It wasn’t the first tiny device to be implanted in a human brain. Still, Elon Musk’s announcement on Monday turned heads in the small community of scientists who have spent decades working to treat certain disabilities and conditions by tapping directly into the body’s nervous system. “Getting a device into […]
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Image: IOGEAR We’re not going to try and sugarcoat it: KVM hubs are some of the least exciting devices to come out of CES, but also critical to those working in IT who rely on access to multiple computers throughout the day. They’ve been incrementally improved over the years, but […]
ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday immediately banned the use of TikTok and two popular messaging applications from all computer devices controlled by Georgia’s state government, saying the Chinese government may be able to access users’ personal information. Kemp also banned the messaging apps WeChat and Telegram, saying […]
Your phone knows a lot about you. It tracks your movement, browsing habits, downloads, and more. Go here for a trick to know when your phone’s camera or microphone is being used. You also need to worry about social media apps, voice assistants, and smart TVs from listening and recording […]
Recent headlines about physicists having created a wormhole using Google’s quantum computer are misleading. Not only did they not create a wormhole in spacetime, the kind that Einstein’s equations suggest is possible, they didn’t even create a hologram of a wormhole, as the original Nature article claimed. Martin Bauer explains […]
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — In a hyperconnected world, living without a computer can make everything harder to do in daily life. Yet, that is the reality some families face in the Capital Region. The Eflun Computer Rehab in Schenectady is trying to change that by closing the digital divide one […]
Early last year, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Selligion Technologies co-founders Naman Chakraborty, Yoshita Sengupta and Joby John observed how smartphones that initially promised to close the Covid learning gap for kids were far from being the computer replacement they thought it would be. This led to the […]
Executive Personal Computers says it will create 133 new jobs. COLUMBIA, S.C. — A computer company is moving into the old Walmart location on Bush River Road in Columbia, bringing with it a potential for over 100 new jobs. Executive Personal Computers announced Wednesday plans to move into a location […]
Longtime owner of Downtown Computers says local customers are ‘in the best of hands’ with Orillia ProNet NEWS RELEASE ORILLIA PRONET ************************* Orillia ProNet Inc., a local full-service information technology company, has announced today that they have acquired Downtown Computers, another local IT computer business located in Orillia. Downtown Computers […]
Carver Mead isn’t impressed by complicated things. As far as he’s concerned, the bigger challenge is to take a complex system and find a way to simplify it without overlooking any of its essential features. In an era when integrated circuits for computers were painstakingly painted by hand by skilled […]
