Awesome Con Lives Up to Its Name (photos)
• April 30, 2019

Smithsonian Magazine once again partnered with the event, a mecca for fans of comic books and science fiction and fantasy, in a series of lectures and panels called Future Con.

Tech Tip: Your Firewall Is Useless Unless …
• April 29, 2019

Your firewall needs to be upgraded and patched on a continual and consistent basis. Also, security policies and configurations need to be set.

Activists Stand Firm at Venezuelan Embassy
• April 25, 2019

A planned press conference this morning, Thursday, April 25, brought out several Secret Service vehicles to keep an eye on the lively but peaceful event.

Earth Day Is the Earth’s Day, All Around Us
• April 22, 2019

Especially in this April time, walk the neighborhoods, go to the zoo, sit on a park bench, march on the trails in the city parks and forests, where light mixes with dark.

Tech Tip: Don’t Just Close Your Browser
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If you simply close your browser, some of the session information is still running in the background —  and a hacker may be able to use that to gain entry.

Notre Dame, Paris’s Beacon, in Dire Jeopardy
• April 18, 2019

Notre Dame is more than a church, of kings and bishops and Christians and martyrs, it is a kind of lifeform of humanity built with stone and wood, that aspires to flight even now.

GU Students Vote for ‘Reconciliation Fee’
• April 15, 2019

The proposed fee of $27.20 per student per semester would create a fund to help descendants of the 272 slaves sold by the university in 1838. 

Tech Tip: Make This Password Different From All the Others
• April 14, 2019

If an e-commerce site you’ve registered at or bought from gets hacked, and you’ve used the same password you use for everything else, hackers are going to gain access to your in-box.

Tech Tip: Set Up Bank Alerts Now
• April 8, 2019

Setting up those alerts will allow you to spot and report fraudulent activity before the money has already been siphoned into a cybercriminal’s hands.

Japanese Stone Lantern Lighting in D.C. (photos)
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Given in 1954 by the governor of Tokyo, the lantern is the oldest freestanding man-made stone structure in Washington that is not in a museum.