Nov 05 Let your phone be your tour guide at the World War II Memorial Screenshot of the Android version of the WWII Memorial App. Getting a tour at Washington, D.C.'s World War II Memorial will now be as easy as downloading an app to your smartphone. The new, succinctly-named "World… Continue reading
Oct 29 Data shows self-driving Google cars safer than its human-operated counterpart Photo by Flickr User Stanford Center for Internet and Society Google's autonomous-car project collected data from self-driving Prius and Lexus cars over hundreds of thousands of miles on public roads, which they say reveals the self-driving… Continue reading
Oct 28 World's first bitcoin ATM set to open Tuesday The entrance to a downtown Vancouver coffee shop will be the site for the world's first bitcoin ATM, according to tech website Wired. A Nevada company called Robocoin constructed the machine -- scheduled to go live Tuesday -- to… Continue reading
Oct 26 Meet the student hackers behind the 'Plaid Parliament of Pwning' By Travis Daub Earlier this year, the "Plaid Parliament of Pwning" team held a hacking contest for high school students called "Toaster Wars." Consider a phone charger that not only charges your smartphone, but also scans any Android device for malware, viruses and… Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch Secret weapon against hacking: College students Training the next generation of cybersecurity experts to fight off the bad guys. Continue watching
Oct 21 Protecting the world's monuments from the Taliban, nature by creating digital back-ups Digital rendering of Egypt's Osirid Pillars by CyArk. LONDON (AP) -- We all know to back up our files and photos, but what about our castles and churches? A nonprofit named CyArk has created digital copies of… Continue reading
Oct 19 Watch Chilecon Valley: Entrepreneurs very welcome Chile is welcoming entrepreneurs -- aiming to be the high-tech hub of South America. Continue watching
Oct 19 Watch Tight immigration rules divert high tech brains from Seattle to Santiago While U.S. immigration policy makes it difficult for immigrant entrepreneurs to get visas to set up shop in the United States, Chile is welcoming them with open arms. Through an initiative called Start-Up Chile, the country is aiming to be… Continue watching
Oct 18 In China, gadgets push manual skills aside Photo by Flickr user nehuenmingote Have you ever forgotten how to tell time on a traditional clock because you're used to reading it digitally on your phone? Well, you aren't the only one feeling the mental drag… Continue reading
Oct 18 Chilecon Valley: Entrepreneurs very welcome EmbedVideo(7737, 514, 320); While United States immigration policy makes it difficult for immigrant entrepreneurs to get visas to set up shop in the United States, Chile is welcoming them with open arms. Through an initiative called Start-Up… Continue reading