The hidden body signals that could change your behaviour
Source: BBC By Tiffanie Wen 10 February 2017 “Gently close your eyes. Listen to the soundscape you’re now in. As you focus your awareness on different parts of your body, […]
What if the internet stopped working for a day?
Source: BBC By Rachel Nuwer 7 February 2017 Jeff Hancock likes to give his Stanford University students weekend assignments that let them experience concepts discussed in class for themselves. Before […]
DNA-testing smartphone aims to tackle drugs resistance
Source: BBC By Leo Kelion Technology desk editor Scientists have built a DNA-analysing smartphone attachment that is a fraction of the cost of lab-based kit. The creators of the phone-powered […]
Can your voice reveal whether you have an illness?
Source: BBC By Adi Gaskell Technology of Business reporter Our voices are amazing things. We can use them to sing, shout and whisper sweet nothings. We can use them to […]
The next best thing to teleportation
Source: BBC By Douglas Heaven 13 January 2017 Your book talks about the new globalisation. What’s new? Profile: Richard Baldwin Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate […]
Google Wants Driverless Cars, but Do We?
Source: The New York Times Love was in the air at President-elect Donald J. Trump’s summit meeting last week with tech executives. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, was really feeling it, […]
If You’re Catholic And You’ve Sinned, There’s An App For That
Source: NPR A Scottish archbishop designed the app. It helps you find the closest spot to go to confession and Mass. The head of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communication called the app “imaginative.” DAVID GREENE, HOST: Good morning. I’m David Greene. If you are Catholic and have sinned, well, there’s […]
Out Of Memory Error
Source: Tedium By Ernie Smith Computers often seem like they’re above the supply chain. Putting aside hot devices like the latest iPhone and the different variants of the Microsoft Surface, it’s generally easy to get a computer of some kind that will allow you to do all sorts of interesting […]
Google’s New Feature May Drive Customers Away And Other Small Business Tech News This Week
Source: Forbes BY Gene Marks CONTRIBUTOR I write about technology developments for small business owners. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Google’s new feature may […]
Jaguar Land Rover wants to build electric cars in Britain
Source: Economic Times LONDON: Britain’s biggest carmarker Jaguar Land Rover said it wants to build electric cars in Britain in what would be a further boost to the UK automotive […]
Stunned tech sector ponders future under Donald Trump
Source: Economic Times WASHINGTON: After disbelief, anger and grief, the US tech sector is looking to come to grips with the presidency of a man described by many of its […]
iPhone Call Logs Easy Pickings on iCloud, Says Russian Security Firm
Source: Tech News World By Peter Suciu Russian digital forensics firm ElcomSoft on Thursday reported that Apple automatically uploads iPhone call logs to iCloud remote servers, and that users have […]
TO KEEP THE CRANBERRY INDUSTRY IN ITS BIRTHPLACE, A FARM TURNS TO DRONES, DATA, AND AUTOMATION
Source: The verge By Andrew Liptak Keith Mann faces the same problem each year: frost. The icy condensation is detrimental to his crop in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the […]
Toyota’s battery ‘breakthrough’ can lead to more range, longer life
Source: Cnet.com By Andrew Krok Toyota’s battery ‘breakthrough’ can lead to more range, longer life 5 Enlarge ImageThe closest thing Toyota has to an EV is the 2017 Prius Prime plug-in hybrid. I don’t count the Mirai since it’s impossible to own in much of the world. Photo by Toyota […]
Samsung buys connected car firm Harman for $8bn in cash
Source: BBC Samsung Electronics is buying automotive electronics-maker Harman International Industries for $8bn (£6.4bn), as it makes a big push into connected car technologies. Internet-connected cars will improve in-car entertainment, and be able to help with crash alerts and diagnosing engine problems. It will also be key for driverless technology. […]
Would you travel 700mph in a tube
Source: BBC By Bryan Lufkin 10 November 2016 In the deserts of the United Arab Emirates, one of the most futuristic, fantastical technologies could find footing at last. Hyperloop, the […]
How Microsoft Wants to Change the Way You Work
Source: Time BY Lisa Eadicicco Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a Slack competitor designed to help workers collaborate on projects — and to fill a hole in its Office suite Microsoft’s Office […]
How We’re Endangering our Kids’ Imaginations
Source: Time By Melissa Bernstein Melissa Bernstein is a co-founder of Melissa & Doug and is leading a movement to Take Back Childhood I refuse to sit back and watch this […]
How to Understand Today’s Internet Outage in 4 Words
Source: Time By Alex Fitzpatrick A massive DDoS attack against a major DNS service likely using a botnet of IoT devices resulted in Internet issues across the eastern United States Friday, making it hard for many users to access their favorite sites. Phew. That’s a lot of acronyms. To better understand what’s […]
‘Smart’ home devices used as weapons in website attack
Source: BBC Twitter, Spotify, and Reddit were among the sites taken offline on Friday. Each uses a company called Dyn, which was the target of the attack, to direct users […]