While the Justice Department wages a public fight with Apple over access to a locked iPhone, government officials are privately debating how to resolve a prolonged standoff with another tech... Read more
From performing surgery and flying planes to babysitting kids and driving cars, today’s robots can do it all. With chatbots such as Eugene Goostman recently being hailed as “passing” the Tur... Read more
In the near future, invisible health-tracking technology will replace wearables, like the Apple Watch, available now With the introduction of the Apple HealthKit late last month, the burgeon... Read more
One persistent criticism of the tech industry is that it no longer works on big ideas. For all of Silicon Valley’s talk of changing the world, critics say, Google and Facebook mainly hire ar... Read more
IPhone-connected hearing aids are just the beginning. Dick Loizeaux recently found himself meandering through a noisy New York nightclub. This was unusual; Mr. Loizeaux, a 65-year-old former... Read more
“We learned that in order to make programming of interest to young children, it has to be a tangible product” When former Google executive Vikas Gupta had a daughter two years ago, he... Read more
We’ve known for a while now that just about every company under the sun is making a smartwatch. Apple, Microsoft, Google, LG … you name the manufacturer, and it probably a wrist-... Read more
The office has the look and feel of an Internet start-up. The workers are young, the dress is casual and the computer of choice is an Apple notebook. They inhabit a single open room. The wal... Read more
Using a PIN to lock your Android phone will keep it safe from most people, but not from R2B2, a robot designed to brute-force its way through any four-digit code in less than a day. R2B2, th... Read more
“Learning and improving and continuous adaptation to a user’s needs will be central to bRight.” As I sit here tapping away at my keyboard, I’m flanked by a computer s... Read more
A stunning piece of wrist bling all rolled into one futuristic device. Many of the communication devices that attempt to make the jump from our hands to our wrists tend to follow the same fo... Read more
The big breakthrough was the iPad: a flat, thin, beautiful, nearly buttonless computer, all touch screen. But that was three years ago. Ever since then, Apple’s rivals have churned out iPad... Read more
The OrCam is a small camera linked to a very powerful wearable computer. It sees what you see and through your finger-pointing understands what information you seek, relaying auditory feedba... Read more
Bodelin Technologies has unveiled a new product that turns your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad into a fully functional microscope. The microscope itself has precision optical glass and supports... Read more
Following this week’s theme of bringing the online into reality, here’s a Kickstarter idea that’s too cute not to share. Hide & Seek is a UK-based game company – a bunc... Read more
