Tattoos as lie detectors : wearable tech gets trendy
This week’s Wearable Tech roundup features a tattoo that doubles as a lie detector, a watch that tells you when you’ve had enough fun under the sun, and more fashionable tech for women. Google’s…
Splunk and Ford collaborate on smart car analytics
Futurist, filmmaker and theCUBE alumnus Jason Silva predicts that sensory data will help reshape our individual and collective destinies, improving our lives in “ways we could never have conceived before.” But while Silva’s Human…
Iran has built a drone that could actually save lives
Lifeguards may soon be able to take a breather if a bunch of Iranian engineers have their way. They’re building drones capable of delivering rescue devices to drowning victims. Yes, drones, those little robotic…
Console Wars: PlayStation 4 vs Xbox ONE
Sony and Microsoft are both set to sell their new gaming consoles this month. Sony’s PlayStation 4 will hit the store shelves today, while Xbox fans will have to wait until the Nov 22…
Cerego uses data to help tomorrow’s health professionals study better
It’s been almost a year since Cerego exited stealth with an ambitious memory management tool that marries elements of psychology and applied learning with self-optimizing algorithms to bring education into the twenty-first century. The…
Amazon gets serious about Cloud analytics with PostgreSQL, stream processing
After diving into the desktop-as-a-service market and tackling mobile UX on Day 2 of re:Invent 2013, Amazon is going after cloud analytics in a two-pronged offensive against enterprise vendors. On the relational database front,…
Microsoft unleashes Cybercrime Center
Microsoft yesterday posted the announcement “Digital Detectives” to publicly herald its seriously cutting-edge Cybercrime Center. We’ve seen Microsoft help shut down botnets and other cybercrime in the past, but this fascinating new effort will…
Google crushes Authors Guild in long-running book scanning dispute
For almost a decade, the Authors Guild has waged a bitter war against Google and its massive book search engine project, accusing it of violating copyrights on an industrial scale by scanning the pages…
TeleSign gives your phone its own ‘reputation’ with PhoneID Score
Ever wonder what your phone number can tell about you? What if one day, instead of being asked for your social security number to check your background, you were asked for your phone number?…
What’s yours is mine – Symantec study highlights intellectual property risks
Who owns what in the employee-employer relationship? It’s an interesting line within these relationships, where definitions, boundaries and ownership intersect. We’re talking about the information and intellectual property that an employee produces while working…