By Joey Gabra Special to YNOT Having a software application that runs automated scripts is a great time-saver when running a business online. These “bots,” which commonly are ignored by users and customers, are dismissed as just another irritant to deal with while online, joining...

LONDON – The “Internet Safety Strategy green paper” published this week by the U.K. government is unsurprisingly sprawling and ambitious. By their nature, green papers essentially are an invitation to consult, a statement of intent calling upon a wide variety of stakeholders to...

Betcha didn’t see this one coming. In a recent article for no less august a publication than AdAge, Daniel Carter, vice president and director of strategy and creative at global media network Carat USA, called online porn a better gauge of audience attention than conventional...

SCHENECTADY, New York – I suppose the real question is whether taking a person’s job counts as “injuring” a human. If so, so long as sex robots are designed in accordance with the Three Laws of Robotics, Ela Darling and her peers needn’t worry about being replaced by them. “Sex...

LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. – My name is Ben, and I’m a selective Luddite. I love the internet, but I avoid approximately 99.999999 percent of it, for instance. I avoid so much of the web, in part, because the idea of watching people unwrap packages sounds like the dumbest possible way to...

A click-fraud malvertising attack that has hidden in the shadows for more than a year lost a major distribution vector when advertising network TrafficJunky and adult tube site Pornhub shut down a pathway that exposed millions of porn-site visitors in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – In a couple of her recent columns for Forbes, psychologist and sex-myth-debunker Dr. Zhana Vrangalova has zeroed in on the results of a study with the catchy title “Sexual diversity in the United States: Results from a nationally representative probability...

By Daniel DiLallo Special to YNOT Anytime technological advances seem poised to affect everyday life, people become nervous. For decades, popular culture has painted alarming images of machines displacing — and then enslaving or annihilating — mankind. Yes, some new technologies...

GUANGZHOU, China – In recent years, a lot of ink and countless column inches have been dedicated to the problem of porn showing up on various social media platforms, so it’s no surprise to see emerging technology designed to help alleviate the perceived problem. As noted in a...

One thing about the digital age: It has hurried up everything. Information and commerce move at the speed of thought. Consumers want whatever they want now, not next week, tomorrow or even 60 minutes from this instant. In order to stay top of mind with consumers, businesses that...