Taiwan held its 35th annual Computex trade show this week, and the event hasn’t aged well. There was little news to get excited about, the crowds were thinner, and there were no products on the show floor that generated the buzz seen in years past. To be sure, Computex has …
POMONA, Calif. – People cheered and clapped, yelled support and literally held their breath as the two-legged, humanoid robot from Team IHMC drove a car, drilled a hole in a wall and turned a valve. Then as the robot, nearly at the finish line, tried to step off a pile …
Because of slack buyer interest and other obstacles facing mobile payments in the U.S., Apple and other companies must inject new features and inducements to boost adoption. Apple is expected to announce at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which starts Monday, new technology to combine customer rewards with its existing …
Microsoft is now giving people a chance to settle arguments about whether they have a doppelganger once and for all with a new website called “Twins or Not.” The service, launched Friday, lets people upload a pair of photos to the web and get back a similarity score that ranges …
Facing life in prison, Ross Ulbricht is appealing his seven convictions for operating Silk Road, the illegal drugs online marketplace. Ulbricht’s lawyer, Joshua Dratel, has not decided on what issues he will base the appeal, according to Dratel’s office. Last week, Judge Katherine Forrest, who oversaw the jury case at …
With the upcoming release of Intel’s Skylake chips, there’s a lot to look forward to, including faster computers, fewer ports and wireless charging. At Computex in Taipei this week Intel shed more light on the new chip technology, a much hyped successor to Intel’s family of Broadwell family of chips. …
After the U.S. Congress approved what critics have called modest limits on the National Security Agency’s collection of domestic telephone records, many lawmakers may be reluctant to further change the government’s surveillance programs. The Senate this week passed the USA Freedom Act, which aims to end the NSA’s mass collection …
We’re now just a few days away from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. So as usual, rumor-mongering is reaching fever-pitch. WWDC 2015 seems set to be a riot of color, including the iOS 9 release, Apple’s new music streaming service, some new Watch stuff, and much, much more. Here comes Tim …
My company, CrowdFlower, recently conducted a survey of data scientists. One of the things we asked was what they spend their time working on and what they like and don’t like doing. Incredibly, cleaning and wrangling data, the thing they dislike the most, is the thing they spend the most …
Skype is making it easier for users to ditch their desktop software, and use the Skype for Web beta instead. Skype for Web, which launched as a closed beta last fall, is now available as an open beta to all U.S. and U.K. users. It’s similar to the desktop version, …
At the end of May, telecom giant Ericsson announced it had begun testing 5G networks in Stockholm, Sweden and Plano, Texas. To be precise, it is running tests for both 5G mobile devices and 5G radio base stations — the former from a minivan that can accommodate the test equipment. …
The Moto 360 versus the Apple Watch Smartwatches are all the rage these days, but what happens when you put the Moto 360 head to head against the Apple Watch? Well a writer at Tech Republic did just that and came away with some interesting insights as to the pluses …
The next step in mobile marketing will involve IT starting to leverage all — or at least most — of the datapoints mobile already collects and making use of that integrated data. Priceline Consider navigation systems and meaningful restaurant recommendations. To a marketer, a recommendation’s value is derived from how …
The crowdfunded Tado Smart AC Control (formerly Tado Cooling) was supposed to arrive in August 2014, so today’s launch marks the end of a long stretch of frustration for its more than 1600 Kickstarter backers. It also marks the beginning of a new phase for Tado, the German company best …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has named Daniel R. Gregus as the Associate Director for the broker-dealer examination program in its Chicago Regional Office. Mr. Gregus joined the SEC’s broker-dealer examination program in Chicago in February 2007 and has been its acting Associate Director since …
It was a textbook – and criminal – software as a service: Grant access to a software kit that makes it easy to lock up the hard drives on victims’ PCs, then skim 20% of the take from those who actually use the kit to extort payments. The scheme experienced …
Payday didn’t go as planned on January 2, 2014, for some Boston University employees. On that day, about a dozen faculty members discovered their paychecks hadn’t been deposited into their bank accounts. Thieves had changed the victims’ direct deposit information and rerouted their pay. BU’s IT security team traced the …
Microsoft is looking to help developers extend Visual Studio with the release of Project System Extensibility Preview. Developers can define new project types, write extensions to customize the user experience, or add features with little coding, Andrew Arnott, principal engineer for Visual Studio, said in a blog post this week. …
A recent Linux Foundation survey revealed that more than 9 in 10 hiring managers are planning to bring Linux talent on board this year, and 50 percent report they will hire more Linux professionals than in 2014. All of this means that we need bright, talented developers to meet this …
Does a data breach cost an average of 58 cents a record — or $154? That’s a significant difference for companies preparing incident response plans, as well as for insurance companies, regulators, auditors and others looking to ensure that companies are adequately prepared or covered for such an event. Ponemon …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Computer Sciences Corporation and former executives with manipulating financial results and concealing significant problems about the company’s largest and most high-profile contract. The SEC additionally charged former finance executives involved with CSC’s international businesses for ignoring basic accounting standards to increase reported profits. …
Корпорация Google представила собственный платежный сервис Android Pay, через который владельцы кредитных, дебетовых и корпоративных карт MasterCard смогут использовать свои гаджеты на Android для повседневных покупок в магазинах и мобильных приложениях. Широкое распространение смартфонов меняет подход потребителей к оплате товаров. Недавний отчет Federal Reserve показал, что уже 39% пользуется платежами через мобильники или когда-либо оплачивали …
The European Union’s top court has ruled that documents containing details of trade negotiations can remain secret, a decision that comes as a blow to those seeking more transparency in the negotiation of the treaties that are increasingly affecting e-commerce, online privacy, Internet copyright and other uses of IT. The …
Happening Nanotechnology textiles that change color to reflect your moods; T-shirts with heart sensors designed to improve workouts; coats with built-in heating or cooling systems designed for wear in all seasons – sounds like sci-fi, right? It is, but these solutions already exist and now it seems Apple has plans …
Records on 4 million people stolen in huge government data breach In what may be one of the biggest data breaches ever affecting the U.S. government, hackers broke into the systems of the Office of Personnel Management and the records of approximately four million people have been stolen. Investigators suspect …
Google yesterday switched on a feature in the Chrome beta that it said would save notebook battery power by freezing some content rendered using Adobe’s Flash Player. The option, now turned on by default in the beta — one of three “channels” Chrome maintains — will be automatically enabled in …