Today’s Tech Sightings: Facebook Kicks Off F8 Developer Conference Amid Murder Controversy CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot to talk about at Tuesday’s F8 developer conference in San Jose, California. But his keynote speech comes at an inopportune time as the social media giant grapples with violent videos of murder, torture and rape. In the […]
Murder, Graphic Content Haunt Facebook; Android Pay, PayPal Team Up
Posted April 18th, 2017 at 11:54 am (UTC-5)
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Floppy Disks Control US Nukes; Microsoft Retracts Malware-like Ploys
Posted May 26th, 2016 at 12:15 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Floppy Disks Control US Nukes and Missiles? An IBM Series/1 computer introduced in 1976 controls some of the United States’ ballistic missiles and nuclear bombers, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The 40-year-old machine, which sends and receives emergency action alerts, still stores data on nearly-obsolete […]
Mayo Clinic Takes on VR Sickness; China Challenges Google’s AlphaGo
Posted March 31st, 2016 at 11:30 am (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Mayo Clinic Cure Said to Alleviate VR Motion Sickness Some, but not all virtual reality (VR) headgear cause wearers to experience nausea and motion sickness even with higher frame rates and lower latency. But according to Fast Company, the Mayo Clinic hospital has developed algorithms that can trick the VR user’s brain […]
Rise of Smartphones; Global Wi-Fi; Bitcoin; Apple; PayPal User Policy
Posted June 3rd, 2015 at 2:26 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: The Unstoppable Rise of the Smartphone A new mobility report from Ericsson said about 70 percent of the world’s population will be using smartphones by 2020. That means that 6.1 billion smartphones will be sold globally within five years. Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa accounted for the highest number of […]
Tech Sightings, September 24, 2014
Posted September 24th, 2014 at 2:08 pm (UTC-5)
Taiwan Probes Xiaomi on Cybersecurity Taiwanese authorities launched an investigation into whether China’s leading smartphone maker, Xiaomi, poses a cybersecurity risk. The probe started following reports that some of Xiaomi’s phones automatically send user data to its servers in mainland China. The results of the investigation will be released in three months. Facebook to Start […]