The faulty third-party application that caused American Airlines to cancel a number of flights demonstrates once again the increasing and on-going challenges of hardware/software reliance…
Russian hackers who gained access to the White House’s email system (last year) demonstrate once-again the on-going, e-vulnerability that global organizations ranging from business to governments potentially face.
With Apple’s official iWatch just roll-out under way, only time will tell (pun intended) how well the First-generation fares. Leaving the advance order backlog aside, if preliminary reviews are accurate the firm looks to have hit on their hands.
For the sake of genuine competition, let’s hope that Google’s Project Fi (Wireless Service) shakes-up America’s (essentially) Telecommunications duopoly!
Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) continues growing robustly despite the firm’s reported overall losses last quarter. While this is good news for the firm it also shows the increasing Cloud-dependence of organizations s ranging from the CIA to Netflix and the potential hacking vulnerabilities that they might be subjected to experiencing should Amazon’s servers be targeted.
Two researchers have reportedly discovered a way to capture identification data for Samsung’s S5 fingerprint recognition software via hacking the handsets’ memory… just another day in the never-ending saga of ‘the-more-humanity-becomes-tech-dependent-the-greater-the-level-of-hacking-possibilities.’
Congrats to Japan for breaking their own maglev (high-speed) train record (603km/h | 374mph!)
Norway will become the first nation to officially switch-off their FM radio signal in 2017.
1) America; 2) China; and, 3) Japan in global economic ranking/generated e-waste (surprisingly only 7% of global e-waste is computers, phones or printers) comprised of discarded bathroom, kitchen and laundry equipment. Overall, only 16% of this toxic trash is being recycled or repurposed.
American scientists have reportedly created an ‘eternal’ camera powered by the light it uses to take pictures (meaning it could theoretically take photos for perpetuity). They are now working to refine the devices’ (still) crude technology for commercial application.
