Today’s Tech Sightings: Robot Finds ‘Monster’ Film Prop In Loch Ness Munin, an underwater robot, has been making an in-depth exploration of Scotland’s famous Loch Ness. Scientists undertook the mission to investigate an underwater trench said to house the nest of the fabled Loch Ness monster. So far, it has managed to find some film […]
Robot Joins Search for Loch Ness Monster; Facebook’s Bots Are Coming
Posted April 13th, 2016 at 12:57 pm (UTC-4)
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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 […]
Dinotrux 5-Minute Favorites; TV Networks Reading Minds
Posted November 4th, 2015 at 2:08 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Netflix, DreamWorks Have Videos to Help Parents Get Kids in Bed Sooner Netflix and DreamWorks Animation have teamed up to give Mom and Dad an upper hand when kids often want to watch ”one more show,” before retiring, Netflix now has three new 5 Minute Favorites based on the animated series Dinotrux — each one […]
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 […]
Cortana’s Super Bowl Pick; the Wearable Future; the Dreaded AI
Posted January 29th, 2015 at 2:16 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Beware Rise of the Machines, Warns Bill Gates Adding his voice to physicist Stephen Hawking and Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk on the dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Microsoft founder Bill Gates said AI could pose a serious threat to humanity unless it is kept under control. Mozilla Puts Old Hardware to […]
Tech Sightings, July 10, 2014
Posted July 10th, 2014 at 2:25 pm (UTC-4)
How a Paralyzed Man Moved His Fingers With His Mind Ian Burkhart, paralyzed from the elbows down since he broke his neck four years ago when diving into deceptively shallow water, was told that he would never use his arms again. But just last month, he moved his right hand just by thinking about it […]