Kecia Lynn
Kecia Lynn has worked as a technical writer, editor, software developer, arts administrator, summer camp director, and television host. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is currently living in Iowa City and working on her first novel.
The Tor Project was originally created to hide dissidents’ online activity in countries that censor the Internet. Westerners now make up a significant share of its volunteer base, but signing on comes with risks.
Not only is the company looking to incorporate unsolicited clips, it’s considering including autoplay functionality. The goal: To grab dollars from advertising budgets currently reserved for television.
This month, proceeds from the purchase of any of three branded items displayed within the popular social game FarmVille 2 will go to the nonprofit organization Water.org.
The Verge’s Nilay Patel digs deeper into the recently-announced policy change that has Instagram users riled up. The reaction reveals that both have something to learn about each other.
A scientist has created a new form of electronic ID that gives sites only the minimum amount of information needed for authentication.
In a country where sports spending is all but nonexistent, two teams look to local businesses — specifically, a brothel and a funeral parlor — for funding.
The BBC is launching three pay-TV channels in the country, including CBeebies, which airs Teletubbies and other preschool programs.
Tea growers have won legal protection for the name, ensuring that, as with certain specially-produced wines and spirits, theirs is the only tea that gets to be called Darjeeling.
Reporters Without Borders has launched a site that “publishes content that has been censored or banned or has led to reprisals against its creator.”
The town of Lens, in northern France, put out a massive effort to convince the Louvre to come. In addition to its art, it’s bringing 750 jobs to the area.
Now that more kids have cellphones at younger ages, teachers and administrators are looking for ways in which they can be used to benefit everyone
Most speakers already know how online life has changed the language. What many may not be aware of is the growing effect of hybrids such as “Hinglish” and “Konglish” that, pre-Internet, were confined to specific groups.
A newly published study examining moral beliefs among self-described liberals, moderates and conservatives reveals that liberals are the worst at stereotyping other groups as well as their own.
StraighterLine, a supplier of low-cost online college courses, recently unveiled a new service that allows professors to sell their courses to students and offer amenities, such as office hours, for an additional price.
A team of designers and programmers are creating an iconography for online privacy that would display warnings about individual sites when you enter them.
Close to one-fifth of the world has no access to a power grid, and for many others, access is spotty and inconsistent. A New York startup now offers an affordable, lightweight solution.
Scientists have succeeded in shaping a solar cell into a fiber that’s flexible enough to be woven into a fabric that can be used to power an electronic device.
Like X-rays, terahertz frequencies see through items, but most machines that use them are large and costly. Two engineers have found a way to shrink the technology onto a chip.
The iTube is a device that attaches to a smartphone and uses its camera and an accompanying app to perform a lab-quality food allergen test.
By substituting a common plant dye for the metals used to extract lithium, researchers say many of the environmental hazards associated with production and disposal can be avoided.
NASA’s Cassini has taken the first-ever high-resolution shot of a river and its tributaries on a planetary body that’s not Earth.
Forget about Mars: British scientists have begun drilling through a two-mile-thick sheet of ice to reach a lake that hasn’t seen sunlight in at least 100,000 years.
Today, oceans are much louder than they used to be, and the noise is putting marine mammals’ ecosystems in danger. The US is beginning what could be the world’s largest shushing effort.
The project, sponsored by 28 nations, has collected more valuable oceanographic data in the last 13 years than any other projects in the history of the science.
The team is one of the first selected to perform research during the first official cycle of the world’s largest airborne observatory.
According to a report released Monday by the FTC, only 20 percent of the 400 most popular children’s apps did so. Efforts to increase this number have been met with resistance from tech companies.
Transit systems in several cities, including San Francisco and Baltimore, are installing microphones that can pick up on conversations, which can then be stored in an onboard data storage unit.
Farmigo, a software company supporting farmers, has recently rolled out a service for groups of people – companies, churches, etc. – to set up personalized online ordering of locally-produced foods.
Eyetease Media recently received permission from the London city government to begin installing its hotspot in a select number of cabs. For the cost of watching one short ad, riders get 15 minutes of Internet access.
San Jose drivers who used a specialized social networking app to stay connected with each other experienced faster driving times and less impatience during their commute.