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 […]
3-D-printing Damaged Heritage Sites; Scaling Mount Everest in VR
Posted January 7th, 2016 at 11:58 am (UTC-5)
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Gaza Hacks VoIP; Postcards From North Korea; Java Turns 20; 3-D Printing
Posted May 21st, 2015 at 2:10 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Stuck in Gaza, Hackers Open Lines to the World Tech-savvy Gazans isolated from the rest of the world by an Israeli and Egyptian blockade are now using Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) hacking to rout international calls for a fee. The practice requires dedicated servers to collect as many IP addresses as […]
Wikipedia Denies Purging Feminists; 3-D-Printed Food; the Linux ‘Ghost’
Posted January 28th, 2015 at 2:15 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Wikipedia Denies ‘Purging’ Feminist Editors Over Gamergate Debate Wikipedia has been under fire since The Guardian and others reported last week that five editors opposed to Gamergate were banned from editing gender or sexuality pages. But according to The Verge, a Wikipedia statement today said that “press stories have mistakenly claimed that […]
Uganda’s Robotics Generation; 3D-Printed Buildings; Apple; Windows 10
Posted January 20th, 2015 at 2:37 pm (UTC-5)
Robotics Revolution Hits Ugandan Classrooms Fundi Bots founder Solomon King Benge is betting that a new generation of Ugandans can develop creative skills and learn from robots how to solve real-world problems. His company offers robotics training in 15 schools in Kampala and Gulu in the north that let kids tinker with robotics parts and […]
3D-Printed Cars; iKubu; Kensington Palace Hops on Twitter
Posted January 14th, 2015 at 2:34 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: South Africa Launches Tablet Pilot With Slates for Schools in Gauteng South Africa’s Gauteng province has formally launched a pilot program to give tablets to school children to further their education, along with a plan to upgrade IT infrastructure and connectivity in public schools. Garmin Acquires South African Radar Startup iKubu Garmin, […]
‘The Interview’ Cyberwar; 3D-Printing Cancer; Apple in Russia
Posted December 17th, 2014 at 2:04 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Not Even North Korea Can Stop the Internet Those behind the devastating hack attack that targeted Sony Pictures Entertainment have also threatened violence against theaters showing the movie The Interview. To thwart that group’s effort to prevent people from seeing the picture, which centers around an assassination plot against North Korean leader […]
3-D Printing Goes Wild; Bitcoin Finds Microsoft; the Hacking Wars
Posted December 11th, 2014 at 2:44 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Silicon Valley Summit Explores Ways to Make Tech Workforce More Diverse Leading tech companies, including Apple, Google, Facebook and many others, are participating in a California summit to look at ways to increase diversity in the tech sector, currently dominated by white and Asian men. Microsoft Begins Accepting Bitcoin Microsoft has added […]
Tech Sightings, September 25, 2014
Posted September 25th, 2014 at 2:09 pm (UTC-5)
The Man on a Quest to Open-Source Cancer Research His name is Isaac Yonemoto. He is a chemist; and he is experimenting with open source software to make cancer research available to the world. The goal of his patent-free project, funded by the bitcoin cryptocurrency, aims to revive work on an anti-cancer compound called 9-deoxysibiromycin, […]
Tech Sightings, September 10, 2014
Posted September 10th, 2014 at 2:45 pm (UTC-5)
Botnet Twists the Knife in iCloud Security After stealing pictures of nude celebrities from Apple’s iCloud accounts, hackers are now using a botnet – Kelihos botnet – to send their victims emails, purportedly from Apple, asking them for ID information to address alleged iTunes purchases . Printable Solar Panels May Be Coming to a Device […]