Her Task Is to Wean the White House Off Floppy Disks
Four months into her job as the chief technology officer of the United States, the woman whose division at Google dreamed up Google Glass and the driverless car is facing culture shock in a federal bureaucracy ruled by creaky technology and run in part on the floppy disk.
January 4, 2015 at 12:15PM
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The Benefits of Selling Software outside the Mac App Store
When you get swept along in the shininess of the App Store it’s easy to forget that you no longer know who your customers are. You don’t have any of their details, you can’t even respond to them when they leave a review on the App Store. The fact of the matter is they are really Apple’s customers, not yours.
January 3, 2015 at 12:20PM
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U.S. Spies Say They Tracked ‘Sony Hackers’ For Years
American spies have detailed dossiers on the North Koreans who the U.S. says were behind the Sony attack. But the still-secret evidence likely won’t convince skeptics of the Washington’s case.
January 3, 2015 at 10:07AM
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Oculus Rift’s Palmer Luckey: ‘I brought virtual reality back from the dead’
Meet the new boy king of technology, 22-year-old Palmer Luckey. Visionaries see his 3D virtual reality headset as a real life-changer — the future of education, business, medicine and more.
January 2, 2015 at 05:06PM
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Get ready: The FCC says it will vote on net neutrality in February
Federal regulators looking to place restrictions on Internet providers will introduce and vote on new proposed net neutrality rules in February, Federal Communications Commission officials said Friday.
January 2, 2015 at 04:01PM
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Lizard Squad attacks Brian Krebs, the blogger who hunted them down
Now that cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs has outed members the group that took out the PlayStation and Xbox Live networks over Christmas, the hackers are coming after him.
January 2, 2015 at 04:01PM
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Google posts Windows 8.1 vulnerability before Microsoft can patch it
Google’s Project Zero tracks vulnerabilities in software systems and reports them to vendors “in as close to real-time as possible” — a noble cause, no? But what happens if said vendor then fails to push a fix within the 90-day window?
January 2, 2015 at 03:06PM
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A Day With Apple Pay
For years, payments industry insiders have been skeptical of the rise of the mobile wallet, a vision of the future where customers eschew wallets for credit cards stored on their smartphones. And then came Apply Pay.
January 2, 2015 at 03:06PM
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How Ambient Intimacy Became So Overwhelming
Social media allows us to connect with people on a level we wouldn’t otherwise have access to — but we may have gone too far.
January 2, 2015 at 02:06PM
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Obama authorizes additional sanctions against North Korea in Sony hack
The additional sanctions target three companies as well as 10 North Korean government officials, including individuals working in Iran, Syria, China, Russia and Namibia, according to the Treasury Department.
January 2, 2015 at 01:21PM
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