Morgan Forde

Why is Siri female? When the revolutionary voice assistant launched on iPhones in 2010, her gender was taken as a given in the face of her quick-witted, futuristic abilities. It wasn’t until 2017 that male options were provided and by then…

Pokémon GO took the world by storm in the summer of 2016 with millions of people downloading the app and exploring the world through their phones in an attempt to “Catch ‘em all.” Now, Microsoft’s highly popular online world-building game Minecraft,…

How many times does your phone ring a day, only for you to take a look at the number and see either something shockingly close to your own 10 digits or simply "unknown"? Getting tons of robocalls (often fraudulent phone calls from unassigned or…

If it seems like hordes of scooters just showed up on your sidewalk out of nowhere over the past year, you’re actually not wrong. Startups like Lime, Bird, Skip, and others have taken a “better to beg for forgiveness than wait for permission”…

If you have ever been, or have considered being, a dog owner, chances are you’ve heard that adopting from a shelter or rescue facility is way better than buying from a breeder. In actuality, though, it's not quite as clear-cut as "shelters are good"…

The rainforest has been at the heart of environmental conservation efforts for decades. As technology has grown more advanced, scientists have begun experimenting with new ways to not only understand how the rainforest functions, but to give it a…

If you’ve ever had a fear of losing your Apple AirPods (or wondered how literally everyone else isn’t losing theirs), well, you're about to be even more terrified. Recently, a pair of AirPods ventured where few have gone before when Taiwanese naval…

In late April, news broke that Facebook must pay up to $5 billion in fines, as a result of an FTC investigation into the company’s massive data privacy violations during 2017's Cambridge Analytica scandal. Now, as part of its settlement…

Social media platforms have never been short on controversy when it comes to policing their content (or not). We all know that the internet has always had a dark side, however, in recent years, hate groups, disinformation campaigns, Russian bots,…

Facebook reportedly expects to pay between $3 billion and $5 billion in fines after the FTC concludes an extensive investigation into the site’s user privacy violations. According to the Washington Post, this is the highest FTC fine that any tech…

Now that Game of Thrones is back, it’s impossible to ignore the depressing fact that the series is coming to an end in just a few weeks’ time. Filling the inevitable void isn’t easy, as while there have been some licensed Game of Thrones video games…