The Smartphone, Except Landlocked
Before the smartphone fit in your pocket, it sat on your desk — and sometimes, it was even called an iPhone. Let’s check out a few landline smartphones.

August 16, 2019 at 10:49AM
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A Tax Credit Fueled The Solar Energy Boom. Now It’s In Limbo
A federal subsidy that helped launch the US solar industry is about to expire. The industry is likely to stumble without some replacement.

August 16, 2019 at 06:47AM
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I Shared My Phone Number. I Learned I Shouldn’t Have
A New York Times tech columnist asked security researchers what they could find out about him from just his cellphone number. Quite a lot, it turns out.

August 15, 2019 at 02:20PM
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I Wrote A Story With Increasing Levels Of Keyboard Input Delay
It was fine until it wasn’t.

August 15, 2019 at 12:01PM
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Hundreds Of Thousands Of People Are Using Passwords That Have Already Been Hacked, Google Says
New ‘Password Checkup’ Chrome extension found 1.5 percent of all website logins use compromised credentials, a figure that’s higher for porn websites.

August 15, 2019 at 10:51AM
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Huge Security Flaw Exposes Biometric Data Of More Than A Million Users
Suprema’s Biostar 2 system is used to secure buildings around the world. The information, which included a total of 27.8 million records totaling 23 gigabytes of data, was found in a publicly accessible database, although it’s unclear whether any malicious actors accessed the data while it was unsecured.

August 14, 2019 at 08:57PM
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Amazon Says Its Facial Recognition Can Now Identify Fear
The company claims it can accurately identify seven emotions: happy, sad, angry, surprised, disgusted, calm and confused.

August 14, 2019 at 08:57PM
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Smart Ovens Have Been Turning On Overnight And Preheating To 400 Degrees
The June Oven debuted in 2015 as a $1,495 countertop oven that uses a camera and computer vision to identify food that’s been placed inside.

August 14, 2019 at 03:05PM
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The Original Kindle Was Crazy
“Are they completely nuts?” read the review from the New York Times of Amazon’s original Kindle e-reader back in 2007.

August 13, 2019 at 04:43PM
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The ‘Two Generals’ Problem’ Perfectly Explains A Frequent Computer Bug
You probably do not frequently find yourself thinking about medieval battle strategy or computer science thought experiments. But if you’ve ever had an issue ordering food online, maybe you should.

August 13, 2019 at 03:55PM
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