We absorb new information. We push to advance our careers. We strive to store every useful detail we can jam into our overstuffed brains. But as technology and our frantic world rev up the pace of learning and personal growth, it’s easy to overlook our physical health and mental wellness. Some of the most brilliant…
Reverse engineering the Toshiba FlashAir SD storage card allowed a researcher to execute remote code – and could’ve allowed him to add other malicious or practical features.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
In August 2017, Icelandic online retailer Aha partnered with Israeli startup Flytrex to ferry packages from one side of Reykjavik to the other as part of a drone delivery trial. One year on, Aha and Flytrex have announced their intention to expand the service from a single flight route to 13, offering regular deliveries to…
Let’s get the fish in the barrel out of the way. Voatz are a tech startup whose bright idea was to disrupt democracy by having people vote on their phone, and store the votes on, you guessed it, a blockchain. Does this sound like a bad idea? Welp. It turned out that they seemed awfully…
This time last year, I visited a bustling cafe in downtown Salt Lake City. I had never been there before, so I decided to go all out — breakfast and a cinnamon roll— Carb City. After finishing my meal, I went to pay my bill, but there was a problem: I couldn’t get my server’s attention. After…
LAS VEGAS – In recent years there has been more attention paid to the security of medical devices; however, there has been little security research done on the unique protocols used by these devices. Many of the insulin pumps, heart monitors and other gadgets found in hospital rooms use aging protocol to communicate with nurses’…
Anil Gandharve, VP and head of Retail, CPG and Manufacturing at Mindtree, discusses why the future of retail lies in customer-centric artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and IoT. NEW CONNECTIONS An occasional series of vendor perspectives on the world of connected business – because it’s all about making new connections and starting new conversations. The…
In the venture capital market, big is in. Firms are raising significant sums to finance a growing number of large startup funding rounds. In July, there were 55 venture rounds, worldwide, which topped out at $100 million or more, totaling just over $15 billion raised in nine and 10-figure mega-rounds alone. This set a record for…
As tech’s social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power, and a consequence of specific leadership and values failures (evident as they publicly fail to enforce even the standards they claim to have), there are still people dreaming of a better way. Of social networking beyond outrage-fuelled…
There is a secret behind every open office in Silicon Valley — and it isn’t the drain on productivity. Tech companies have been the vanguards for pushing corporate culture forward toward “radical transparency.” Mark Zuckerberg works in a fully transparent four-walled glass office surrounded by the rest of Facebook. Valve got rid of managers and…
