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Hurricane Season 2014: Using Technology to Stay Safe Last year, the National Weather Service unveiled two new weather supercomputers designed to more accurately project storm intensity and structure. For the 2014 hurricane season, NOAA is rolling out a Potential Storm Surge Flooding map to show coastal areas where storm surge could occur. |
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Is the Era of Antivirus Software Over? Brian Dye, Symantec's senior vice president of information security, recently declared that "antivirus is dead." These remarks from Symantec, which invented commercial antivirus software, caused a stir in the security industry. Have we really come to the point where antivirus software is not needed? |
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Apple's HomeKit Will Bring Smart Device Tech to Your Home At the 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple made several announcements, including the company's move into the smart home industry. Apple's smart home platform, which is being called HomeKit, will aim to be a centralized way to run your home. |
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Can MIT's RoboWall Make a Small House or Apartment Seem Bigger? The MIT Media Lab’s Changing Places research group created a prototype of “The CityHome,” an ultra-efficient, responsive small home/apartment that is only 840 square feet and has hardware and software that lets you customize your living space to function like an area two or three times larger. |
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NASA SPHERES Sending Google Technology to Space NASA and space exploration just became more like something out of the realm of science fiction—and Google played a role in it. Beginning in October, NASA's satellites known as SPHERES will begin to incorporate Google’s Project Tango technology in an effort to help NASA increase overall efficiency. |
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Google Acquires Word Lens Translation App Google recently acquired Quest Visual, maker of the Word Lens translation app. Word Lens uses built-in cameras on smartphones to quickly scan and identify foreign text and then translate and display the words in another language. Anuj Magazine examines the possible strategy driving the acquisition. |
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Best Selfie Ever: NASA's Global Earth Day NASA had an ambitious event this year to create a “global selfie,” a crowd-sourced mosaic image that would resemble Earth as it appeared from space on Earth Day—and more than 50,000 people responded. The result is a zoomable 3.2 gigapixel image built with more than 36,000 individual images. |
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Heart-Monitoring Smart Devices Missing a Beat Smart devices used by fitness junkies tout the ability to measure heart rate. Yet, a recent report by CNET revealed that most of the heart rate monitoring functions for smart devices are missing a beat—literally. Some devices are unable to find a pulse when the heart rate reaches a certain range. |
