Today’s Tech Sightings: Here’s Everything the iPhone Has Replaced in the Last 10 Years On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was born. It had a unique feel to it that continues to permeate new iterations of the device. And despite a bumpy start, connectivity limitations, and battery issues, it was an instant hit that […]
Apple’s iPhone Turns 10; New Details Emerge About ‘Petya’ Data Wiper
Posted June 29th, 2017 at 2:35 pm (UTC-5)
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New Malware Targets Google Services; Pokemon GO Goes to Davos
Posted January 18th, 2017 at 1:18 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Cybercrime Gang Uses Google Services for Malware Command and Control An organized criminal group known as Carabank is using Google services and office documents to distribute malware to turn their victims’ computers into command and control devices. This in turn enables them to launch further attacks. The notorious group has been in […]
Goodbye, iPhone Headphone Jack; Ireland Backs Apple Against EU Fine
Posted September 8th, 2016 at 11:58 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Eulogy for the iPhone Headphone Jack Twitter burst into a flurry of activity Wednesday when Apple declared the death of the iPhone headphone jack at its iPhone 7 event in San Francisco. The tech giant replaced the jack with wireless earbuds, outfitted with their own communications chip. Apple described the move to […]
Black Hat; Facebook Personality Dabbling; iPhone Fakes
Posted August 6th, 2015 at 3:49 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Black Hat Keynote Speaker: Dream of Internet Freedom Is Dying As the annual Black Hat security conference kicked off in Las Vegas, Jennifer Granick, Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, warned that overregulation, censorship and bad laws are killing the dream of a free and open […]
Cuba Expands Wi-Fi; WeChat; iPhone OS X Flaw; Ello Goes Mobile
Posted June 18th, 2015 at 3:32 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Cuba Says It is Expanding Wi-Fi Access, Making it Cheaper Cuba’s government announced Thursday that it is expanding Wi-Fi access in state-run Internet centers and slashing hourly online costs by more than half. Cuba’s state communications company said 35 computer centers around the country will have Wi-Fi access, beginning in July. WeChat […]
Printed Prosthetics; Green Chips; iPhone Blues; IoT; Instagram
Posted May 27th, 2015 at 3:30 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Google Pledges $20 Million to Give 3-D Prosthetics a Helping Hand The Director of Google’s non-profit Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller, announced the launch of the Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities project in a blog post, with $20 million in funding. The project is intended to support people with disabilities and push the development of […]
Tech Sightings, July 17, 2014
Posted July 17th, 2014 at 2:03 pm (UTC-5)
Africa’s Inventors Struggle to Protect Patents Hampered by Africa’s long, expensive patent registration process and weak court system, many inventors are working covertly to protect their ideas from copycats. Some Universities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer Science U.S. universities that have seen women making a comeback in the fields of science and technology […]
Tech Sightings, January 14, 2014
Posted January 14th, 2014 at 2:26 pm (UTC-5)
A Thousand of These Tiny Windmills Might Power Your Phone A windmill less than two millimeters across could recharge your cell phone battery, researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington hope. China Video Sites Confident Public Will Pay for Content With piracy rampant and licensed content free online due to Hollywood and site operator […]