Raymond Tomlinson, the principal scientist at BBN Technologies who is often credited with having sent the first email across the ARPANET in 1971, has shared information about how he uses email today with The Atlantic. While he checks his email "fairly frequently," he can go a whole day or even the whole weekend without checking it.

Car service company Uber has settled with New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman over its use of data in the company's tracking system. The company has agreed to pay a $20,000 fine for failing to provide notice that its "God View," real-time data system which includes information about vehicles, drivers and passengers had been breached.

Forty-eight percent of U.S. parents know their teenager's email password, according to a new report from Pew. The researchers interviewed about 1,000 American parent-teen pairs and found that 61 percent of parents look at their child's browsing history and 35 percent know the password to at least one of their child's social media accounts.

Facebook is running an email and print ad campaign in India taking on The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, who has been standing in the social network's way in its efforts to offer free Internet to everyone in India. Facebook's push says that TRAI's net neutrality rules should not "end up depriving people of the opportunity to come online."

PayPal has warned its customers of a spate of spam emails in circulation. Cyber criminals are using the emails to solicit personal data out of recipients and access their bank accounts and credit cards through their PayPal accounts. The company is urging users to read emails closely to make sure they don't contain suspicious names or misspellings, a sign of spam.

Consumers value good design and want websites, email and mobile apps to be well designed, according to a new report from Adobe. The company interviewed more than 12,000 consumers around the globe for "The State of Content: Rules of Engagement for 2016" report and found that 79 percent of consumers would said they would stop reading content if it doesn't display well on their device and 67 percent said they would stop engaging if it is too long.

Patients with chronic conditions such as asthma, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, diabetes may encounter better health if they can email their doctors, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care. The research found that 56 percent of patients emailed with their doctors in the past year. Thirty-two percent of these patients said the ability to email with their doctor helped improve their health.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump's email list has less than half a million names, much less than Ben Carson (4.5 million), Ted Cruz (3.6 million), and Marco Rubio (2.4 million), according to eDataSource. While his list is small, Trump has the best deliverability across candidates with an average of 95.3 percent, just ahead of Chris Christe who touts a 92.9 percent deliverability rate.

Mobile email tool CloudMagic is expanding to the desktop. The company has launched a new desktop app in the Mac Store which is available for OS X Yosemite and El Capitan. The app features a clean user interface and tools such as distraction-free writing mode and quick filters for viewing starred or unread mail.

Time Warner Cable has notified 320,000 of its customers in New York to change their email account passwords after a breach in its system. The cable company learned about the breach from the FBI. "Our understanding is that the compromise had nothing to do with TWC's systems or processes," the company said in an email this week. "TWC has found no evidence of a breach in its systems that operate and secure email accounts for our customers."