• How to Hide Twitter and Facebook Metrics and Be a Happier Person

    How to Hide Twitter and Facebook Metrics and Be a Happier Person

    I personally know people who hang off of the number of likes that they get on social media.  It’s almost like they value their own self-worth based on the number of likes.  This isn’t me.  I don’t have that many followers on social media, so it’s not like I’m going to get a lot of…

  • Facebook Files Patent for a Robot, But Why is Anyone’s Guess

    Facebook Files Patent for a Robot, But Why is Anyone’s Guess

    Facebook has recently filed a patent for a “self-balancing robot that transitions from a three-wheeled mode to a two-wheeled self-balancing mode”.  Does this make any sense to you?  To date, we typically haven’t seen Facebook bringing us much by way of hardware, so what they intend to do with this are a bit vague.  They…

  • Security Researcher Finds Bug in Facebook – Gets Paid $2,500

    Security Researcher Finds Bug in Facebook – Gets Paid $2,500

    Tech companies, like Apple and Facebook, actually pay people who are able to locate and then report on bugs found within their software.  Recently, Facebook paid a security researcher $2,500 for information on a bug that took him less than 3 minutes to discover without any testing or proof of concept.  The vulnerability was exposing…