Wayne Rash

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When you think about positioning, the first thing that comes to mind is GPS. The Defense Department Global Positioning System uses a constellation of 24 satellites, each containing a highly accurate atomic clock. Your location is determined by measuring the speed of light delay triangulating from three or more of those […]

SAN JOSE, CA—Imagine a security analysis platform that can comb through the thousands of alerts you’re getting from your intrusion detection system, your firewalls and your log files and look for connections between seemingly minor events to develop a picture of what may become a major security incident. Then imagine that it uses that information […]

The Parity ICO Passport Service (PICOPS) has announced that it’s last day of business will be May 24, 2018, which is the day before the European Union’s GDPR goes into effect. PICOPS is an authentication service for the Ethereum crypto-currency. It used blockchain technology to store personal information as a way to ensure that traders […]

Those of us who fly airplanes have a mnemonic called GUMPS, which stands for certain tasks you must do to confirm that you’re ready to land. The letters remind pilots to do things like make sure they have fuel flowing to the engine, the landing gear is down, seatbelts fastened and switches in their proper […]

The new Dell Latitude 5290 is what Microsoft’s Surface Pro could have been, but wasn’t. It’s a fast, sleek 2-in-1 tablet that can take the place of your laptop. It’s also a powerful Windows 10 computer with an available Intel i7 processor, up to 16 GB of memory and SSDs up to 1 terabyte. It […]

Crippling trade sanctions put into place by the U.S. Department of Commerce that prevented US companies from selling goods and services to Chinese electronics manufacturer ZTE will be reversed, according to a Tweet by President Donald J. Trump.  Trump said in subsequent messages on Twitter that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping had been discussing […]

If you listen to the examples of Google phone calls to a restaurant and a hair salon that are posted on the Google AI Blog, you’ll be surprised by how natural the conversations sound. The humans on the other end of the call are apparently unaware that they’re talking to a machine. The exchange of […]

Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) has introduced a resolution in the US Senate that if passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives, and signed by the President, would overturn the actions of the Federal Communications Commission when it voted to reclassify the internet under Title II of the Communications Act.  The internet had been […]

The high end of the business laptop computer market is a battleground. The effort by leading laptop makers, such as Hewlett Packard, Lenovo and Dell, is to produce devices that are so sleek, so light and so thin that it becomes compelling purchases for business buyers. This may explain why styling is such an important […]

An important goal of commercial drone operations has always been long distance use. While there have been plenty of cases in which a drone can be put to work within a mile of the operator’s location, moving beyond that limit makes these small, remote-controlled aircraft much more useful to enterprises. For example, inspecting a transmission […]

Cambridge Analytica, the British company that earned infamy for its exploitation of Facebook data, is calling it quits. According to a statement released by the company on May 2, CA and its parent SCL Elections are filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. and commencing insolvency proceedings in the UK. “Over the past several months, Cambridge […]

Mobile Carriers T-Mobile and Sprint announced their plans on April 29 to merge in a $26 Billion all-stock deal that will create the second largest wireless carrier in the U.S.  The surviving company would be T-Mobile and John Legere would remain as CEO of the combined companies. Deutsche Telekom would own about 40 percent of […]