One of the most popular home internet router brands in the U.S. could be banned from sale in the country following fears that the routers could present a threat to national security. According to the Wall Street Journal, three separate U.S. agencies have opened investigations into TP-Link routers. The routers, which account for 65 percent […]
Apple’s added another powerhouse staff member to its self-driving car team lineup in the form of Jaime Waydo, previously a senior engineer at Alphabet’s Waymo as well as NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Waydo was “instrumental” at Waymo, some of her former coworkers have stated. Specifically, she was responsible for checking the safety of prototypes, and […]
By the time I graduated from high school in 1996, I was one of two people in my school routinely carrying a notebook computer through the halls of Providence Country Day in East Providence, Rhode Island. I carried a PowerBook 150 and one of my best friends, Josh Ledgard, carried a white Toshiba notebook that […]
Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation both posted a recent version of Apple’s confidential license agreement to which all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch developers must agree as well as took a critical stance against the document. Per AppleInsider, the foundation came to the conclusion that by controlling the App Store and preventing rival competition by […]
Over the past couple of years, some of my clients have inadvertently soaked their iPhones (the rocket scientist who routinely works for NASA managed to marinate his in a gym bag filled with Gatorade and the other stories are even more obscure). Given this situation, the result from Apple was fairly punitive: time to shell […]