Book Review ‘Creativity’ engages
“Creativity, Inc.,” by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace achieves something that many business books strive for, but that few achieve. It tells an engaging story…
Author: The Smart Reader Staff
Briefs and quick reads selected and edited by The Smart Reader's editorial team.
Smartphones might end the checkout cha-cha
The checkout counter cha-cha: Swipe the card, step back, turn around, insert in chip reader, tap toe for 10 minutes while the card reader works. Okay,…
HummingBad: A nosey, greedy thief
About 10 million Android phones throughout the world have the HummingBad blues, a malicious app that collects our personal information and clicks on ads….
A hack with a view
NASA’S Kepler Twitter account (@NASAkepler) typically tweets artsy pictures of space discoveries and planets. In early July, one tweet was might exotic. A…
Phising site tactic
Watch for scam sites by looking at the domain (paypal.com is a domain), not just the design. Design can be mimicked. Addresses can’t. It is not paypal, if…
Shoppers trade carts for phones
Online shoppers are leading a retail revolution, says United Parcel Service. UPS’s Pulse of the Online Shopper Survey found that, for the first time in…
Book Review: Don’t ignore that man behind the curtain
The guy behind the curtain is the wizard indeed, but he doesn’t seem to be a firebreathing monster. Charles Koch, the leader of one of America’s most…
Virtual Assistant software aims to make work smoother
Smartphone helpers like Siri and Cortana have already streamlined travel, appointments, news, and other information. Now a new line of virtual assistant…
Artificial Intelligence grows up, with some bumps along the way
Suppose you let your toddler hang around a bunch of Internet trolls and told the trolls to teach the baby to talk. Imagine what they would teach it. That…
Pings: Passthought, gaming device, tech giants
Hum a few bars and I’ll fake it You think, therefore, you are who you are. Researchers aim to prove that. At the University of California, Berkeley,…