October 22, 2015 Yahoo expands security measures, promising to encrypt all personal data by end of March Yahoo is expanding its efforts to protect its users' online activities from prying eyes by encrypting all the communications and other information flowing into the Internet company's data centers around the world.
October 22, 2015 Robots trained to become less deadly Before humans can trust robots to work as grocery store cashiers, these machines will have to prove they can do certain things like not squishing our perfect heirloom tomatoes or stabbing us with new kitchen knives at the checkout line.
October 22, 2015 Dell laptop model smells like cat urine, some users complain Some owners of a certain Dell laptop model are complaining about an odor that’s being likened to cat urine, according to a report in The Guardian.
October 22, 2015 My so-called robo-life: Robopresence makes debut at tech conference I bumped into someone recently. Admittedly, I wasn’t watching where I was going -- in fact, I was heading for the food table. The person who brushed against me wasn’t paying attention, either. In fact, it wasn’t really a person at all. It was a robot.
October 22, 2015 Apple announces iPad Air—thinner, lighter and more powerful than ever Apple unveiled a new, thinner, lighter tablet called the iPad Air along with a slew of new Macs ahead of the holiday shopping season.
October 22, 2015 The Apple iPad Air: More speed, much less weight, few surprises There weren’t many unexpected hardware announcements today at Apple's media event, though we certainly weren’t disappointed.
October 22, 2015 Personalization is collapsing the Web We all like to feel as if we're being personally catered to, that someone understands and cares about our needs.
October 22, 2015 Digital natives: The most & least wired countries revealed While it may seem like young people are always using the Internet, it's perhaps surprising that only 30 percent of people ages 15 to 24 worldwide are "digital natives," meaning they've been active on the Internet for at least five years, new research shows.
October 22, 2015 Glitch-filled launch of ObamaCare site decried as 'train wreck' More than a week into the glitch-littered launch of the ObamaCare insurance "exchanges," critics are decrying the roll-out as a "train wreck" that should give everyone pause about requiring individuals to use the new system -- or obtain insurance elsewhere -- by early 2014.
October 22, 2015 The dark side of Apple’s iOS 7 There are some great use cases out there that really could make fantastic use of Apple’s new iBeacon feature, but there is also a darker side of iBeacons that could become a huge annoyance for iPhone owners and other iOS device users.
