Jan 27 Apple just had the most profitable quarter of any company in history By Travis Daub After a rocky day in the markets, Apple computer began their quarterly earnings call and announced historically high numbers. Continue reading
Jan 27 New ‘smart’ keyboard detects typist By Ruth Tam A 'smart' keyboard could trigger a wireless alarm if anyone but the programmed user even taps on it. Continue reading
Oct 23 New computer chip ‘recipe’ makes electronics greener, cheaper, faster By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy The computer chip is getting a makeover from the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry at Oregon State University, making it leaner, faster and greener. Continue reading
Aug 01 The dangers that lurk within USB devices By Ariel Min USB devices, commonly used to copy, store and share data, have also been known as a prime place to carry malware, or malicious software, from one computer to another. But that’s not the end of the story: researchers argue that… Continue reading
Jun 17 Nobel Prize-winning prototype microchip arrives in New York for auction By Justin Scuiletti A piece of computing history has arrived in New York, and is due to go up for auction on Thursday. Continue reading
May 05 Your next mixtape could hold more songs than tens of thousands of iPods combined By Justin Scuiletti Sony debuted a new tape format Sunday at the International Magnetics Conference in Dresden, Germany that can hold 148 gigabytes of data per square inch; shattering a previous magnetic tape record of 29.5 gigabytes. If packed into a… Continue reading
Mar 04 Watch ‘Hidden Genius’ helps disadvantaged teens learn code of the tech industry By PBS News Hour In Oakland, not far from Silicon Valley, a small group of teenagers are glued to their computer screens, learning a new language. The Hidden Genius Project is a small non-profit that’s working to teach computer coding to young African-American men… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch Will Mt. Gox’s missing money prompt regulation on Bitcoin? By PBS News Hour Mt. Gox, an early player in the virtual currency Bitcoins, became a major online exchange until the disappearance of a significant sum and the subsequent bankruptcy of the company. Kashmir Hill of Forbes joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the potential… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch Major Bitcoin exchange files for bankruptcy, loses $425 million in virtual currency By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 26 Watch Secret weapon against hacking: College students Training the next generation of cybersecurity experts to fight off the bad guys. Continue watching