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Bionic Eyes; Schooling Vietnam; Android Malware; Google Maps

Posted July 22nd, 2015 at 3:04 pm (UTC-5)
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Today’s Tech Sightings: World First Bionic Eye Gives Hope to Millions A British pensioner suffering from macular degeneration has become the world’s first person to be fitted with a bionic eye.  The ground-breaking operation gave Ray Flynn, an electronic implant that works with a camera attached to his glasses to send video feeds to healthy […]

Poverty & the Internet; Adobe Flash; Hacking Team Domino Effect

Posted July 15th, 2015 at 3:10 pm (UTC-5)
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Today’s Tech Sightings: Poverty, More Than Geography, Determines Who Gets Online in America A new map of the digital divide in the United States, released by the White House Council of Economic Advisers, reveals that 80 percent to 90 percent of households in the most affluent sectors are connected to the Internet, while the percentage […]