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An ambitious and plucky startup registered in Mountain View, California, called Knightscope is building automated security robots to “build safer, engaged communities while significantly reducing costs and reducing crime.” Launched on Seed Invest, the equity crowdfunding platform, the company’s pitch recently shows an “indicated interest” of nearly $48.5 million as part of what the company is…
The fight to become the top cloud services provider just got much hotter, with Oracle jumping into the fray with both feet. It wasn’t that Oracle wasn’t there in the cloud race and suddenly decided this was what they wanted. After denouncing cloud computing in not-so-glowing terms back in 2008, Oracle eventually realised the error…
Microsoft Office came into existence nearly 25 years ago, at a time when not many people in the world even had a computer in their homes. Since then the lead application of Microsoft’s Office Productivity suite has undergone many iterations to become a huge asset to Microsoft’s arsenal. The Microsoft you see today is not…
A recent poll by Israel’s second largest public security company, called CyberArk’s Global Advanced Threat Landscape Survey 2016, shows that poor cybersecurity habits are prevalent all over the world. The survey involved 750 IT and IT security professionals who were also the decision-makers for their organizations. The world’s biggest known cybersecurity breach happened in 2014, but…
More than 400 million people have gotten the Windows 10 upgrade on their devices since its official release, but a lot of businesses are still hesitant about the move from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Since this represents one of the highest earning segments for Windows licensing for Microsoft, the company has decided to help businesses move seamlessly into…
The idyllic city of Nebbenes, Norway, was recently the location of a major global event: the inauguration of the world’s largest fast-charging station for electric vehicles, which includes 20 stalls from Palo Alto-based Tesla Motors. Built by Tesla in collaboration with a local organization called Fortum Charge & Drive, the 28-car-capacity supercharging station features 20 x…
In 2014, Stanford University put together a panel of brilliant minds from academia and industry to do a One Hundred Year Study on the progress of artificial intelligence and how it will impact our daily lives. They have now reported their findings over the past two years. The report is bone dry and boring as heck,…
Almost two years ago today, on August 31, 2014, the world was shocked by celebrity photos that were allegedly hacked from Apple’s cloud service, iCloud. The controversy rocked the media world because of its scale and the rapidity with with “the Fappening” was released to the public. Nearly 500 photos of mostly female celebrities were…
In an earlier article I wrote about online security and privacy, I gave an overview of the types of tracking on the internet and how to browse the web anonymously. We had such an overwhelming response to that piece (linked here below) that we felt that a follow-on article was required to help people understand the…
Three years ago NASA funded a research program aimed at finding a tasty alternative to the problem of hungry astronauts who spend months in space with only boring pre-packaged meals to eat. The goal of the program was to create food using a 3D printer that could be used on a subsequent Mission to Mars. And you…
One of the best gifts the Internet has given us is the ability and the freedom to connect to anyone in the world from anywhere in the world and find out anything about anything. But along with that freedom comes the problem of how to keep yourself safe when you’re on the web. Do you know…
Mobile theft is one of the most prevalent problems in modern society. If you’ve ever had your iPhone stolen, you’ll know the stress of wondering what will happen to your personal data. Well, Apple may soon have a solution to that problem because nobody is safe from smartphone theft. According to a recent patent filing…
If you’ve ever been the victim of online abuse – also known as cyberbullying – you’re well aware of the embarrassment and psychological stress it can cause. Cyberbullying is one of the most prevalent cybercrimes in the world today, but few people are conscious of how widespread it actually is. How Bad is the Cyberbullying…
In what is increasingly becoming the artificial intelligence party of the century, Amazon and a CIA-backed company called CosmiQ Works will partner to create a massive database of Earth surface imagery taken from satellites in orbit. The database is being called SpaceNet, and will actually be available to the public, which I suspect will be meaningless truckloads of information…
25 years ago on August 23, the World Wide Web was born with the first published page that could be accessed online. Although the Internet is technically different from the World Wide Web, to most people it is synonymous. The “web” is actually built on top of the Internet, which is merely a network of nodes…
