Today’s Tech Sightings: That’s A Wrap: Sony To Kill Off Betamax Tapes It’s the final chapter in a long-running “format war” which began in the 1970s. Sony announced it will stop selling Betamax video cassettes in March 2016. New tapes have been available only in Japan for several years — even though the company discontinued Betamax […]
Tech Sightings, August 6, 2014
Posted August 6th, 2014 at 2:14 pm (UTC-4)
One-Size-Fits-All Textbooks Don’t Make Sense in the Digital Age A non-profit group based at Rice University is developing a new approach to learning. In the next two years, OpenStax will produce personalized interactive books that better match individual learning aptitudes. The Inspiration for ‘The Bionic Man’ Shares His Thoughts on the Future of Bionics Bertolt […]
Tech Sightings, January 9, 2014
Posted January 9th, 2014 at 4:11 pm (UTC-4)
The Digital Divide isn’t Racial – it’s Economic A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds there’s no difference in Internet usage between whites and African Americans at the same income level, although college education appears to reduce the gap for people under 50. Best of CES 2014 The editors at […]
Tech Sightings, January 1, 2014
Posted January 1st, 2014 at 4:58 pm (UTC-4)
How Mobile Technology is Changing Medicine As We Know it Technology is constantly shaping medicine and has led to a number of innovations in the past decade. But the emergence of mobile devices in the past few years has given rise to a fledgling branch of health-care technology called mobile health. Beirut Startup Enters Wearable […]