Today’s Tech Sightings: Twitter Opens Up Account Verification Twitter used to award its “verified account” blue badge to celebrities who might contend with fake accounts using their names. Now, any public Twitter account can apply to get the verification, provided users fill up a form with information about their influence level and various personal data. […]
Twitter Account Verification Now Open; Indian Teen Wins Google Award
Posted July 20th, 2016 at 1:45 pm (UTC-4)
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Pakistan Goes for Robocup Glory; Russia’s New Online Spying Laws
Posted June 27th, 2016 at 9:36 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Pakistani Roboteers Hunt Global Soccer Glory For the first time, students at Pakistan’s National University of Science and Technology will participate in the annual RoboCup tournament, held this year in Leipzig, Germany, June 30–July 4. The Pakistani ‘team’ of six humanoid robots was purchased from France, costing about $17,000 each. Russia’s State […]
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 […]
Amazon Takes on Math; Bitcoin’s Future Could Be in Developing World
Posted February 2nd, 2016 at 11:45 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Think You Stink at Math? Amazon Wants to Change That Amazon, in collaboration with Stanford University and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is launching a new initiative to help kids and teachers look at math in a more favorable way. The initiative – With Math I Can – has a […]
Dropbox Malware Found; Google Denies Deception in Tracking Kids
Posted December 3rd, 2015 at 11:55 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: New Malware Found Hidden Inside Dropbox Account Researchers at U.S.-based security firm FireEye have discovered a new malware in Hong Kong that hides its Command and Control server in Dropbox accounts. The hackers, called ‘admin@338,’ are thought to have ties to the Chinese government. The malware targets media organizations and creates a […]
Dell Apologizes for Certificate Fiasco; Amazon’s Bezos Joins Twitter
Posted November 24th, 2015 at 12:30 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Dell Apologizes for HTTPS Certificate Fiasco, Provides Removal Tool Dell has issued an apology after shipping PCs with a certificate that makes it possible for hackers to impersonate HTTPS-protected websites. The company also released a tool that helps users of affected machines remove the faulty security credential. Dell officials said the certificate […]
Snapchat & Teens; Your AI Muse; Apple; Online Reviews
Posted October 20th, 2015 at 12:00 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: I’m 15 and Snapchat Makes Me Feel Awful About Myself Writer Ruby Karp argues that Snapchat’s latest update encourages FOMO or fear of missing out among teenagers. She says teens are obsessed with the Snapchat stories feature, which lets them “boast” about who they are with, what they’re doing — and “what […]
Margaret Hamilton; Apple News; Google Drones; Pepsi Smartphone?
Posted October 13th, 2015 at 12:00 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Her Code Got Humans on the Moon — and Invented Software You might never have heard of Margaret Hamilton. In the 1960s, she landed a job as a programmer at MIT. But when the Apollo space program came along, she led an engineering feat that would land a man on the moon […]