Tag: innovation & technology
Hackers' next target could be your automobile
As it becomes harder to hack computers, criminals are looking for new targets and they just might have found it in your garage. The latest target for hackers may be your car....
Tributes to Apple co-founder, innovator Steve Jobs
Heads of state, business and technology leaders, and throngs of consumers, who were touched by his products, are paying tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56....
Microsoft's Bill Buxton on risk and innovation
Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, says creativity takes practice and being able to take risks is the key to any success....
Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs dies at 56
Apple announced in a press release Wednesday night that it's co-founder and chairman, Steve Jobs, has died at age 56. The news comes little over a month after Jobs stepped down as CEO....
Real life Wall-E: Robots that recycle
The Finnish research group ZenRobotics has designed a robot that can sort recycling without the help of human hands....
NASA building the most powerful rocket on Earth
NASA's new rocket -- the biggest and most powerful on the planet -- is designed to take people and payloads to Mars, asteroids or deep space, and is expected to launch in 2017....
Internet turning us into 'superficial thinkers,' says researcher
By subjecting ourselves to constant streams of information from the internet, we could eventually lose ability to be contemplative and introspective....
Information overload existed for millennia says historian
Smart phones and wi-fi make some people feel overwhelmed with information, but the problem has been around for thousands of years....
Airlines respond quicker to Twitter complaints
Airlines aren't always the best with customer service, but using Twitter and other social media can help people get better treatment from big airlines....
Technology will enable us to live forever says futurist
Ray Kurzweil takes 150 pills a day in an effort to live until technology allows him to move into a non-biological form....
