Today’s Tech Sightings: Cuba’s Internet Dilemma: How to Emerge From Web’s Stone Age Cuba is finding its way to the Internet highway the rest of the world has been using, albeit very slowly. The challenge now is for the country to embrace the Internet as a vital tool for business and commerce and a host […]
Cuba on the Web; Indonesia’s Poaching Games; Mobile Addicts
Posted August 27th, 2015 at 3:04 pm (UTC-4)
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Internet.org in Kenya; Intel; GitHub; YouTube Takes on Twitch
Posted August 26th, 2015 at 3:02 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Internet.org Seeks Ties With Kenyan Telcos Facebook’s Internet.org has been in touch with several of Kenya’s telecommunications companies for partnerships that could benefit the country, as part of its efforts to connect remote parts of the world to the Internet. How Intel’s Future Goes Way Beyond the PC As the PC market […]
Superhero Robotics; Linux; China’s Gaming Vernacular
Posted August 25th, 2015 at 5:02 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Superhero-Inpsired Robotic Hand Wins UK Dyson Award British inventor Joel Gibbard of Open Bionics has won the UK’s James Dyson Award for creating low-cost robotic hands inspired by comic superheroes. The idea was to create prosthetics for amputees, which they would not be afraid to show off. Crash-Proof Computers Could Be On […]
Bright Powers Developing World, One Solar Panel at a Time
Posted August 21st, 2015 at 11:00 am (UTC-4)
Solar power is becoming more attractive as installation costs drop. And one company is capitalizing on the trend to power developing countries with solar energy while giving local economies a hand. Bright, a solar subscription service, wants to bring solar energy to as many developing countries as possible, beginning with Mexico, where it has been […]
Kim Jong Un; China Mobile Banking; Android’s ALPs; Privacy
Posted August 20th, 2015 at 3:00 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Kim Jong Un Has His Own Cellular Network According to a former technical director at North Korea’s cellular network Koryolink, Kim Jong Un and other high-ranking officials have their own private cellular network to secure their communications. The 3G network, according to the source, has its own algorithms and operating system. Many Apps […]
Isis Wenger Rallies Women in Tech Against Stereotypes
Posted August 14th, 2015 at 3:08 pm (UTC-4)
Isis Wenger, Platform Engineer with identity management firm OneLogin, told TECHtonics she never anticipated what would happen when she participated in this recruiting ad: Never mind the guys featured on the left and right sides of the poster. It was Wenger’s part, right in the center of the poster, which attracted all the attention. Some […]
Mobile Extends Reach, Potential of Distance Learning
Posted August 7th, 2015 at 1:50 pm (UTC-4)
Distance education is increasingly becoming available to mobile users, both as an alternative and a compliment to structured learning. Some educators hope it could even level the global skills gap. But that remains a work in progress. Open universities that offer MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses with content from participating universities are not new. […]
People With Disabilities Still an Afterthought in Tech Design
Posted July 31st, 2015 at 1:10 pm (UTC-4)
Progress over the past 25 years has made computing more accessible to people with disabilities. But from design to finish, accessibility is still an afterthought in the race to technological innovation. Despite breakthroughs in robotics, speech recognition, eye-motion sensors, virtual reality and many other areas, the general design approach to new products still excludes people with […]
Facebook; Google Translate; Wearable Tech; Windows 10; e-Sports
Posted July 30th, 2015 at 1:09 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Half of the World’s Population Is on Facebook Facebook’s daily active users now average 968 million, an increase of 17 percent over last year. According to Facebook, up to 1.49 billion users – half of the world’s online population of three billion – accessed the social network by the end of the […]
Can Digital Knowledge Be Preserved?
Posted July 24th, 2015 at 3:01 pm (UTC-4)
Two hundred years into the future, descendants of a humanity struck by an unknown catastrophe scavenge for scraps of knowledge that could hold the key to restoring their ancestors’ lost digital past. This is the story of Jonesbridge: Echoes of Hinterland – the first in a fictional trilogy that offers a “portrait of a society […]