2014 saw Artificial Intelligence, 3-D printing and wearable technology expanding into new areas and new gadgets. It marked a turning point with increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. It was a year of upheaval that cast doubt on the viability of cryptocurrencies even as new methods of digital payments were born. And 2014 continued the lack of diversity […]
2014: A Wearable, Heartbleed, Sony-esque Kind of Year
Posted January 2nd, 2015 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
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Tech Sightings, April 24, 2014
Posted April 24th, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
Big Tech Companies Offer Millions to Help With Heartbleed Crisis Amazon.com, Cisco Systems, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel Corp and Microsoft are among the world’s biggest technology companies that have agreed to donate millions of dollars to set up a group to fund improvements in open source programs like OpenSSL, the software whose “Heartbleed” vulnerability has […]
Is There a Future for Passwords?
Posted April 18th, 2014 at 2:34 pm (UTC-5)
Whether you go online to check your email, use social media, shop or play games, the odds are you have more passwords than you can keep straight in your head and even more scribbled on enough sticky notes to decorate an entire room. And they just keep getting longer and trickier as cyber attacks become […]
Tech Sightings, April 15, 2014
Posted April 15th, 2014 at 2:53 pm (UTC-5)
Are Touchscreens Melting Your Kid’s Brain? Touchscreens continue to proliferate, but researchers know very little about what effect they might have on children. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, kids under the age of two should not be using touchscreens, while older kids should limit use to two hours. Heartbleed Heartache: This Was Not […]
Tech Sightings, April 9, 2014
Posted April 9th, 2014 at 2:23 pm (UTC-5)
New ‘Heartbleed’ Bug Poses Major Threat to User Data A new type of bug that affects a widely used Web encryption technology has made data on many of the world’s major websites vulnerable to theft by hackers. How to Protect Yourself from the ‘Heartbleed’ Bug The natural response to the Heartbleed Bug might be the […]