Technology

The glasses-free technology that made me believe in 3D TV again

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 »

Oppo’s new technology can fully charge a smartphone in just 15 minute

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 »

Is technology taking over from emotional spontaneity?

The history of our bond with technology reveals a basic and simple relationship: we purchased machines and devices that we expected to fulfil a certain need. Be it computer for sending emails or a mobile phone for helping us stay connected constantly, we interact with technology with predictable reciprocity. This relationship, however, has changed. As devices become artificially intelligent, it ... Read More »

SparkSummit East wrapup: Big demand for evolving technology

The Apache Spark analytics engine is still immature, and this year’s Spark Summit East was more of a technology than a business conference. But Spark is also generating huge enthusiasm, and not just from techies. IT organizations and even non-technical business people, as well as big data pundits like Wikibon’s George Gilbert (@GGilbert41) see Spark as a game-changer that will ... Read More »

US aircraft carriers are no longer the ultimate deterrent because China, Iran and Russia can easily attack with new technology

An obsession with aircraft carriers may end the the United States’ naval dominance if military leaders don’t change their ways, a report warned today. It says China, Russia and other countries have ‘increasingly lethal and precise’ weapons and tactics that can destroy carriers, breaking the backbone of the Navy. Aircraft carriers are at the core of the Navy’s arsenal. Not ... Read More »

J.P. Morgan Lays Out Its Technology Plans

The largest U.S. bank by assets is expected to detail its technology spending strategy throughout different presentations from Chief Executive James Dimon and his top lieutenants. Actions range from new spending on fintech to cutting costs on technology that keeps the bank running. Specifically, J.P. Morgan JPM +1.30% plans to increase its technology spending to around $9.4 billion from roughly $9.2 billion, ... Read More »

OPM’s top technology official retires amid data breach fallout

The top technology official at the US Office of Personnel Management announced her retirement on Monday amid calls for her ouster by some Republican lawmakers. Donna Seymour, chief information officer, said in an email to her colleagues that was seen by Reuters that leaving was a “very tough decision”. She added that she felt it was in the “agency’s best ... Read More »

Technology and Changing Society: A Critical View

We are living in an era of technological advancement, especially that of the information technology, where at a press of a button on your handset everything is displayed on your screen. We get the latest news and information about the happenings around us. Technology has no doubt helped us in many ways for instance in education, it give easy access ... Read More »

NASA’s new laser technology could send humans to Mars in flat 3 days

For humans to arrive at the Red Planet with the available technology, it will approximately take five months to touch down on the Martian surface. NASA researchers are now working on a new laser technology that can send humans to Mars in flat three days. The idea is to use lasers to propel spacecraft with giant sails to Mars in ... Read More »

We cannot trust our government, so we must trust the technology

Apple’s technology is a response to users’ thirst for technology that can secure their privacy and autonomy in a world where they cannot trust any institutions, whether government or market. It is therefore the vital national security interest of the United States that we build an institutional system of robust accountability and oversight for surveillance and investigation powers. We need ... Read More »