Today’s Tech Sightings: Alibaba’s Jack Ma: AI Could Lead to 4-hour Workdays and World War III Adding his voice to a chorus of visionaries warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), Alibaba Founder and CEO Jack Ma told CNBC AI automation could allow people more free time, perhaps leading to four-day work weeks in […]
The Future, According to Jack Ma; Uber CEO Resigns
Posted June 21st, 2017 at 12:18 pm (UTC-4)
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Mobile Phishing’s New Tricks; Older Samsung Devices Left Vulnerable
Posted June 15th, 2017 at 12:32 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Login-stealing Phishing Sites Hide Their Evil With Lots of Hyphens in URL Malicious websites are using mobile-focused phishing attacks that are adding enough hyphens to their original domain names so that they are too long to be visible in the address bar. Researchers with security firm PhishLabs say the emerging trend is […]
Two-thirds of World Now on Mobile; US Election Hack Hit 39 States
Posted June 13th, 2017 at 12:46 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: 5 Billion People Now Have a Mobile Phone Connection Two-thirds of the world’s population is now connected on mobile phones, according to GSMA Intelligence, a research group operated by GSMA, which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. GSMA Intelligence’s real-time tracker shows just a bit over 5 billion mobile users globally […]
Emojis Tackle Language Disorders; Parsing Future Tech From Fiction
Posted April 25th, 2017 at 1:52 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Samsung Develops Emoji-based Chat App for Language Disorders More often than not, people use emojis for fun when they chat. But for those with language disorders like aphasia, which makes reading, writing and talking difficult, emojis might be just the thing to help facilitate communication. To address the gap, Samsung’s Italian subsidiary […]
Uber’s Harassment Reality Check; Slack Bug Puts User Accounts at Risk
Posted March 1st, 2017 at 12:56 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Uber Case Could Be Watershed for Women in Tech The recent allegations of Uber’s culture of sexism and sexual harassment have put the tech sector and its diversity problems in the spotlight – again. But writer Farhad Manjoo argues the Uber case feels like a watershed that could trigger innovation and new […]
Feb. 7 Is Safer Internet Day; Some iOS Apps Put User Data at Risk
Posted February 7th, 2017 at 11:48 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: On Safer Internet Day, Here’s How to Get Your Online Life Secured February 7, 2017 is Safer Internet Day, which shines a light on unhealthy online habits and promotes better privacy and safety practices. Your Google searches – and trips to various ad-funded websites – tip off advertising companies to all sorts […]
Asia Mobile Growth; Toshiba Crisis; Twitter, Digital Attack Map
Posted July 21st, 2015 at 3:50 pm (UTC-4)
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 […]
Japan’s Robot Hotel; Mobile Money; Street View Bangladesh
Posted February 5th, 2015 at 2:17 pm (UTC-4)
Can Mobile Banking Revolutionize the Lives of the Poor? Kenya’s mobile payment system, M-PESA, introduced in 2007, enriched the lives of Kenyans and gradually spread to other countries. M-PESA allows cellphone users to save and transfer money and use SMS to exchange funds over the network. But will mobile money actually transform the lives of […]
Tracking Santa; the Eyes Have It; Death of Voicemail?
Posted December 24th, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: It’s Christmas Eve and the Battle of NORAD vs. Google Santa Trackers Has Begun! Santa and his reindeer are traveling somewhere around the world; and Google is racing to track his every movement ahead of Microsoft and its North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) partner. You can find Google’s Santa Tracker here and […]
Privacy; North Korea; and the Spider Dress
Posted December 23rd, 2014 at 2:08 pm (UTC-4)
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 […]