Your brain scans your surroundings about four times per second, even while you focus on something else like reading a book.Photo: Pexels By the time you’re finished reading this sentence, your brain will have rapidly assessed your surroundings 14 times to see if you should focus on something else. At least, that’s what new research…

Photo: Getty On Tuesday, Facebook revealed that it has terminated hundreds of pages that were engaged in what it called “inauthentic behavior.” The latest takedown of political influence campaigns was said to involve hundreds of pages with hundreds of thousands of followers which are believed to be tied to Iran and Russia. Social media companies…

Michael Cohen leaves federal court on August 21st, 2018 in New York.Photo: Mary Altaffer (AP) Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s (since-disavowed) former personal attorney, recently reached a plea deal on eight federal felony counts. Some related to illegal payoffs intended to silence two women alleging affairs with the then-candidate in 2016, while others entailed crimes like…

Photo: Richard Drew (AP) Facebook has yanked its vampiric Onavo Protect service—which purports to be a privacy-enhancing Virtual Private Network (VPN) but is by all indications data-harvesting Facebook spyware—from Apple’s App Store. The Wall Street Journal reports that a source said Facebook was compelled to remove the app after Apple “ruled that the service violated…

Here’s the full Nikon Z lineup: the Nikon Z7, the FTZ mount and all three of Nikon’s upcoming Z-mount lenses.Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) With a definite photo-first mindset, the Nikon Z7 features a 45.7-MP sensor—basically the same one as in the D850—except this time it’s powered by Nikon’s new Expeed 6 image processor. Nikon says…