A new smart football helmet has been developed which knows how many times it, and the head contained within, have been hit. (Video, 3 mins) Coaches from around the nation learned about the latest developments in helmet safety Sunday at … Continue reading
A research group has developed a way to collect brain thoughts and transmit them wirelessly. After more than a decade of engineering work, researchers at Brown University and a Utah company, Blackrock Microsystems, have commercialized a wireless device that can … Continue reading
An important part of moving compute workloads around diverse cloud environments is the ability to bundle them in containers, such as Docker. Docker is meant to free developers from software and infrastructure dependencies, leading to cost savings and other efficiencies … Continue reading
Seems like the corporate world has needed “Facebook with Meetings” and now it will get just that. While Facebook At Work looks and feels like the social network we’ve all grown accustomed to, it is meant to be used as … Continue reading
Last summer, Samsung bought IoT startup SmartThings for $200M, and now is committing $100M to seed an eco-system of apps and developers. Samsung isn’t just funding developers to create an open IoT system but also opening its devices up to … Continue reading
Boeing Renton leader to take over running Charleston, and other executive moves. Boeing said in a press release that Jack Jones is retiring as the leader of its facility in South Carolina, which will now be headed by former 737 … Continue reading
Are you worried that the young people in your family are spending too much time staring at screens? Tell them they are at risk of “early onset tech-neck’. Dermatologists say that constant neck bending to look at screens is leading … Continue reading
Meet the biggest IoT tech company you never heard of. This, then, is the key to understanding Xiaomi: they’re not so much selling smartphones as they are selling a lifestyle, and the key to that lifestyle is MiUI, Xiaomi’s software … Continue reading
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, the Chairwoman of the US Federal Trade Commission laid out the government’s concern over the Internet of Things and their desire to regulate. Tech companies know this as well. One … Continue reading
Upbeat analysis of FedEx earnings report and outlook for 2015. Besides the EPS forecast, FedEx has also reaffirmed that the company will be spending $4.2 billion in capital expenditure in the coming year, and I believe that the capital expenditure … Continue reading