Gadget Ogling: Scooting Around, Scratching Wood, Knocking on Doors
Even for someone endlessly in awe of our ability to traverse continents in just a few hours, traveling is increasingly a chore. Anything I...
The Apple Watch Mystery Won't Be Solved March 9
The fog shrouding the Apple Watch won't be lifted on March 9 when Apple is widely expected to tell us more about its forthcoming relea...
DeepMind AI Exterminates Space Invaders, Pac-Man
Researchers at Google's DeepMind subsidiary in England have developed an artificial agent they call a "deep Q-network" that ...
Malicious Emailers Find Healthcare Firms Juicy Prey
Healthcare providers have garnered growing interest from hackers in recent months. More evidence of that trend appeared last week in a rep...
Pearl OS Could Be a Gem in the Making
If you favor the OS X environment, Pearl OS might be a Linux distro to feed your fancy. Pearl OS is a revival of the discontinued Pear OS ...
Volvo Talks Up Its Self-Driving Cars
Volvo last week revealed the latest developments in its Drive Me project, showing off a complete system that could make it possible to int...
Valve To Put Steam Behind VR Efforts With New Headset
Valve on Monday announced that it's getting into the virtual reality hardware business. In a terse tease posted to the Web, the compan...
Open Source vs. Proprietary Firms on the IoT Battleground
Technology wars are predictable. Every new wave of gadgetry brings a fight over who will be the next king of the software hill. The next b...
Google Puts Blogger Porn Under Wraps
Google will place a privacy curtain around sexually explicit images and video on its Blogger platform if users fail to remove the content ...
Pebble Makes Big Ripples on Kickstarter
The money is pouring into Pebble's Kickstarter campaign, launched Tuesday, for its new smartwatch, Pebble Time. Within hours, upwards ...
How Apple Will Sell a Watch That No One Really Needs
There has been a lot of discussion lately of where and how Apple will sell the Apple Watch -- through high-end luxury department stores in...
Citizenfour's Oscar Highlights National Divide Over Snowden
Citizenfour , a film documenting interviews director Laura Poitras conducted with whistle-blower Edward Snowden, won the Oscar for best do...
Government Spies Steal SIM Card Cryptokeys
The United States' National Security Agency and British spy agency GCHQ have hacked into the internal computer network of Gemalto, the...
The Apple/Tesla Dream Team
We've seen a lot of speculation this week on the Apple car -- everything from Apple building its own car from scratch to its buying or...
Gadget Ogling: Jewelry Gets Inky, Toys Get Brilliant, Remotes Get Beautiful
L!ber8's Tago Arc is aimed at the fashion conscious or those who like to use their jewelry to tell the world a little more about thems...
Google Rails Against Proposal to Give Feds Remote Hacking Authority
Google is fighting a proposed amendment to Rule 41 of the U.S. Criminal Code that might allow authorities to hack into computers abroad. T...
Video Game Preservation: An Impossible Dream?
Fuel Industries last year sought to find the long-rumored cache of buried E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video games, made for the Atari 2600...
Lenovo Rapped for Preinstalling Spyware
Lenovo on Thursday came under fire for preinstalling spyware on some of its laptops. The software, Superfish, uses the same techniques cyb...
Azure Machine Learning Aims to Convert Data to Information
Microsoft on Wednesday announced new data services running on its Azure cloud in what it has positioned as a bid to bring big data to the ...
Korora Comes Bursting With Extras
Korora, a Linux distro based on Fedora, the community version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, just keeps getting better. When I reviewed Koro...
Apple Awarded Patent for Hybrid VR Headset
Apple has been awarded a patent for a virtual reality headset that can use an iPhone or iPod as a display. The abstract describes a device...
Gadget Ogling: An On-the-Go Digital Safe, a Portable Power Plant and a Gimmicky Ghost Buster
Welcome to a new edition of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, your weekly guide to the best and worst of gadgets that have just rolled off the...
NSA Suspected of Spreading Super-Resistant Malware
Kaspersky Lab on Tuesday announced the discovery of what may be the most sophisticated malware ever. The malware's creators, whom Kasp...
Sony Gets Glassy-Eyed
Sony's SmartEyeglass Developer Edition SED-E1 will be available generally next month in the United States, the UK, Germany and Japan. ...
Encryption Can Create Stormy Weather in the Cloud
Encryption has received a lot of attention lately as a solution to the growing data-breach problem, but one of the hang-ups dogging the te...
Encryption Can Create Stormy Weather in the Cloud
Encryption has received a lot of attention lately as a solution to the growing data-breach problem, but one of the hang-ups dogging the te...
Is Paltrow More Qualified Than Mayer to Run Yahoo?
I recently revisited Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision not to hire Academy Award winner and successful lifestyle author and blogger G...
'Digital Dark Age' Imminent Warns 'Father of the Internet'
Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google, this week issued a stern warning at the annual meeting of the American...
Revived View-Master Is a Virtual Reality
Google and Mattel now are teaming up to revive and modernize the View-Master. Mattel on Friday announced a new version that works with Goo...
Why Tim Cook Would Build an Apple Car
The wildest tech rumor this week comes from little substance, but somehow manages to ignite the imagination: According to Business Insider...
Facebook Launches ThreatExchange to Stymie Cybercrime
Facebook this week announced ThreatExchange, an API-based platform for technology companies to share information on security threats. It h...
Facebook Lets Members Prepare for the Digital Beyond
Facebook on Thursday announced a new feature for members who want to plan for their passing into the digital beyond. Initially rolled out ...
Obama's Cyberthreat Intel Aggregator Plan Divides Security Experts
The Obama Administration on Tuesday announced plans to set up a national Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center to integrate all dat...
Samsung Smart TV Owners Fume Over Sneaky Pop-Up Ads
Samsung Smart TV owners, already shaken by news earlier this week that their TVs can transmit voice commands and other private data to thi...
Box to Let Enterprises Bring Their Own Keys to the Cloud
Box is working with Amazon Web Services and Gemalto to bring to market the solution, called "Box Enterprise Key Management," and...
Bug Bounties Entice Researchers to Don White Hats
Bug bounty programs are used by individual software makers to improve the quality of their products, but they can have incidental benefits...
Report: Connected Vehicles Vulnerable to Hack Attacks
Motorists in the United States are increasingly at risk of cyberattacks and violations of privacy, as more and more technology is added to...
Concerns Emerge About Samsung Smart TVs 'Bugging' Owners
Owners of Samsung smart TVs need to watch what they say if they've activated the voice recognition feature on these devices. The featu...
Dish Network Slings New TV Service
Dish Network on Monday officially launched Sling TV, its widely anticipated US$20 per month streaming service, and further announced that ...
IT Job Seekers Back in the Driver's Seat
Fast-paced growth in the IT industry and low unemployment rates for tech workers are making it difficult for corporate executives to find ...
In Search of the Perfect Windows 10 Hardware
I'm well into the user testing of the next generation of Microsoft's operating system and things are really looking up. Windows 10...
3D-Printed 'Urban Concept' Car Assembled by Singapore Students
Students at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University have built the island republic's first 3D-printed concept car. The NTU Ve...
First Ubuntu Smartphone to Arrive in Europe Next Week
The first smartphone to be powered by the open source Ubuntu operating system will arrive at retail in Europe beginning on Monday, Feb. 9....
Virtual Reality a Sports Training Game Changer
Quite a bit of buzz broke out recently in sports circles when a Stanford quarterback was caught on ESPN sporting an Oculus virtual reality...
Anthem Mega-Breach Jeopardizes 80 Million Consumers
Hackers broke into the databases of Anthem Inc., the second-largest health insurer in the U.S., and stole up to 80 million customers' ...
IoT Risky Business for Enterprise Networks
There were 9 billion Internet of Things (IoT) units installed at the end of 2013 by IDC's count, and its analysts expect the figure to...
HandBrake Video Transcoder Gets a Grip on Linux
Converting video files from a variety of media sources can be a huge chore. That task can be much more manageable with HandBrake, a GPL-li...
'Smart Spaces' Project Seeks to Light Up Networks
Dartmouth University researchers are shining a new light on using "smart spaces" in ambient room lighting to transmit both data ...
Infected Android Apps From Google Play Affect Millions
Millions of Android users have been hit by malware posing as games on Google Play, according to Avast security researcher Flip Chytry. The...
Is It Time to Trash Flash?
On Monday, Adobe Flash Player users were hit by a zero-day flaw for the third time in two weeks. The company issued a security advisory fo...
