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TECHi Impact examines how technology reshapes markets, regulation, and society. From antitrust battles and AI policy to tariff wars and geopolitical tech conflicts — Impact covers the forces that move stock prices and change industries overnight. The intersection of technology, power, and consequence.

Robot Curtain Makes Privacy Cool Again

Robot Curtain Makes Privacy Cool Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhbUjVyKIc Niklas Roy's workshop has a large window right in front. After getting fed up of passersby peering in, he...

You’ll Have To Walk the Walk To Talk the Talk

You’ll Have To Walk the Walk To Talk the Talk

You think your phone is a target for would-be identity thieves now? Wait until this phone-as-method-of-payment madness touches down -...

Facebook Rolls Out Yet Yet More Privacy Features

Facebook Rolls Out Yet Yet More Privacy Features

Another day, another shipment of new Facebook features. But today is unlike any other day. Today, said features even dare...

UK ISPs Profit From Invading Customer Privacy

UK ISPs Profit From Invading Customer Privacy

ISPs in the United Kingdom are making money from the process of anti-piracy groups taking legal action against copyright infringing...

Yesterday’s Twitter Worm Was All Just A Big Misunderstanding, Guys

Yesterday’s Twitter Worm Was All Just A Big Misunderstanding, Guys

Hey, remember yesterday's Twitter worm? Wasn't that fun? Oh, don't get all frowny, it was a blast. Apparently, it was...

Intel to Malware: “You Shall not Pass!”

Intel to Malware: “You Shall not Pass!”

You may have heard that Intel bought McAfee a few weeks ago. Well that decision had a lot of people...

RFID-Ready Trash Bins Can and Will Betray You

RFID-Ready Trash Bins Can and Will Betray You

Remember when internet refrigerators were attempting to become popular, way back in, like... 2001? Or, rather, I'm pretty sure all...

Your Statuses Are Safe Again – Facebook Rolls Out Remote Logout Feature

Your Statuses Are Safe Again – Facebook Rolls Out Remote Logout Feature

Facebook is, as we speak, rolling out a remote logout feature that will aid those who have absent-mindedly forgotten to...

Will “Banks” For Data Solve Our Privacy Woes?

Will “Banks” For Data Solve Our Privacy Woes?

For years now, what web sites do with our data has become a serious problem in the online world. From...

Airport Security Goes All Total Recall

Airport Security Goes All Total Recall

Continuing today's completely unintentional theme of movie technologies given flesh (er... or the lack thereof, in this case) is a...

The War On Privacy Goes Even Higher Tech

The War On Privacy Goes Even Higher Tech

It's well known that Facebook and Google are in a war to see who invade their users privacy to the...

The Internet is Serious Business: Conservatives Conspire to Rig Digg

The Internet is Serious Business: Conservatives Conspire to Rig Digg

Who said the internet was a sunshiney liberal wonderland of free speech? In an attempt to steer the internet, a...

The Myth and Reality of Kevin Mitnick

The Myth and Reality of Kevin Mitnick

Kevin Mitnick became notorious for his use of social engineering - the act of manipulating people into divulging information, rather...

Rushin’ Roulette – Ternovskiy Brings Down the Chathammer

Rushin’ Roulette – Ternovskiy Brings Down the Chathammer

"I believe that Chatroulette was great in the first honeymoon days after it was launched," says Andrey Ternovskiy, the founder...

Facebook Literally Shows You The Door

Facebook Literally Shows You The Door

Oh, hey, that was slick, Facebook. Go to your account, guys. Right now. New tab. Check out your account options....

The Ultimate Privacy Issue: Facebook Hassles Your Friends After Death

The Ultimate Privacy Issue: Facebook Hassles Your Friends After Death

Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg's own personal privacy invasion tool is known for failing to properly handle issues of security and personal...

Your Accessories Just Aren’t Safe Anymore

Your Accessories Just Aren’t Safe Anymore

Better switch back to your old, yellowed PS/2 mouse. A trio of researchers have shown that USB devices represent in...

YouTube Hacked, Bieber Targeted

YouTube Hacked, Bieber Targeted

This morning it appears as though YouTube has been the subject of a malicious attack, with HTML in comments being...

Imagining A World Without Google

Imagining A World Without Google

Google. It is unquestionably one of the most well-known companies in the world. It has empowered everyday people with information...

New Bike Add-On Allows For Phone Charging… The Green Way

New Bike Add-On Allows For Phone Charging… The Green Way

The green movement has stopped being just about saving our dying planet and has become the fashionable thing to do....