IBM is taking its Watson supercomputer on the road and its first stop will be Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management where some of the country's brightest upcoming business minds will take their shots at the smart Big Blue computer.
The cutting-edge intelligence research development arm of the government wants to take advantage of the world's semiconductor manufacturing capacity but make sure that US security and intellectual property protection is baked in.
Can humans change the course of the environment? Seems like a stretch in many cases but scientists continue to look into the possibility of controlling greenhouse gases and reversing some of the toll of global warming.
If you like puzzles and think you could make shredded or severely damaged documents whole again in a particularly cool way, then the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have a challenge for you.
NASA, which had gone out of its way to diminish wild doomsday reports about the impact of comet Elanin on Earth over the summer, reiterated its scorn for the hoopla by today issuing a statement detailing the comet's death."Comet Elenin is no more," NASA said.
The US Department of Energy wants researchers and scientists to "think outside the box" and come up "highly disruptive Concentrating Solar Power technologies that will meet 6¢/kWh cost targets by the end of the decade."
When I think if the United States Air Force I don't typically think of it worrying too much about the human psyche. But in this case, the Air Force says it wants to begin studies that look at the psychological, neurological, or contextual elements of human reliance on autonomous systems....
So what do you do after you've helped build the IPod? Build wicked cool thermostats of course.That's what ex- Apple engineer Tony Fadell, who is now the founder and CEO of Nest, which this week rolled out its Learning Thermostat. Fadell is considered the creator of the iPod.
With news today that copper prices are on the rise again - up 7% to $3.45 a pound, in over a month - law enforcement officials are looking for new ways to put a crimp in copper and metal thefts that continue to plague almost every community in the US.
ORLANDO -- As much as 50% of company Web sales will come through social and mobile applications by 2015, according to Gartner.The increase will come as e-commerce vendors offer new context-aware, mobile-based applications. Online sales increases will also be partly as companies move aggressively...
ORLANDO - When you start off with this bit of information from Gartner: By 2015, 80% of newly installed wireless networks will be obsolete because of a lack of proper planning - you understand the challenges enterprises face in ramping up mobile environments.
ORLANDO -- If you had to pick 10 technology-related trends that will impact your enterprise infrastructure in the coming year, Gartner says you'd do well to start with virtualization and move to other issues such as social media influence, energy issues and flat networks to name a few.
A new laboratory has opened that will study the impact of lightning strikes on airplanes, particularly new aircraft that are made up of carbon composite materials.
The Air Force today tried to quash the firestorm of criticism around its handling of the computer virus that hit its unmanned drone program last month.
NASA this week rolled out a video game that lets would-be network executives design and build a giant virtual ground and space communications system that would keep astronauts in orbit and scientists on the ground in touch.
In an agreement announced today with the Federal Trade Commission, peer-to-peer file-sharing developer Frostwire can no longer use default settings that share consumers' files, provide a free upgrade its software to correct unintended sharing and bars the firm from misrepresenting what files its applications...
In the wake of the WikiLeaks publishing of classified information in 2010 and other cybersecurity breaches, President Barack Obama today outlined a variety of new information security steps intended to prevent such disclosures in the future.
In what it says is the largest False Claims Act settlement it has ever collected, the US General Services Administration will get $199.5 million plus interest from Oracle for "failing to meet their contractual obligations."
A European Space Agency satellite has detected a thin ozone layer on Venus that while not produced by live organisms, could help scientist in their search for space life elsewhere.The discovery by ESA's Venus Express satellite makes Venus only the third planet in our solar system with an ozone layer...
Computer legend Steve Jobs has died according to Apple. Jobs was 56.On Apple's Web site the company said of Jobs: Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius and the world has lost an amazing human being....Steve leaves behind a company only he could have built and his spirit will forever be...
This is a REAL car whisperer. The so-called MiMi Car is used as a way for Japanese car makers to grab information from attendees of the huge Japanese consumer electronics show, Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC).
India really does want a tablet computer in every home and on every student's desktop. Country officials today rolled out their subsidized Aakash tablet, aimed mostly at students and government workers.
Botnets are indeed one of the scourges of the Internet and the government in conjunction with public and private companies want to work together to wipe them out.The US departments of Commerce and Homeland Security (DHS) today discussed with other federal agencies and information technology-based private-sector...
NASA today awarded what it called the largest prize in aviation history to a company that flew their aircraft 200 miles in less than two hours on less than one gallon of fuel or electric equivalent.
