Today’s Tech Sightings: Mozilla Blocks Flash Player on Firefox Mozilla has blocked all versions of Adobe Flash Player in its Firefox browser due to its vulnerability to attack. Last week’s breach of the Italian company Hacking Team was made possible by a Flash Player bug that hackers exploited. While Adobe issued a patch, there appear […]
Mozilla Blocks Flash; Nadella’s Microsoft; Google’s Photo Mishaps
Posted July 14th, 2015 at 3:09 pm (UTC-4)
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Virtual Warsaw; IBM’s Power Chip; Sexism in Games; Windows 10
Posted July 9th, 2015 at 3:33 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: How the Blind Led Warsaw to Internet of Things A project that started in Warsaw, Poland, a few years ago to help the visually impaired get around the city has taken on new life. The service, which provided an app that gave real-time traffic and navigation information based on the user’s location, […]
AI Demons; the Solar Race; Bitcoin; Cybersecurity; Firefox
Posted July 7th, 2015 at 4:16 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Five Ideas to End the Demonization of Artificial Intelligence The Future of Life Institute recently announced 37 winners of research grants in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), following concerns and warnings from luminaries such as Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence. The project is […]
Ad Malware; Ozzie the Goose; IoT Insecurity; Microsoft Mobile Payments
Posted April 8th, 2015 at 2:00 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Malicious, Large-Scale Google Ad Campaign Slams Users With Malware Researchers with Dutch security company Fox-IT found that advertisements distributed by Engage Lab, one of Google’s advertising partners in Bulgaria, redirect users to the Web-based Nuclear Exploit Kit. This particular exploit attempts to install malware on users’ computers by targeting vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash […]
Hacking Sony; Stephen Hawking; Browser Wars
Posted December 2nd, 2014 at 2:34 pm (UTC-4)
Today in Tech Sightings: How Intel Helped Stephen Hawking Communicate With the World Celebrated astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, Director of Research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology in Cambridge, suffers from a degenerative motor neuron disease that has made it impossible for him to communicate with the world without the aid of technology. Now, Intel has […]
Tech Sightings, June 11, 2014
Posted June 11th, 2014 at 2:12 pm (UTC-4)
New Technology Aims to Rid World Cup of ‘Ghost Goals’ Soccer’s governing bodies are working to resolve the issue of the “ghost goal” – a situation where it is impossible to tell if an air-borne ball in the goal area actually crosses the goal area. Now, with the help of a German company, FIFA will […]