Business owners, pay attention. If you don’t step up your technology game, your employees might leave you. This is according to a new global report from Dell and Intel, entitled Future Workforce. Based on a poll of 4,000 full-time employees all over the world, it tried to understand how modern ... Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO— LinkedIn Corp. rolled out new technology and products Thursday aimed at keeping members on its network longer, a move that could help generate more data and make it more valuable to Microsoft Corp. LinkedIn, which agreed to sell itself for $26.2 billion to Microsoft in June, debuted training, ... Read More »
Britain is moving towards more active defence in cyberspace, the head of the UK’s new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said. Speaking in Washington, Ciaran Martin was giving his first public comments as the chief executive of the NCSC. The centre, which launches next month, will absorb existing roles ... Read More »
Internet kiosks around New York City are being updated to stop them being used “inappropriately”. Free web browsing on the 400 kiosks will be disabled to stop people viewing pornography sites and also to prevent individuals using them for too long. The change comes after several New Yorkers reported people ... Read More »
An autistic man suspected of hacking into US government computer systems is to be extradited from Britain to face trial, a court has ruled. Lauri Love, 31, who has Asperger’s syndrome, is accused of hacking into the FBI, the US central bank and the country’s missile defence agency. Mr Love, ... Read More »
Two men have been charged with offences under the Gambling Act in what is believed to be the first prosecution involving betting on video games. Dylan Rigby and Craig Douglas, who are both from Essex, are charged with promoting a lottery and advertising unlawful gambling. Mr Douglas is also charged ... Read More »
Tesla has “pushed the envelope” on safety, former business partner Mobileye has said. Its zeal to extend its Autopilot system had led Mobileye to stop working with Tesla, said the chairman of the computer vision company. Autopilot has been under scrutiny since a fatal crash in May caused by the ... Read More »
Uber is collecting street images for its own maps of the UK cities in which it operates, starting with London. Its mapping cars are being sent out on to the capital’s roads from today. The firm said while existing maps were “a good starting point” it hoped to be able ... Read More »
Uber is introducing its new fleet of “self-driving” cars today in Pittsburgh, ready to take riders wherever they need to go. The cars are equipped with level 3 autonomy — cars capable of accelerating, braking and steering under certain conditions but requiring human drivers poised to intervene if the technology ... Read More »
As Tesla founder Elon Musk promises to change the world, starting with giant battery factory in the Nevada desert, investors from Toronto to Tokyo are quietly developing the next-generation technologies that may actually get him there. Batteries, especially the lithium-ion variety used in mobile phones and electric cars, are likely to dominate ... Read More »
Former K-12 teacher Tim Green, Cal State Fullerton professor of elementary and bilingual education and an educational technology expert, is passionate about working with schools and districts on technology initiatives to keep young students safe online. Green, who has taught at CSUF since 1999, focuses his research on the integration ... Read More »
On September 8, 1966, NBC aired the first episode of a new TV series about a starship on a five year mission of space exploration. Today, Star Trek turns 50. The first episode told of an endangered shape-shifting, salt-sucking alien posing as a human woman to lure prey to its ... Read More »
