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Google’s Password-free Login; Improving Online Customer Reviews
Today’s Tech Sightings: Google Testing Password-free Login System A spokesperson confirmed Google is testing a new password-free way to sign into accounts. The new system lets you verify your identity...
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Facebook, India Battle Over Free Internet; China’s Tech Transformation
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – A staff member stands next to a display screen during a joint news conference by Reliance Communications and Facebook in Mumbai, India, Feb. 10, 2015. (Reuters) Battle...
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Toxic Web User Warnings; 2015 Technology in Review
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – Vietnamese Internet activist Nguyen Lan Thang looks at a Facebook page at a cafe in Hanoi, Nov. 27, 2013. (Reuters) Vietnam Warns of ‘Toxic’ Web Use Ahead of Party...
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Egypt Bans Facebook’s ‘Free Basics’; Twitter Under Fire for Diversity Pick
Today’s Tech Sightings: Motorists ride past a billboard displaying Facebook’s Free Basics initiative in Mumbai, India, Dec. 30, 2015. Egypt became the second country to temporarily ban the app on...
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LEGO Launches Robot-based Learning Kit; ‘That Dragon, Cancer’
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – A child grabs LEGO bricks at a Kindergarten in Hanau, Germany, July 16, 2013. (Reuters) LEGO Education Launches New Robot-based Learning System Forget the old way of...
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Windows 10 is Spying on You; Are Video Games Addictive?
Today’s Tech Sightings: A Microsoft delegate takes a picture during the launch of the Windows 10 operating system in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, July 29, 2015. (Reuters) Microsoft Shows off What It Knows...
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3-D-printing Damaged Heritage Sites; Scaling Mount Everest in VR
Today’s Tech Sightings: A May 17, 2015, file photo released by Syrian official news agency SANA shows a general view of the ancient Roman city of Palmyra, northeast of Damascus. Syrian activists say...
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Greece Tests Rescue Robots at Sea; Apple Pushes Board Diversity
Today’s Tech Sightings: A Syrian refugee holding a baby swims towards the Greek island of Lesbos, Sept. 12, 2015, after a boat crammed with dozens of migrants and refugees deflated and sank. (Reuters)...
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Android Malware Hijacks Bank Accounts; Facebook’s Dilemma in India
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – People visit an Android stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, March 4, 2015. (Reuters) Android Malware Steals Banking Passcodes, Hijacks Accounts...
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Americans Choose Privacy Over Savings; Here Comes Your New AI Doctor
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – Nest’s Learning Thermostat is shown at Nest Labs in Palo Alto, California, Sept. 10, 2015. The thermostat recognizes when no one is home and turns itself down. (AP) When...
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Twitter Outages; Worst Passwords of 2015
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – The Twitter logo is shown on smartphone in front of a displayed stock graph, April 29, 2015. Twitter Hit by Sporadic Outages in Many Parts of Globe Twitter said on...
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New Memory Chips Emulate Human Brain; Browsing the Ad-Blocked Web
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – DRAM memory chips are pictured in Taiwan. (Reuters) Memory That Learns Could Help Tomorrow’s Intelligent Computers Researchers at New Mexico-based start-up Knowm are...
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Encrypted Smartphone Sales Banned in California; iHeartRadio Reaches 80mil
FILE – An iPhone 6S Plus is seen at the Apple retail store in Palo Alto, California, September 25, 2015. Now California State Wants to Ban Sale of Encrypted Smartphones California’s assembly member Jim...
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Internet of Things Devices Still Not Secure; AI Pioneer Minsky Dies
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – Visitors at the SIdO Connected Business trade show, an event dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), look at displayed products, Lyon, France. (Reuters) Forrester:...
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iPhones Too Pricey for Poorer World; Malaysia Blocks ‘Medium’
Today’s Tech Sightings: A man checks his smartphone outside a store promoting the Apple iPhone products in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, Jan. 26, 2016. (Reuters) Tim Cook Basically Admits...
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North Korea Online Population: 0.03 Percent; Death of the Java Plug-in
Today’s Tech Sightings: A 2015 file photo from APTN shows a North Korean man using his smartphone to access the country’s online shopping service. (AP/APTN) There Are Just 7,000 Web Users in North...
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Amazon Takes on Math; Bitcoin’s Future Could Be in Developing World
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – A Newark Prep Charter School student listens to math teacher Faiza Sheikh give a lesson at the school in Newark, New Jersey. (Reuters) Think You Stink at Math? Amazon...
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Mobile Apps Challenge Open Web; The New Internet Digital Gap
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – An illustration in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina shows a 3-D plastic representation of the Facebook logo in front of the logos of various social networks and video...
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How Facebook Censors Some Posts; Alibaba’s Shopping Site Hacked
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – An internet user browses through the Vietnamese government’s new Facebook page in Hanoi, Dec. 30, 2015. (Reuters) Facebook Censorship Under the Microscope...
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USBs Fight N. Korea’s Media Ban; Facebook’s Dilemma in India
Today’s Tech Sightings: FILE – A notification saying, “Warning! You can’t connect to this website because it’s in blacklist site” is seen on both a computer screen and on a smartphone screen in...
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