Emerging Tech

Video: The Present and Future of Wearable Technology

Picture electronics for your every appendage and even adhering to your tissues as flexible patches.

Modernization

Why PC Manufacturers Have to Start Paying Attention to Microchip-Maker Qualcomm

The company, which makes chips for tablets and smartphones is looking to expand its market.

Modernization

'Mobile' Computing No Longer Exists

Industry developments are blurring computing lines.

Digital Government

The Real Data Center Revolution

Server farms as they now exist are not sustainable in an increasingly networked world.

Cybersecurity

The Biggest Cyberattack in the History of the Internet is Happening Right Now

The Spamhaus v. CyberBunker battle is raging now.

Emerging Tech

How the Internet Is Making Us Poor

The replacement of knowledge workers with software, a decades-old trend, is starting to show in economic data.

Emerging Tech

How Making Microchips 3D Could Unleash an Age of “Cognitive Computing”

Hector Ruiz has an idea he hopes to lead a transformation of our most basic ideas about what a microchip can be.

Modernization

The Future of Twitter Is Robots Tweeting at Each Other

Instead of being person to person, the social network has become a truly broadcast medium.

Emerging Tech

'Brainpainting' Offers Hope for Interacting with Computers by Thought Alone

These amplifiers for the human brain are designed to allow people with paralysis to interact with the world.

Cybersecurity

Syrian Electronic Army’s Twitter Hacking Campaign Racks Up Another Victory

Qatar Foundation’s Facebook and Twitter accounts are the newest frontier for the conflict.

Emerging Tech

31 Percent of Kenya’s GDP is Spent Through Mobile Phones

Mobile payment system M-Pesa has 19 million customers in the African nation.

Modernization

'Bring Your Own Bandwidth' Means a Future of Ultra-Cheap Calls

Republic Wireless is selling a phone that will carry out all of its functions over WiFi.

Emerging Tech

Access to broadband internet is the new access to ports, rail, and electricity

"State of the Internet" report says Korea leads in high-speed access worldwide.

Cybersecurity

U.S. government hacked into French presidential office, spied on senior officials, says a French news report

According to the French magazine l'Express, American officials gained almost unlimited access to computers of senior officials in the final days of the Sarkozy administration.

Modernization

Nine ways to make your cell phone last the whole storm even if the power goes out

Hurricane Sandy has begun hitting the east coast, but fortunately, cell phone access is available even when the power goes out.