook Privacy: Zuckerberg Sheds Some Light

The plane has all but crashed into the goddamn mountain for Facebook, but Zuckerberg is still hoping against hope to...

Facebook vs. Canada. It’s about to get ugly.

Facebook vs. Canada. It’s about to get ugly.

It looks as though Facebook might face a court appearance before a federal judge in Canada real soon. This ongoing...

Disgracebook: NOW What?

Disgracebook: NOW What?

While I don't like Facebook due to its stance on privacy, I believe that the outright witch hunt against Facebook...

Google Infringes Upon Facebook’s Business Model: Invading User Privacy

Google Infringes Upon Facebook’s Business Model: Invading User Privacy

Privacy is a hot button issue right now, but Facebook isn't the only big player vying for a piece of...

Spokeo: The Internet White Pages For Stalkers

Spokeo: The Internet White Pages For Stalkers

Concerned about the security of your personal information on the internet? We all are, and thanks to Mark Zuckerberg, we're...

Has Facebook’s Evil Genius Gone Too Far?

Has Facebook’s Evil Genius Gone Too Far?

"Do no evil." That was the now famous philosophy that Google portrayed to the world, claiming that a business doesn't...

Solar Waterfall Planned For the 2016 Olympics

Solar Waterfall Planned For the 2016 Olympics

Going green can be beautiful. By the time of the upcoming 2016 Olympics, being held in Rio de Janeiro, a...

Apple’s Green Thumb Gives Other Companies Black Eyes

Apple’s Green Thumb Gives Other Companies Black Eyes

Apple is well known throughout the industry as being on the forefront of eco-friendly design and production. That is respectable,...

Open Facebook

Open Facebook

Facebook and privacy go together like Hilary Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Yesterday it was revealed that yet another security breach...

Video Game Violence: An Astonishingly Simple Perspective

Video Game Violence: An Astonishingly Simple Perspective

The year: 1961. The game: Spacewar! The objective: to kill the other enemy ship. The realization: this was the first...

Save Money; Save The Planet With Fujitsu’s Power Strip

Save Money; Save The Planet With Fujitsu’s Power Strip

Even if you’re uncertain where you stand in the green debate, rising electricity bills alone should be enough to get...

Phone Recycling Becomes Big Business

Phone Recycling Becomes Big Business

Two former technology bigwigs have banded together to bring cell phone recycling to the streets. Ron LeMay, formerly Chief Executive...