Today’s Tech Sightings: This Mysterious Startup Wants to Kill Computers for Good It’s called Magic Leap – a new startup that is developing a headset or goggles it hopes will do away with computer screens for good. The plan is to use the headset to add an augmented reality layer to the real world view. […]
Augmented Reality Takes on the PC; Your Newscast in Virtual Reality
Posted April 19th, 2016 at 11:59 am (UTC-5)
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Asia Mobile Banking Apps Riddled With Malware
Posted April 15th, 2016 at 10:55 am (UTC-5)
Mobile users are more likely to fall victim to cyberattacks in Asia than in any other region, in part because the continent’s Android mobile banking system is riddled with malware, thanks to a lack of awareness and the proliferation of third-party software. While cybercriminals are likely to attack wherever they can get a foothold, the […]
Encrypting the Entire Web; Facebook’s New Plan to Connect the World
Posted April 14th, 2016 at 11:35 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: A Scheme to Encrypt the Entire Web Is Actually Working Encryption is slowly becoming the enemy, so to speak, as lawmakers, at least in the U.S., rush to enact legislation that would either add back doors to mobile devices or force tech companies to comply with government requests to unlock certain smartphones. […]
Robot Joins Search for Loch Ness Monster; Facebook’s Bots Are Coming
Posted April 13th, 2016 at 12:57 pm (UTC-5)
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 […]
IBM’s Watson Joins Cancer War; Google to Train 1 Million Africans
Posted April 12th, 2016 at 11:33 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: IBM Watson Enlists in War on Cancer IBM’s artificial intelligence system, also known as Watson, is being fed nearly 14,000 pages of all kinds of cancer topics to create a mobile app that can offer personalized advice to cancer patients. The effort is a partnership between IBM and the American Cancer Society. […]
Philippines Suffers Massive Breach; Your Next Car Needs a Firewall
Posted April 7th, 2016 at 12:01 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Megabreach Leaves 55 Million Philippine Voters Exposed The database of the Philippines’ Commission on Elections has been compromised in what could be the biggest government-related breach ever. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Trend Micro found sensitive information, including passport and fingerprint data, among the compromised files. Officials played down the incident, saying sensitive […]
3-D Printing Recreates Rembrandt; The Woman Behind Microsoft’s Tay
Posted April 6th, 2016 at 11:28 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Computer, 3-D Printer Create Perfect Rembrandt Painting ‘The Next Rembrandt’ – a collaboration between historians, software developers, scientists, engineers and analysts – has recreated the work of Dutch painter Rembrandt using a computer and a 3-D printer. The team spent months studying the master’s works in order to create an algorithm that […]
AI Helps Blind Navigate Facebook; China’s Panama Papers Scramble
Posted April 5th, 2016 at 11:54 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Facebook Using Artificial Intelligence to Help Visually Impaired Most of Facebook’s one billion users scroll through their timelines unhindered and unaware that there are many others who cannot see what they see because of visual impairment. Facebook has been working to remedy the situation with a tool powered by artificial intelligence that guides […]
Mayo Clinic Takes on VR Sickness; China Challenges Google’s AlphaGo
Posted March 31st, 2016 at 11:30 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Mayo Clinic Cure Said to Alleviate VR Motion Sickness Some, but not all virtual reality (VR) headgear cause wearers to experience nausea and motion sickness even with higher frame rates and lower latency. But according to Fast Company, the Mayo Clinic hospital has developed algorithms that can trick the VR user’s brain […]
Raising Girl Coders in Mumbai’s Slums; Can All iPhones Be Hacked?
Posted March 29th, 2016 at 11:57 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Crowdfunding Campaign Aims to Raise Money for Teenage Girl Coders From Mumbai Slum Started in 2014 by filmmaker Nawneet Ranjan, a slum innovation project in India’s Mumbai has been producing mobile, open source apps to help teenage girls deal with everyday problems such as sexual harassment, water access and education. The project […]