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Experience Connected Home Technology Like Never Before at “Target Open House”

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Target Open House – part retail space, part lab, part meeting venue for the connected home tech community – opens to the public in San Francisco’s Metreon shopping center. This 3,500 square-foot ode to IoT features a transparent, acrylic “house” complete with acrylic furniture and detailing that makes the house feel right at home among San Francisco’s “Painted Ladies.” But the house isn’t just for...
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Solar paint offers endless energy from water vapour – RMIT University

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Researchers have developed a solar paint that can absorb water vapour and split it to generate hydrogen – the cleanest source of energy. The paint contains a newly developed compound that acts like silica gel, which is used in sachets to absorb moisture and keep food, medicines and electronics fresh and dry. But unlike silica gel, the new material, synthetic molybdenum-sulphi...
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See Through Solid Objects With Your Smart Phone.

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New To Market, Handheld 3D Imaging System For Your Smart Phone. Vayyar Announces Walabot, a Handheld 3D Imaging System for Consumers, Developers and Curious Inventors Everywhere. Available in April 2016 for Android devices, Walabot sees beyond the limits of human vision TEL AVIV and SAN FRANCISCO, February 18, 2016 -- Vayyar Imaging (http://vayyar.com), the 3D-imaging sensor company ...
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First Genetically Modified Insect Drones Take Flight

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Draper combines navigation and neuromodulation to guide insects CAMBRIDGE, MA –   The smallest aerial drones mimic insects in many ways, but none can match the efficiency and maneuverability of the dragonfly. Now, engineers at Draper are creating a new kind of hybrid drone by combining miniaturized navigation, synthetic biology and neurotechnology to guide dragonfly insects. The sys...
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Ways Technology Is Improving Our Health

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  We hear all the time about how technology is bad for us. Since the introduction of computers. Even people working on App Development have the same issues, we spend more time sitting at a desk than moving around at work. We have created this sedentary lifestyle that is causing havoc in our overall life. What if I were to tell you that technology has produced benefits? Would you b...
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Gates Seven Predictions for the Future

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Bill Gates has been almost prophetic in his past predictions: his 1999 list was hauntingly accurate, foreseeing the advent of price comparison websites, smartphones, social media, and bots. Over the last few years, in interviews and annual letters, he has continued predicting: here are a selection of seven of his insights. 1. IN THE NEXT 15 YEARS, 33 MILLION PEOPLE COULD BE WIPED OUT IN LESS ...
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Meet the 22-year-old who saved thousands of people from the global ransomware hack – VICE News

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“I got back from eating lunch, saw [WannaCry] had started to hit the news… so I started looking into the malware, and I found this domain,” Hutchins said of a URL he found embedded in WannaCry’s code. He then registered the domain — a common practice when trying to track malware — and that unexpectedly triggered a shutdown of the WannaCry. By the time that happened, the hack had already aff...
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Windows XP is the third most popular operating system in the world – Business Insider

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People still haven't learnt their lesson when it comes to running Windows XP, it seems.Attackers took advantage of a known, major flaw in Windows XP to launch a cyberattack which is still causing chaos globally.But the operating system still runs on many PCs around the world, even though Microsoft stopped providing security support on April 8, 2014. According to statistics from Net Applications, i...
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Cable Startup Layer3 TV Launches in L.A.

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  Cable Startup Layer3 TV Launches in L.A. by Natalie Jarvey Cable startup Layer3TV is making its biggest move yet. The company, which offers broadband-provided access to a traditional bundle of live television programming, has turned on its service in Los Angeles. It's the Denver-based company's largest expansion to date, after rolling out its service in smaller markets including Chicag...
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