November 4, 2015 Twitter looks to add livestreaming after buying startup Periscope It looks as if Twitter is gearing up to bring a livestreaming option to its service after the company confirmed it’s bought startup Periscope.
November 4, 2015 New tech job titles you might need to learn for 2015 Your job title says a lot about what you do. Most of us work in well-established professions. We’re accountants, doctors, lawyers, real-estate agents, and journalists. You can read a name and title on a business card or on LinkedIn and easily grasp the role. Yet, in 2015, you might be surprised to come across a few unusual job titles. Could anyone have imagined there would be an Intelligent Textile Designer even a few years ago? Here are a few to track.
November 4, 2015 Sony hack draws NSA parallels With investigators probing the possibility that stolen passwords were used in the North Korean cyberattack that crippled Sony Pictures Entertainment, a security expert has drawn parallels with the NSA’s highly embarrassing 2013 data breach.
November 4, 2015 Microsoft to spill Windows 10 beans Jan. 21 Microsoft's September unveiling of Windows 10 was geared largely towards power users, but the company is finally ready to give consumers an idea of what to expect from the new operating system.
November 4, 2015 Report: Iranian threat to critical US infrastructure growing The U.S. public and private sectors are increasingly at risk of coordinated attacks by hackers from inside Iran, according to a new report.
November 4, 2015 Military taps avatars, video game tech, for virtual training Defense giant Raytheon is using motion capture and video game-based technology to develop sophisticated virtual simulators for the U.S. military.
November 4, 2015 How age-progression software helps find missing kids If you happen to be driving in St. Joseph, Minn., this weekend, look up at the billboards to see a picture of Jacob Wetterling. An image created last year shows how Wetterling, who went missing 25 years ago at age 11, might look today at age 36.
November 4, 2015 Microsoft expected to unveil Windows 8 updates at San Francisco conference Microsoft is following through on a promise to update its Windows 8 operating system on a regular basis to respond to consumers' complaints and other feedback.
November 4, 2015 Microsoft releases Windows 8.1, a year in the making, to address Windows 8 gripes Microsoft released its long-awaited Windows 8.1 upgrade as a free download Thursday. It addresses some of the gripes people have had with Windows 8, the dramatically different operating system t...
November 4, 2015 No battery required for this wireless device Sending texts after a phone’s battery dies sounds impossible, right? Soon it might not, thanks to a new technology that not only uses TV and Wi-Fi signals for device communication, it taps those signals as a power source. No batteries required.
