Reports of hidden cameras in Airbnb and condo rentals as well as the occasional hotel room. As you get ready for your summer vacation, here’s how to discover hidden cameras before you change into your swimsuit.  

  I called this episode 42 the entire time. l Father’s Day is June 17th, do you know what you’re getting dad yet? Tech gadgets have been popular gifts for fathers since the 1960s and they’re even more popular now.

Smart TVs are about all you can find these days in the stores, but if you have privacy concerns you’ll likely want to turn some of the features off. Can you actually turn a smart TV into a dumb one?  

I talk with Tiffany Li, a lawyer, and fellow at Yale University about those DNA family ancestry kits and how police used a database to catch a killer.  

Try to wrap your head around this: There are over 100 million subscribers to Amazon’s Prime membership and the company is increasing the annual price by $20. The math says that’s a $2 billion increase in Amazon’s revenue.

So you find an iPhone that someone has left behind at a coffee shop or restaurant. They’re nowhere around. Without even touching the phone, Siri will tell you who owns it. And a little more information. I went out to see what Siri would tell me.    

This is a departure from the usual topic of What the Tech? but I was thinking today about the pros and cons of working remotely. Technology makes it very easy for many people to work from wherever they want to be.

Facebook’s sharing problem is not the only thing to worry about. We have a problem too.

Pop-up ads on a smartphone are THE WORST! Google has just removed several QR Code reading apps for launching a barrage of pop-up ads on the smartphones that installed them. The offending apps were identified by Sophos Security.