Step 1: Open Spotify on your smartphone. Step 2: Search for your book in the audiobook section. Step 3: Tap "Scan to listen" and allow camera access with the pop-up. Step 4: Take a photo of the ...

Today marks the first of a two-part series about the use of automated license plate readers, commonly known as LPRS or Flock ...

Hackers are abusing a legitimate but long-revoked EnCase kernel driver in an EDR killer that can detect 59 security tools in ...

Credit card thieves count on you swiping in places where you are distracted, rushed, or standing in the dark. I focus on the ...

Payment processing touches almost every business, whether you sell online, in person, or both. Yet most merchants treat it like a technical maze. They know that payment processing costs money, but not ...

Picture yourself pulling up to the pump and choosing to pay with your Charizard or Blastoise card. Or perhaps Pokemon isn’t your thing — so you pay with an old-school Blockbuster card or McLovin ...

Legacy magnetic stripe cards function like an open book—your payment information sits static on a physical strip, identical across every transaction. It's analogous to using the same password for ...

Ever since the demise of Google Reader way back in 2013, it feels like the internet has been moving away from RSS feed readers. Corporations have been opting for something much more easily monetized ...

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

After nearly six hours of public comment and council discussion, the San Diego City Council voted Tuesday evening to approve the continued use of 54 surveillance use policies by the San Diego Police ...

Anti-ALPR activists gather at Civic Center Plaza on Dec. 4, 2025 in front of a giant inflatable camera. (Photo by Adrian Childress/Times of San Diego) Councilmembers Sean Elo-Rivera and Henry Foster ...