Information Technology
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Analysis: From encryption to deepfakes, lawmakers geek out during Facebook and Twitter hearing
Sep 08, 2018 1:05 am - Jack Dorsey and Sheryl Sandberg relentlessly practiced before taking hot seats on Capitol Hill, engaging in role play and panels of questioning with colleagues and consu...
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Racism and anti-Semitism surged in corners of the Web after Trump's election, analysis shows
Sep 08, 2018 1:00 am - Racist and anti-Semitic content has surged on shadowy social media platforms - spiking around President Donald Trump's Inauguration Day and the "Unite the Right Rally" i...
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Lockheed Martin partners with ESPN's Drone Racing League on self-piloting drone competition
Sep 08, 2018 1:00 am - When an IBM computer beat grandmaster Garry Kasparov at a game of chess in 1996, it was hailed as an unexpected, perhaps foreboding, victory of machine over man. Two dec...
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The old-fashioned way Portland is trying to regulate new electric scooters
Sep 08, 2018 1:00 am - The stereotypical electric scooter rider is a tech savvy millennial on the go, with access to a smartphone and the tolerance for risk that early adopters tend to flaunt....
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If privacy is dead, should people be able to sell their own data?
Sep 08, 2018 1:00 am - If privacy is truly a thing of the past, then people should at least profit off their own personal information. That's the view of data rights advocate Brittany Kaiser, ...
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Samsung plans to show off phone with foldable screen this year
Sep 08, 2018 1:00 am - Smartphones have become a bit predictable over the past few years, leaving consumers craving something new to send them running to stores for an upgrade. For years, Sams...
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Chicago tech company expanding to Naperville, adding up to 400 workersSep 05, 2018 1:00 am - SMS Assist, one of the area's fastest-growing technology companies, plans to expand to Naperville and add up to 400 employees. The expansion will allow SMS Assist, headq...
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Chicago tech company expanding to Naperville, adding up to 400 workersSep 05, 2018 1:00 am - SMS Assist, one of the area's fastest-growing technology companies, says it plans to expand to Naperville, adding up to 400 employees. The expansion will allow SMS Assis...
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So, how does the mysterious Google search engine really work?
Sep 01, 2018 1:20 am - President Donald Trump thinks Google's search engine is "rigged." By featuring more mainstream news outlets and relatively fewer conservative sites in the results he see...
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Rare, untouched Apple I computer - bought for $300 - could fetch $300K at auction
Sep 01, 2018 1:17 am - Steve Wozniak was giving it away free. The Apple co-founder tweaked and soldered computer circuit boards in the mid-1970s from his cubicle at Hewlett-Packard and an apar...