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 […]
WoW for Ebola; Samsung’s TV Saga; Apple’s Labor Woes
Posted February 12th, 2015 at 2:21 pm (UTC-5)
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2015 Gadgets; Mind-Controlled Robots; FireChat
Posted December 31st, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Technology in 2015 – New Gadgets Coming Your Way Watch for improved mobile payments, connected cars, smarter everyday devices and better 3-D printing, among other technological wonders this coming year. The Halting Progress of Mind-Controlled Robot Tech It’s a work in progress, although some quadriplegics have already used their thoughts to operate […]
Privacy; North Korea; and the Spider Dress
Posted December 23rd, 2014 at 2:08 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Downing North Korea’s Internet Not Much of a Scalp North Korea lost its Internet connectivity for half a day Monday, though the reasons for the blackout remain unclear. But that is hardly a major loss for a country that barely has 1,000 Internet addresses, one Internet service provider and one connection to […]
Hacking Sony; Stephen Hawking; Browser Wars
Posted December 2nd, 2014 at 2:34 pm (UTC-5)
Today in Tech Sightings: How Intel Helped Stephen Hawking Communicate With the World Celebrated astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, Director of Research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology in Cambridge, suffers from a degenerative motor neuron disease that has made it impossible for him to communicate with the world without the aid of technology. Now, Intel has […]
Tech Sightings, September 2, 2014
Posted September 2nd, 2014 at 2:21 pm (UTC-5)
The Cult of Xiaomi Seeks World Domination Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi grabbed14% share of the smartphone market in the second quarter of this year, after outselling even Apple. And the events the company hosts to encourage and reward its fans are creating something of a rock concert feel that might make Xiaomi’s advance in the […]
Tech Sightings, February 11, 2014
Posted February 11th, 2014 at 4:17 pm (UTC-5)
Online Clues Located North Korea’s Missile-Launcher Factories It’s not really a spy job .A team of researchers using freely available open-source information have been able to pinpoint two North Korean factories where some of the country’s mobile missile launchers are assembled. Mobile World Children? Camp Brings Kids to MWC 2014 Forty kids between the ages […]
Tech Sightings, February 6, 2014
Posted February 6th, 2014 at 3:10 pm (UTC-5)
New lawsuit Against Bitcoin Miner Manufacturer Alleges Fraud, Negligence Butterfly Labs, a Bitcoin-related company, is facing its first civil lawsuit in the United States. More will will likely follow. Report: Nearly All Visitors to Sochi Winter Olympics Will Be Hacked The State Department has already cautioned that travelers should have no expectations of privacy in […]