Kelly Paik
Kelly Paik writes about science and technology for Fanvive. When she's not catching up on the latest innovations, she uses her free-time painting and roaming to places with languages she can't speak. Because she rather enjoys fumbling through cities and picking things on the menu through a process of eeny meeny miny moe.
Ransomware is now a felony in California
California just turned ransomware into a felony as of January 1st. The new law officially lays out that utilizing the cyber-extortion tactic is illegal...
China rings in the new year under a thick shroud of air pollution
China’s no stranger to problems with air pollution. But even by their own measure, they’ve clearly outdone themselves for the new year. After two...
Uber challenges California’s self-driving car regulations
Uber just loves testing the legal boundaries of the places it operates in. But in their recent clash with the California DMV over the...
Tech trends of 2016
Maybe it’s because we’re spending more time lounging on the couch with that cup of eggnog. But there's nothing quite like the end of...
Cheetah populations are worse off than we thought
The world’s most famous sprint runner is disappearing quickly. A new study says there are only 7,100 cheetahs left in the wild. It’s a...
The UN wants to ban killer robots before they’re created
If you worry at night about the prospect of robots someday evolving into killing machines brutally taking out human life, then the United Nations...
Mark Zuckerberg ends 2016 by unveiling Jarvis, his personal AI butler
It’s that time of year to start thinking about New Year's resolutions. In that vein, Mark Zuckerberg is giving us an update on how...
Finland experiments with basic income for the unemployed
Come January, the country of Finland will embark an experiment to see what happens when you give a universal basic income to unemployed citizens....
Dinosaur tail preserved in amber is covered in feathers
There’s a remote valley in northern Myanmar where people mine dark chunks of amber that they polish and sell as jewelry at world amber...
Trump and Silicon Valley shows everyone they can play nice
President-elect Donald Trump piled on the platitudes Wednesday when he greeted a room of Silicon Valley tech executives at his Manhattan tower. The meeting...
Latest in Buzz
Facebook now uses a selfie to prove your identity
The next time Facebook notices suspicious activity on your account, they could be asking you to verify your identity via selfie. The social media...
Google now shows wait times for sit down restaurants and soon grocery stores
Google has once again improved the live search results returned for businesses. Last year Google added the ability to do real time crowd tracking....
No one’s in the driver’s seat of these driverless cars by Waymo
This week, Waymo debuted a public test of their self-driving cars in the Phoenix metro area with one very important thing missing - a...