Today’s Tech Sightings:
Amazon’s Echo, an Internet-connected digital assistant that can be set up in a home or office to listen for various requests, such as songs, sports scores or the weather, is shown in New York, July 29, 2015. (AP)
Home Digital Assistants Could Be Boon for Assisted Living
Voice-activated devices and digital assistants are quickly spreading and Elliptic Labs, which uses ultrasound technology to detect motion, wants to use the technology to help the elderly. The company is launching new software that can be added to digital assistants like Amazon’s Echo. The motion-detection program can send an alert from an elderly person’s home, for example, if it does not sense any movement for a prolonged period of time.
Nonprofit tech movement HackerNest is holding a coding session called DementiaHack in Toronto on March 4. The event is intended to raise awareness about dementia and encourage the development of products to help people with dementia and their caregivers.
This Tiny Chip Could Revolutionize Smartphone, IOT Security
A new chip unveiled at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, could significantly improve mobile security. The chip, developed by South Korean engineers at SK Telecom, can generate secure random numbers, which are then used to create encryption keys. These numbers have not been generated before with anything as small as this chip, a 5 millimeter square the size of a fingernail.
More:
- Facebook Unveils Latest Africa Initiative at World Mobile Congress
- Visa, MasterCard Beef Up Mobile Payment Tech at Mobile World Congress
- Hackers Target Singapore Defense Ministry, but No Secrets Found
- Security Expert Says Stuffed Toys Database Left Personal Data Exposed
- Tens of Thousands of Chromebooks Fail Because of Symantec BlueCoat Problem
- A New Way to Prevent Cyberattacks on Home Devices
- Why Quality Encryption Is Actually Helping Hackers Hack
- Breakthrough in ‘Wonder’ Materials Paves Way for Flexible tech, IoT Capabilities
- Big Banks, Tech Giants Back Bitcoin-rival Ethereum
- Google’s Jigsaw Launches Troll-Thwarting API
- Nokia and Google: Tech’s Most Unlikely BFFs?
- 81-year-old Japanese Woman Launches Her First App for iPhone
