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 […]
Black Hat; Facebook Personality Dabbling; iPhone Fakes
Posted August 6th, 2015 at 3:49 pm (UTC-5)
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Privacy; China’s Online Police; OS X; Android Fragmentation
Posted August 5th, 2015 at 3:48 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Online Is Poised to Spread Europe’s highest court’s ruled more than a year ago that search engines had to give Internet users the “right to be forgotten” to help safeguard privacy. But some privacy and free speech advocates expect the controversial “right to be forgotten” to expand beyond […]
3-D Printed Drug; Mac Thunderstrike 2; Windows 10 Privacy
Posted August 4th, 2015 at 3:17 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: FDA Approves First 3-D Printed Drug Increasingly, 3-D printing has been leaving its mark in the fields of prosthetics, industrial parts and other areas. Now, Aprecia Pharmaceuticals has announced that the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its new 3-D-printed drug, SPRITAM, for the treatment of epilepsy. The company said it is the […]
Facebook; Google Translate; Wearable Tech; Windows 10; e-Sports
Posted July 30th, 2015 at 1:09 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Half of the World’s Population Is on Facebook Facebook’s daily active users now average 968 million, an increase of 17 percent over last year. According to Facebook, up to 1.49 billion users – half of the world’s online population of three billion – accessed the social network by the end of the […]
Google Takes on Sri Lanka; Home Robots; Windows 10; Hammertoss
Posted July 29th, 2015 at 1:07 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Google’s Internet Balloons Will Provide Connectivity to All of Sri Lanka Google’s Project Loon and the government of Sri Lanka have just signed an agreement to provide connectivity to the entire country. The island’s IT Minister, Mangala Samaraweera, said the project — using helium balloons to provide Internet access — will connect […]
Lighting Rural Africa; AI; IoT; Windows 10; App Store Vulnerability
Posted July 28th, 2015 at 3:02 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: A Laptop-Sized Solar Panel Is Lighting Rural Africa M-Kopa, a Nairobi-based provider of solar-lighting systems, is making affordable solar panels to power homes that have no access to Kenya’s electrical grid. The panel is the size of a laptop, with a battery that generates about 8 watts of energy. Hawking, Musk, Wozniak Call […]
Three-D Printing; App Fraud; Asia Eyes US Gaming Market
Posted July 23rd, 2015 at 3:00 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: India Needs China’s 3-D Printing Construction Technology Now Building a house in India takes about six months, on average. But recently, a Chinese company put together a 3-D-printed house in a matter of three hours. Writer Abhimanyu Ghoshal argues that India could use this technology to pare down the time it needs […]
Bionic Eyes; Schooling Vietnam; Android Malware; Google Maps
Posted July 22nd, 2015 at 3:04 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: World First Bionic Eye Gives Hope to Millions A British pensioner suffering from macular degeneration has become the world’s first person to be fitted with a bionic eye. The ground-breaking operation gave Ray Flynn, an electronic implant that works with a camera attached to his glasses to send video feeds to healthy […]
Asia Mobile Growth; Toshiba Crisis; Twitter, Digital Attack Map
Posted July 21st, 2015 at 3:50 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: APAC to Reach Two Billion Unique Smartphone Users by 2019 A new Forrester report said the Asia-Pacific region will have two billion unique smartphone users by 2019, accounting for 83 percent of the total unique mobile subscriber base. The number of smartphones in the region passed one billion last year. Toshiba CEO […]