“The nurse said to send photos so the doctor could review them in advance,” the New York Times reports, decribing how an ordeal began in February of 2021 for a software engineer named Mark who had a sick son: Mark’s wife grabbed her husband’s phone and texted a few high-quality Read more…
The ubiquitous device is becoming a shop window for the firm’s services. As it dreams up more gadgets to sell to more people, however, Apple is employing another strategy in parallel. The company has so far put 1.8bn devices in the pockets and on the desks of some of the Read more…
A local news report called it “a futuristic dream, now a reality in Las Vegas: self-driving vehicles moving customers up and down the Las Vegas strip.” Lyft’s ride-hailing service now lets customers book Motional’s all-electric (and autonomous driving) IONIQ 5. Not everyone’s sold. “Love technology — love it, promote it Read more…
The USB Rubber Ducky “has a new incarnation, released to coincide with the Def Con hacking conference this year,” reports The Verge. To the human eye, the USB Rubber Ducky looks like an unremarkable USB flash drive. Plug it into a computer, though, and the machine sees it as a Read more…
Last month, it was announced that a specialized security algorithm co-authored by security experts of NXP, IBM, and Arm had been selected by the U.S. Government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to become part of an industry global standard designed to counter quantum threats. IoT Times interviews the Read more…
Last year, Tesla launched a VPP pilot program in California, where Powerwall owners would join in voluntarily without compensation to let the VPP pull power from their battery packs when the grid needed it. Following the pilot program, Tesla and PG&E, the electric utility covering Northern California, launched the first Read more…
[Swedish car publication Vi Bilagare] tested 11 new cars alongside a 2005 Volvo C70, timing how long it took to perform a list of tasks in each car. These included turning on the seat heater, increasing the cabin temperature, turning on the defroster, adjusting the radio, resetting the trip computer, Read more…