Lanny Smoot: First Disney Imagineer inducted into Inventors Hall of Fame

Being a Disney Imagineer, Lanny Smoot is, as he says, “in service of people having fun.” And he’s nothing if not industrious. His long career as a theatrical technology creator, investor, electrical engineer, scientist, and researcher has resulted in a… Continue reading Lanny Smoot: First Disney Imagineer inducted into Inventors Hall of Fame

Subscription Sticker Shock: Streaming Video, Music, Storage, and More (Premium)

You’ve all seen the news: the prices of the online services we all subscribe to are going up this year. That it’s time to scale back is obvious, but the good news is that we have more choices than ever. And that’s especially true of streaming video ser… Continue reading Subscription Sticker Shock: Streaming Video, Music, Storage, and More (Premium)

Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014

When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [SPOILER ALERT!], there was just one problem with that theory: Their top suspect had killed himself more than a year before the hackers began publishing stolen user data. Continue reading Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014