March 23, 2017 Tractor Hack: Farmers are harnessing hacked software for John Deere repairs Farming was simple once. It was hard, backbreaking work, but it followed a basic formula: You plant it, you grow it, you harvest it.
March 15, 2017 Amazon's Alexa can clean your house for you “Hey Alexa -- clean my house for me.” Alexa, Amazon’s all-knowing and doing voice assistant can now help you vacuum, thanks to a partnership between the Seattle-based retail giant and iRobot, a maker of consumer robots.
March 14, 2017 Apple's iOS 10.3 update could result in you losing all of your data if you do not perform a back up If you have sentimental attachment to the data on your iPhone, you will want to perform a backup before upgrading to Apple’s latest iOS update later this month.
March 9, 2017 More people have Netflix than a DVR That's a huge change from 2011, when 44 percent of households had a DVR and just 28 percent had Netflix, according to a report conducted by Leichtman Research Group (LRG).
January 13, 2017 ACLU wants new rules for tech reportedly used to catch Boston bombers The American Civil Liberties Union is calling for new rules to govern a technology that helped catch the Boston bombers and the man responsible for the attempted 2010 car bombing in Times Square.
January 13, 2017 An end to computer viruses? Start-up claims it can stop malware An Israeli start-up claims their new software will put an end to all viruses and malware by anticipating attacks and preventing them before they start.
January 11, 2017 New $27 million fund aims to save humanity from destructive AI The fund aims to bring together diverse experts to turn an analytical eye to the development of AI.
January 5, 2017 Nonprofit taps tech innovators to help disabled people Riding a bike. Taking a coffee break. Opening a tube of paint. They may sound like simple actions, but for people with disabilities, these activities can pose challenges that make it hard to live independently.
December 14, 2016 Is a costly UN computer mega-project turning around? The biggest high-tech fiasco in United Nations history -- the creation of a computerized management system known as Umoja -- is likely to cost another $104 million beyond its current $439 million budget before it is finished at the end of 2018 -- a full six years beyond its original completion date, according to the most recent estimates.
November 15, 2016 US Navy denies software piracy in $596 million lawsuit In response to a $596 million lawsuit, the U.S. Navy has denied that it pirated copies of a tech company’s virtual reality software on more than 558,000 computers.
