Walgreens Planning for October 18 Apple Pay Launch
An internal memo addressed to Walgreens employees designed to prepare them for the upcoming launch of Apple Pay suggests that Apple’s new payments service might be going live on Saturday, October 18.
October 12, 2014 at 10:33AM
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Former NSA director had thousands personally invested in obscure tech firms
New financial disclosure documents released this month by the National Security Agency (NSA) show that Keith Alexander, who served as its director from August 2005 until March 2014, had thousands of dollars of investments during his tenure in a handful of technology firms.
October 12, 2014 at 10:33AM
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The Cigarette That Charges for Every Puff
A recent patent from Phillip Morris imagines a web-connected e-cig. It could help users quit — but it could also open their pipe up to tracking and hacking.
October 12, 2014 at 08:15AM
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View From Nowhere
“As with the similarly inferential sciences like evolutionary psychology and pop-neuroscience, Big Data can be used to give any chosen hypothesis a veneer of science and the unearned authority of numbers. The data is big enough to entertain any story.”
October 12, 2014 at 06:45AM
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The Robots Of Resistance
Why does new technology always seem to serve the rich and powerful? Meet the MIT visionary who kept asking that question, as long as he could get away with it.
October 11, 2014 at 02:20PM
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Microsoft’s Strange Quest for the Topological Qubit
Can an aging corporation’s adventures in fundamental physics research open a new era of unimaginably powerful computers?
October 11, 2014 at 11:10AM
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The tech diversity story that’s not being told.
We all know tech is excluding most people from participating. But one group is actually over represented. And we’ve been conspicuously silent.
October 11, 2014 at 10:09AM
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Getting Banned by the NFL Is Great for Beats
The competition between Bose and Beats cost Colin Kaepernick $10,000 this week, when he violated an NFL ban on wearing Beats headphones on television after games. But the public spat is probably worth more than that to the company: it projects exactly the attitude Beats has carefully cultivated.
October 11, 2014 at 08:07AM
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This Is How America’s Spies Could Detect Lying in the Future
What the national security community has long wanted is lie detection system that works in the field, can be deployed anywhere and can spot deceit on site.
October 11, 2014 at 01:39AM
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Dressed in dark suit, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg meets PM Modi
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Facebook founder shed the casual attire he is usually seen in — jeans, t-shirt and sneakers, (hoodie optional) — and wore a dark suit for his meeting with the Prime Minister.
October 10, 2014 at 02:16PM
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