Watch out: Tattoos are about to get smart
Tattoos are about to get smart and we aren’t talking just fashionable. It’s possible now for people to design, print, and stick on tattoos with computing…
Category: Technology
Smoke measuring apps gain popularity
With smoke blanketing areas of the west for weeks, apps that measure air quality are becoming more popular than weather apps, according to Claims Journal….
See through social engineering attacks
No one, not even the smartest person, is always immune from social engineering tactics. Hackers have proved it thousands of times, including in the recent…
At delivery stations, phones in trees suggest secret technology
Phones dangle from trees outside Amazon and Whole Foods delivery stations, but not as some kind of high-tech prank. It’s about work. The phones are key to…
Twitter hack highlights underground trade in handles
In mid-July, hackers rocked the internet by taking over accounts of high-profile Twitter figures and using the accounts for a bitcoin scam, among other…
Hack reveals meddling could influence election results
A handful of attackers in mid-July managed to get control of VIP accounts of politicians in a bitcoin scam. But, what if the hackers, instead asking for…
Goodbye Segway: We hardly knew you
Segway stopped making its Human Transporter in July. The company ended up selling just 150,000 of the scooters, mainly to warehouses, police departments,…
Quote: The origin of Twitter
The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what…
Smart phone technology changes protesting, policing, more
In one town, one teenager messaged a friend that two boys were going to have a fight. In 15 minutes, one hundred teenagers drove to the address. Imagine…
What happens when critical cell networks fail?
On June 22, with most of the nation quarantined and watching anxiously as demonstrations troubled the cities, one circuit in the Southwest failed. That…