Wayne Rash

The FBI charging document reads like a well-crafted spy novel. According to the filing, an alleged member of a Russian crime syndicate, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, entered the United States in late July. His goal was to make contact with an employee of Tesla and to convince that employee to insert ransomware into the company’s industrial […]

The last time eWEEK looked at the role of computing in Formula 1 racing, a very lucky Chris Preimesberger visited the headquarters of Ferrari in Maranello, Italy. What he found there, in addition to some drool-worthy race cars, was a data center the size of a house with ten racks of equipment, power conditioning and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressional hearings about major technology companies have been going on for years. Most of the time the hearings have revealed that members of Congress know little about the issues relating to the technology business, and as a result the hearings were ineffectual and the outcome predictable. This year was different. For the […]

AT&T has announced that its 5G network is now available nationwide. AT&T is now the second U.S. wireless carrier to achieve nationwide coverage, following T-Mobile, which accomplished that on Dec. 2, 2019. Like T-Mobile, AT&T is deploying its low-band technology that uses 850 MHz to reach larger portions of the U.S. that the company can […]

When you’re looking for a new laptop for your business, the first thing you’ll notice is that the selection of laptop computers is enormous. But not all laptops are suitable for business. Many laptops are built more for home use so children can do schoolwork on the dining room table. While some of those computers […]

When I wrote about 6GHz WiFi 6 a couple of months ago, it was already clear that wireless communications in the office were about to change dramatically. With WiFi 6, speeds would be up, latency would be down and familiar limitations of WiFi would vanish. The relatively fallow ground of 6GHz meant that compromises due […]

You can tell that Apple’s newest iPad is different from the minute you take it out of the box. For one thing, the home button is gone. On the back is a row of three tiny contacts. Turn it on, and it’s essentially all screen.  Apple has brought many of the latest changes from the […]

If you were to believe the lofty ideals of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, we’d have entered a world in which our personal information is treated like the valued thing that it is. It would be carefully hidden away, free from the prying eyes of hackers, telemarketers or corporate spies. Every company that has business […]

When the FCC approved opening up the 6GHz frequency band to unlicensed use on April 23, it was immediately clear from the comments of the commissioners that they expected that WiFi would be the major beneficiary. This was no surprise if only because the use of the band and WiFi have been intermingled for months […]

The Federal Communications Commission took the long-awaited vote on April 23 to open up the entire 6GHz band to unlicensed use, including WiFi and other types of unlicensed communications. Users will have to share the band with existing users, which includes newsgathering, satellite communications and telecom backhaul. Equipment for the new uses at 6GHz is […]

What’s happening is complex, and it’s due in part to sudden changes in demand for some items and a sudden drop in demand for others. Adding to the complexity is a lack of some sources of material to provide supplies at the normal level; then there’s a lack of transport for some types of materials. […]

By now you know about COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus, and you know that it’s wreaking havoc on any gathering of people, already leading to cancellations of conferences, sporting events and social gatherings. Those gatherings of people are now including people at work, leading authorities in the state of Washington to ask their employees […]