Technology

When Bill Hewitt began his teaching career in Troy, he still did most of his word processing on a typewriter, the only thing he used a telephone for was to call other people and the most technologically advanced form of communication was the fax machine. All of that has changed in Hewitt’s 24 years teaching within the Troy City Schools ... Read More »

he team’s projects so far have addressed around-the-clock technology: bed-based sensors to track child breathing and heart rates; wearable sensors to track child behaviors; and designs that can improve the quality of life for paraeducators who work with these children. Now the team has received a three-year $400,000 National Science Foundation grant to expand these ideas and better establish a ... Read More »

Craig Sakowitz could be considered a technologically adept driver. As an e-commerce project manager for the Gap in San Francisco, he often rents cars and relies on hands-free technologies to get work done. But that’s when he can make them work. When he rented a car recently, he had problems with the Bluetooth system. “I’m a technology guy, and I ... Read More »

A J.D. Power report finds problems with in-vehicle technology of 2015 cars. Consumers say unreliable navigation systems and other issues are eroding trust when it comes to rating a car’s performance. The big problem is that basic stuff has been EMBEDDED in the info-tainment functions. For example, it is VERY UNcommon now that you can reach over (without looking) and ... Read More »

Emblazoned on banners hung along the city’s main thoroughfare La Rambla are the words: “Liberty, equality, fraternity, and technology for all.” Exalted company for a few phones and gadgets, you might think — except the banners were hinting at something much bigger. As a product of the Age of Enlightenment and a guiding principle of the French Revolution, the phrase ... Read More »

Biomedical researchers are dismayed over a patent dispute that could threaten an innovative method for sequencing genomes. Sequencing giant Illumina said on 23 February that it has filed a lawsuit against UK-based Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the first company to commercialize nanopore sequencing. The technology reads single bases of genetic material as they pass through a nanoscale pore. The suit, by ... Read More »

The patent wars have come to the cinemaplex. If you marveled at the facial animations of the current hit movie “Deadpool” or last year’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” you probably didn’t realize you werewatching technology called Mova. Mova captures every facial tick and motion of a human actor and places it on an animated figure. And it won an Academy ... Read More »

apid changes in technology have affected businesses in more ways than we can count, from globalization and organizational adjustments to a workforce clamoring for remote and mobile job opportunities — and human resources has had to adapt swiftly. If HR wants to continue to play a critical role in helping businesses anticipate and manage organizational change, it must have technology ... Read More »

Quite frankly, 3D glasses have never failed to be anything but a headache inducing, slightly blurry mess for me. That might be why a recent demo of a new glasses-free 3D TV from Ultra-D blew me away. It just works. Six years or so after the industry declared that stereoscopic 3D displays were going to be the future of entertainment, 3D TVs ... Read More »

While Oppo hasn’t managed to break the smartphone market the way a few other Chinese brands have recently, it does have a relatively strong fan following of its own. And those fans are about to be in for a treat soon. The company launched a new quick charging technology yesterday at MWC 2016, called Super VOOC Flash Charge, that is ... Read More »