Today’s Tech Sightings: How IBM Watson Will Change the Fight Against Cancer IBM has announced a new Watson Genomics initiative that will allow clinicians to use the supercomputer’s data-crunching capabilities to sequence the genomes of cancerous tumors and then access relevant medical and treatment data to make appropriate recommendations to their patients. IBM’s Watson is […]
Watson Joins Cancer Fight; Tech Diversity; Linux Malware, Patch Tuesday
Posted May 6th, 2015 at 2:04 pm (UTC-5)
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UAVs Aid Nepal; ‘Renaissance’ Games; Microsoft Embraces Android, iOS
Posted April 30th, 2015 at 2:39 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Drones Help Nepal Earthquake Relief Effort As the death toll from Nepal’s massive earthquake surpassed 5,000, experts from Ontario-based GlobalMedic are using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to map disaster areas. The survey helps provide a better picture of needs on the ground and identify flooded areas, blocked roads, damaged infrastructure and population movements. […]
Reaching Out to Nepal; Robots Rising; the Tweeting Pope; WordPress Woes
Posted April 28th, 2015 at 2:12 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Earthquake Rocks Internet in Nepal The devastating earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday claimed more than 4,000 lives and affected more than eight million people. It also took a toll on Internet connectivity. While international links survived, the same cannot be said for connectivity on the ground in areas where underground fiber […]
App for Ringing Ears; MusicGlove; Ethical Robots; Trust in Facebook?
Posted March 19th, 2015 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Musical Glove Helps Stroke Patients Use Their Hands Again Part of the problem of rehabilitating stroke victims is that many of them don’t keep up their physical therapy. In an effort to change the situation, Nizan Friedman, founder of Flint Rehabilitation Devices, has come up with a wearable device called MusicGlove […]
FREAK Bug, Smart Glasses Still Alive; Windows 10 Piracy; IoT Future
Posted March 18th, 2015 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Internet of Things: Sillier, Scarier and Coming Your Way Wearable, connected devices and “smart” everyday gadgets are slowly making their way into people’s homes, turning everything from the cellphone to the fridge to Barbie dolls into a connected, Internet of Things tech challenge. While using your cellphone to turn on or […]
Cuba’s First Free Wi-Fi; Printed Prosthetics; Steve Jobs Legacy?
Posted March 17th, 2015 at 2:26 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Non-Profit 3D-Prints $100 Arm for Boy in Sudan Back in 2013, California-based non-profit Not Impossible Labs built its own 3-D printer prosthetic lab in Sudan — the world’s first. Now, the group has printed a prosthetic arm for Daniel, a 14-year-old boy who lost both arms during a bombing attack. Contemporary […]
Mobile in 2015; Bionic Arms; Printed Leaves; Rise of China’s Brands
Posted February 25th, 2015 at 2:47 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Mind-Controlled Bionic Hands Are Medical First No, it’s not science fiction. There are already three men in the world today outfitted with bionic arms that they control with their minds. The patients, who suffered nerve damage in climbing and motorcycle accidents, had their hands amputated and replaced with robotic hands in a […]
Red Envelopes From China; Superfishy Lenovo; Sony; Bitcoin Auction
Posted February 19th, 2015 at 2:45 pm (UTC-5)
Chinese Usher in Lunar New Year on WeChat With a Billion Virtual Red Envelopes The annual tradition of gifting red envelopes with token money went online yesterday as the Chinese celebrated the new lunar year on the popular messaging app WeChat, also known as Weixin in China. Weixin users, said to number more than 400 million, […]
WoW for Ebola; Samsung’s TV Saga; Apple’s Labor Woes
Posted February 12th, 2015 at 2:21 pm (UTC-5)
WoW Players Raise Nearly $2 Million to Fight Ebola Blizzard’s World of Warcraft’s latest charity campaign has netted more than $1.9 million to help fight Ebola in Africa. The donations were raised through in-game purchases; and all proceeds were donated to the Red Cross. Microsoft Researchers Say Their Newest Deep Learning System Beats Humans An […]
White Space Gives Ghanaians Affordable Broadband Access
Posted February 6th, 2015 at 2:17 pm (UTC-5)
Broadband Internet access can be expensive, even prohibitive in some countries, if it’s even available at all. To remedy the situation, tech giant Microsoft, among others, has turned to unused, unlicensed spectrum on VHF and UHF bands, also known as White Spaces, to deliver affordable high-speed Internet connectivity in Ghana. The program provides students at […]