Today’s Tech Sightings: Crowdfunding Campaign Aims to Raise Money for Teenage Girl Coders From Mumbai Slum Started in 2014 by filmmaker Nawneet Ranjan, a slum innovation project in India’s Mumbai has been producing mobile, open source apps to help teenage girls deal with everyday problems such as sexual harassment, water access and education. The project […]
Raising Girl Coders in Mumbai’s Slums; Can All iPhones Be Hacked?
Posted March 29th, 2016 at 11:57 am (UTC-4)
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Apple Warns of ‘Surveillance’ Future; New Ransomware Impossible to Crack
Posted March 17th, 2016 at 11:35 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Even CEO Tim Cook is Suggesting Apple Could Be Forced to Build ‘Surveillance OS’ Apple CEO Tim Cook, in an in interview with Time, warned that the future could very well herald a scenario where the government can force tech companies to develop software to spy on their users. The comment comes […]
India’s Biometrics Raise Privacy Fears; Malware Slams Major Media Websites
Posted March 16th, 2016 at 12:32 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: India’s Billion-member Biometric Database Raises Privacy Fears Biometrics might prove to be one solution to cybersecurity intrusions, but it is a cause for concern, particularly in India. Citing national security interests, the country’s parliament is getting ready to pass a bill that would give government agencies access to the world’s largest biometrics […]
USBs Fight N. Korea’s Media Ban; Facebook’s Dilemma in India
Posted February 9th, 2016 at 11:07 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Old USB Drives Fight North Korea’s Media Ban The New York-based Human Rights Foundation and Silicon Valley nonprofit Forum 280 have launched a new initiative to collect USB flash drive donations and then ship them to the Koreas. Once activists in Seoul, such as the non-profit North Korean Strategy Center, receive the […]
3-D-printing Damaged Heritage Sites; Scaling Mount Everest in VR
Posted January 7th, 2016 at 11:58 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: How 3-D Printers Can Help Preserve Heritage Sites Historical heritage sites have paid a heavy toll for the exploits of Islamic State fanatics in the Middle East. But a joint venture between the Institute for Digital Archaeology, Harvard University, the University of Oxford and the Museum of the Future in Dubai is […]
Online Harassment; Apps for the Blind; Bitcoin; iOS 9.1
Posted October 22nd, 2015 at 12:02 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Experts Address How Silicon Valley Can Solve Online Harassment Despite all the wonders of the Internet, it remains a playground for abusers looking to silence minority voices. Wired talks to six experts about what Silicon Valley can do to help put an end to online harassment. How One Woman is Using Instagram […]
Bionic Eyes; Schooling Vietnam; Android Malware; Google Maps
Posted July 22nd, 2015 at 3:04 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: World First Bionic Eye Gives Hope to Millions A British pensioner suffering from macular degeneration has become the world’s first person to be fitted with a bionic eye. The ground-breaking operation gave Ray Flynn, an electronic implant that works with a camera attached to his glasses to send video feeds to healthy […]
Mind-Controlled Robots; Samsung Updates; Flash, Android Woes
Posted June 24th, 2015 at 3:46 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Mind-Controlled Telepresence Robots Could Restore Mobility to the Disabled Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Defitech Foundation Chair in Brain-Machine Interface in Lausanne are developing a brain-computer interface that will allow disabled people to control telepresence robots with their minds. After training, disabled users participating in early tests were able […]
Printed Prosthetics; Green Chips; iPhone Blues; IoT; Instagram
Posted May 27th, 2015 at 3:30 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Google Pledges $20 Million to Give 3-D Prosthetics a Helping Hand The Director of Google’s non-profit Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller, announced the launch of the Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities project in a blog post, with $20 million in funding. The project is intended to support people with disabilities and push the development of […]