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Police use of facial-recognition technology raises concerns about racial profiling

Craig Timberg The Washington Post
Oct 22, 2016 7:12 am - WASHINGTON - The growing use of facial-recognition systems has led to a high-tech form of racial profiling, with African-Americans more likely than others to have their ...
The quest for virtual reality's first killer app

Pavel Alpeyev Bloomberg
Oct 22, 2016 7:11 am - Sony Corp.'s recent release of the PlayStation VR brings virtual reality to the cusp of mainstream adoption. To make it a must-have home entertainment device, the gadget...
How will Sony's PSVR affect virtual reality market?

Daisuke Ichikawa WP Bloomberg
Oct 22, 2016 7:10 am - People who want to get away from it all can experience imaginary worlds, or something closer to home, as virtual reality becomes more of a reality with the introduction ...
Des Plaines group gets funds for clean power plant

Daily Herald report
Oct 21, 2016 1:00 am - Gas Technology Institute, a Des Plaines-based energy research group, has received $80 million in federal funds to design, build and operate a clean energy power plant in...
Why Twitter, Spotify and other major services were down Friday

Andrea Peterson
Oct 21, 2016 1:00 am - Someone attacked a key part of the Internet's infrastructure Friday morning, causing some major services such as Twitter, Spotify and Airbnb to be inaccessible for some ...
CompuSystems adds Informa Show WWETT

Oct 19, 2016 1:00 am - DOWNERS GROVE - Informa Exhibitions has awarded CompuSystems with exclusive rights to provide registration and lead retrieval services for its 2017 WWETT Show- Water & W...
In Rwanda, lifesaving blood now drops from the sky

Steven Overly The Washington Post
Oct 16, 2016 7:21 am - Drones carrying lifesaving blood to rural medical clinics now soar through the skies over Rwanda. California-based Zipline, the company that generated buzz with its plan...
How nonprofits use virtual reality to tackle real-world issues

Steven Overly The Washington Post
Oct 16, 2016 7:19 am - You meander around the supermarket loading a basket with goods - breakfast tea, sugar, milk. Along the way, though, you become befuddled. You struggle to recall the item...
Study: 70 percent of Americans ready to try a driverless car

Michael Laris The Washington Post
Oct 16, 2016 7:17 am - Americans may be far more ready to hop into a driverless car than anyone thought, according to a new survey by the Consumer Technology Association. The CTA questioned 2,...
Facebook-backed education tool tests parents' privacy fears

Emma Brown and Todd C. Frankel The Washington Post
Oct 16, 2016 7:16 am - Caroline Pollock Bilicki felt uneasy about the new education program introduced this year at her children's Chicago school. Summit Basecamp, built with the help of Faceb...

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