Wayne Rash

At first glance, the announcement by Luc Vincent, the VP of engineering at Lyft, that the ride-hailing company was opening a new self-driving division looked like a late me-too effort to respond to Uber’s work on self-driving cars. But looking a little deeper into the effort, it’s clear that Lyft’s plans and the company’s motivations […]

The idea that a toy presents a real security threat first came to national attention back in 1998, when a small robot disguised as a fanciful animal was banned by the National Security Agency. This critter was known as a Furby. The Furby appeared to learn English by listening to words spoken around it and […]

At the risk of sounding repetitive like a broken record, I’ll say it again. Encryption is vital to protecting your data in the event of a data breach. I’ve been saying that encryption is vital in this column for years. But that message has been slow to convince most organizations to start encrypting their data. […]

There’s no question that an Apple iPhone is an expensive device. The cheapest iPhone 7 will set you back $649. A fully tricked-out iPhone 7 Plus costs $969, which is really expensive for any smartphone. But if mobile market blogger’s prediction becomes reality, the iPhone 8 prices will reach a record high when it’s introduced […]

Amazon officials jubilantly reported that Prime Day sales grew 60 percent sales growth over the same event in 2016 while Prime membership growth also set a record. Analysts have estimated that about 70 percent of U.S. households have Prime memberships. But the number of U.S. Prime households grew by more than any other single day […]

In a hangar somewhere in the U.S. sits a Boeing 767-300 air cargo plane with the words Prime Air emblazoned on the side and the Amazon smile on its tail. This aircraft is one of a fleet of some 40 cargo aircraft that Amazon has leased from Atlas Air and ATSG to help the Web […]

At first glance the Copycat malware doesn’t seem like a huge threat to end users. Its primary purpose is to make money by reporting the installation of apps for which it gets paid a commission. End users will see apps installed on their Android devices that they didn’t download, and in many cases those apps […]

Both of Apple’s iPad Pro tablets received significant upgrades in June. The upgrades included a faster CPU and GPU, more RAM and the option for more storage. Both iPad Pros now have much better cameras and improved screens which brought a wider color gamut. However, the smaller iPad Pro had its screen size stretched to […]

Lenovo X1 Yoga Gen 2 Business Laptop Delivers the Right Improvements The second generation of Lenovo’s two-in-one business ultrabook, the ThinkPad X1 Yoga is an improved version of last year’s original. The company’s other business ultrabook, the X1 Carbon, remains in production and shares a lot of DNA with the Yoga. The 3-pound Yoga is […]

When I reviewed Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Yoga last fall, I found little to complain about, but clearly Lenovo thought there was room for improvement. Then in January, 2017, Lenovo began showing the X1 Yoga Gen 2 at CES and other events. The new version of the X1 Yoga featured seventh generation   as you’d expect, but […]

When the Petya malware arrived in Europe this week, it seemed at least at first like a repeat the WannaCry cyber-attacks in May. The victims were running Microsoft Windows computers that had not been patched to close a vulnerability in the SMBv1 protocol. Microsoft issued the patch in mid-March, and since that time the company […]

When Apple’s new iPhone burst onto the mobile market ten years ago this week, I was happily checking my email with a shiny new BlackBerry Bold that my editors at eWEEK had provided. I’d watched the introduction of this new device and wondered why anyone would want to use a device where the only input […]