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What is TOR browser?

Submitted by Dave Won on Fri, 07/18/2014

TOR is a modified version of Firefox that has the ability for you to surf the Internet without the need to worry about who is watching what you search, after recent revelations of Government spying on our personal information it now makes even more sense to try to get a bit of our privacy back because I truly believe in this day and age we will never get it back.

Brandmotion Ships Vehicle-Specific Wireless Charging Phone Kits

Submitted by Press Release on Tue, 07/08/2014

SOUTHFIELD, MI, July 8, 2014 (SDG MEDIAWIRE) – In 2015, The Toyota Camry will join the 2014 Jeep Cherokee, 2014 Toyota Avalon and a handful of other vehicles as the only ones to be equipped with wireless phone charging from the factory. Well before that, Brandmotion will make custom-fit wireless charging a reality for just about every other vehicle on the road today. The Southfield, Mich.-based provider of innovative, vehicle-specific safety, convenience and customization solutions announced it has begun to ship the first four kits in its FreedomCharge line.

Walmart Facial Recognition Cameras At Head Level

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 07/02/2014

Over the last 4 months Walmart has been trialing facial recognition systems with Facebook in many of its US stores.

The newest cameras are being trialed at head level in the technology sections with a screen with the flashing word “recording” these are to ease the customer in to the fact that there are cameras watching and make them not look as scary.

Also more head level cameras are now at the entrances of the stores, facing in and out of the lobby area.

689,003 People turned into lab rats on Facebook without consent

Submitted by Dave Won on Mon, 06/30/2014

689,003 People turned into lab rats on Facebook without consent
Well they have done it again at Facebook messing with people’s minds, allowing researchers to conduct an experiment on 689,003 English speaking users during Jan. 11 to Jan. 18, 2012. The experiment was posting comments and photos that were more positive or negative to see how people react.

The study is here:  National Academy of Sciences

DuckDuckGo: an Amazing Search Engine with Real Results

Submitted by Dave Won on Fri, 06/13/2014

For years now we have come accustom to having every little piece of information that we search for on the internet sold, given away, exploited and used by law enforcement without warrant. Fast forward to 2014, people have had enough! The most rapid growing search engine is DuckDuckgo.com everything about it is better than what Google is throwing down our mouths and making us adapt to secretly and sometimes blatantly obvious .

Our Woes With Youtube

Submitted by Eric Smith on Tue, 06/10/2014

Some of you may remember the regular Wontek video reviews that we used to produce for various products and services, also our special coverage of CES 2013. Well late last year we encountered a technical error where we were having trouble getting our share of income from videos that were produced and uploaded on to Youtube.