Tech is great, but don’t forget the people

This article was originally published by Jem McKenna-Percy on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. One way to enable evidence-based decision-making by cities…

Bug in Apple’s Find My Feature Could’ve Exposed Users’ Location Histories

Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed two distinct design and implementation flaws in Apple’s crowdsourced Bluetooth location tracking system that can lead to a location correlation attack and unauthorized access to the location history of the past seven days, thereby by deanonymizing users. The findings are a consequence of an exhaustive review undertaken by the Open…

February 2021 Guest Opinion Part 2: IT/OT Convergence & Its Impact on the Manufacturing Ecosystem

February 24, 2021 Paul Brager Jr, Director, Global OT Security Programs, Baker Hughes IT/OT convergence, as a business enablement strategy, has been in focus for some time, as organizations desire to leverage data from within their industrial spaces.  These use cases can be automation optimization, lean initiatives, data analytics and visualization, or any combination such…

Explaining athletics’ new performance-enhancing tech

In the 1960s, when traditional cinder athletics tracks were replaced by spongy, synthetic surfaces, endurance running experienced a revolution. Long-distance runners began clocking far faster times on the synthetic tracks, smashing multiple world records in the process. Today, another revolution is afoot: the development of the so-called “super shoe,” which is driving another spike of record…