Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs
Particularly when it comes to firmware, people have assumed that Apple systems are locked down in ways that PCs aren’t. It turns out this isn’t true.
August 3, 2015 at 08:47AM
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Smog-belching refrigerated trucks might soon emit harmless nitrogen instead
A UK company wants to solve the problem of the engines used to keep refrigerated trucks cold with a whole new type of engine that comes out of cryogenic technology — essentially using very, very cold temperatures to solve the pollution problem.
August 3, 2015 at 08:47AM
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The company didn’t invent the solar panel, but it invented something even more important.
Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX are impressive. But the solar company he founded with his cousins could be transformational.
August 2, 2015 at 06:41PM
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Understanding Apple’s Car Strategy
“I do believe Apple has car prototypes in its labs, as some have suggested. But I believe they are there to help the company create a radical smart/intelligent connected-car architectural design that could be licensed to all car companies or be part of an integrated solution.”
August 2, 2015 at 05:33AM
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It’s fast, global, engaged and influential – so why isn’t Twitter flying?
While Facebook and Snapchat soar, the most immediate social media channel in the world has many experts worried.
August 1, 2015 at 03:57PM
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Spam has fallen to a 10-year low and is unlikely to make a comeback
There are fewer Nigerian princes on the internet today spamming you in their quest to offload large sums of money out of their country. For the first time in a decade email spam now makes up less than half of all emails, falling to 49.7% in June, according to security company Symantec.
August 1, 2015 at 12:31PM
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A Weekend at KansasFest, the Sleepaway Camp for Apple II Fanatics
Every summer, about 70 people descend on Kansas City’s Rockhurst University for KansasFest, a conference that can best be described as a 5-day sleepaway camp exclusively for fans of the Apple II, one of the first commercially successful personal computers.
August 1, 2015 at 09:24AM
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Remembering Sports Phone and 976-1313: When sports info was a phone call away
In a time before results were accessible anytime, anywhere, most sports fans desperate for information had nowhere to turn other than brief updates after each hour on all-news radio stations. Enter Sports Phone in 1975 to offer updated roundups — in 58 seconds — for a small fee.
July 31, 2015 at 09:15PM
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Why Aren’t There More Women Futurists?
Most of the big names in futurism are men. What does that mean for the direction we’re all headed?
July 31, 2015 at 01:56PM
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Inside Spotify’s Plan To Take On Apple Music
After the release of Apple Music, Spotify is trying hard to keep users or draw them back in. As part of their plan they’ve developed a new feature that highlights the coolest music you’ve never heard of. Fast Company talks to the man who developed the algorithm that finds what’s cool.
July 31, 2015 at 01:56PM
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