When you miscommunicate in a personal, private relationship, you can get into an argument and an hour later find yourself apologizing, and being apologized to. In business, miscommunication doesn’t ever end in hugs and laughter – unless it’s a family business, it usually turns into disaster – especially when the misunderstandings aren’t just from a…
by Jonah Bennett Facebook’s co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer tweeted their worries Sunday evening that the election Nov. 8 could be disrupted by a major internet attack. Adam D’Angelo, former CTO of Facebook, tweeted out Sunday that there is a “Good chance of major internet attack Nov 8th. Many groups have the ability and incentive….
by Eric Lieberman People worried about their safety and privacy now have a new weapon for disabling drones — a small hardware module that can hijack the flying device. The piece of technology, called Icarus, can overtake the DSMx, the remote control system in many drones as well as other vehicles like planes, helicopters, cars, and boats, according to Ars Technica….
by Josh Guckert On Twitter Friday, Edward Snowden tweeted that 2016 may be the year for Americans to finally vote for a third party. He said this in light of the fact that The New York Times currently gives Hillary Clinton a 93% chance of winning the presidential election. It should not be surprising to many that…
by Chris White Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk accused the media of “killing people” for covering a string of wrecks and one death related to the company’s self-driving feature. “You need to think carefully about this,” Musk told a slew of reporters during phone conference Wednesday. “Because if, in writing some article that’s negative, you effectively dissuade…
by Eric Lieberman Website likes Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, and many others are not working Friday morning, allegedly because unknown hackers attacked the servers of Dyn, which is a major domain name system (DNS) host. The attack is believed to be a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. DNS is the technical network that converts website address names…
by Eric Lieberman Social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are being criticized for giving users’ personal information to a company that supplies data to law enforcement. The tech corporations provided access to people’s data (specifically location) to Geofeedia, which is a developer and purveyor of a social media monitoring product. Geofeedia markets it services to police departments…
by Micah J. Fleck Did you know that the U.S. has had exclusive oversight of the majority of URLs seen online? The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an independent organization, was scooped up by the feds shortly after its inception in 1998 in order to oversee and control such major online domains as .info…
by Eric Lieberman Apple got mixed reviews for ending the headphone jack in the new iPhone 7, but a new accessory is making the outlet accessible once again. A hardware developer based in Austin, Texas, created a case that has the traditional 3.5mm audio jack and can attach to the phone. The vast majority of people have…
by Ian Tartt Just as the car overtook the horse and buggy, so too will the self-driving car eventually overtake cars that require human drivers. Once self-driving cars become widely accepted, the ramifications will be enormous and almost entirely positive. The benefits will appeal to anyone concerned about safety, efficiency, and freedom. Safety Google is…