US Senators Jeff Flake and Chris Coons question Amazon about consumer privacy, after an incident last month when a woman from Portland told KIRO-TV that her Amazon Echo device had sent a recording of a private conversation to a random person in her contact list. Amazon later confirmed the
The well-known Women in the Workplace study carried out by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company describes women’s position and attitudes in corporate America. According to the study, women remain underrepresented at every level in their career. While numbers vary from sector to sector, technology,
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (or HTTPS) is quickly becoming the norm for sites loaded with Chrome. Google announced in a blog post that the number of websites that protect traffic using HTTPS has increased consistently and considerably. Latest figures show that over 60% of the sites loaded
Both organizations and everyday users are always glad to hear the internet is speeding up. Thanks to Google’s engineers – or rather their new congestion control algorithm, the Google Cloud Platform can achieve higher bandwidths and lower latencies for internet traffic. We’re talking about the same a
On Friday, January 27th, President Trump signed an executive order that temporarily blocks travel for immigrants from seven Muslim countries and suspends the US refugee system. This attempt to “keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the US” has been met with plenty of infuriated reactions from all o
Remember those movie scenes where the protagonists are trying to track someone down, and they have to keep them on the phone until the police or agency can pinpoint the perp’s location? They usually need about 1 minute or so for the tracking software to work, but the bad guys always seem to know e
Earlier this week, Apple was ordered by a U.S. judge to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the case of the San Bernardino shooting that took place in December 2015. The judge ruled that the tech giants must provide “reasonable technical assistance” (aka break into) the phone belonging to on
President Obama released the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) – a response to the growing number of cyberattacks on federal networks that seeks seeking $19 billion for cybersecurity, a considerable increase from last year (more than 35%). The plan aims to strengthen not only the security o
Microsoft announced in a blog post the release of its first technical preview of Azure Stack. The release will take place live on Friday, January 29. The event will be followed on February 3 by webcast where Mark Russinovich CTO, Microsoft Azure) and Jeffrey Snover (Chief Architect, Enterprise
It feels like this dispute began ages ago, but after several failed appeals by Samsung, it seems that the two tech giants may be finally closing one chapter of their patent war. The South Korean company agreed to pay $548 million to Apple in a filing on the 3rd of December 2015. How it all began
