Wayne Rash

The new version of HP’s EliteBook 1040 laptop looks and feels like a business laptop. The smooth, metal case is cool to the touch and its chamfered edges gleam, even in subdued light. The 14-inch screen is clear and bright, while the keyboard is large enough for easy typing. According to HP, the EliteBook 1040 […]

Online retailer Amazon has been catching a fair amount of derision over its recently disclosed patent for an airborne fulfillment center that uses drones for delivery. Amazon’s patent application, which was filed on April 5, 2016, describes how a blimp-like lighter-than-air aircraft would hover near potential markets carrying merchandise that would then be delivered by […]

As I’m writing the news is circulating that outgoing President Barack Obama has levied sanctions against Russia for various hacking activities including their attempts to affect the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election. The sanctions that are currently being implemented include expelling 35 Russian “operatives” from the United States and personal sanctions against the leaders […]

Dell has the competition beat in terms of thickness and weight in the latest version of the Dell Latitude 13, model 7370 ultrabook. It’s the thinnest of any business laptop I’ve looked at lately, and it’s also the lightest. The 7370 is so light partly because it has a 13-inch screen, so it’s a smaller […]

It was one of those crimes that wouldn’t necessarily be talked about in national news reports. A man’s body was found floating in a hot tub behind a house in Bentonville, Ark. Besides the regrettable loss of a life, there wasn’t much remarkable about the crime, at least not until the investigation kicked into high […]

Dell Makes its Latitude 13 7370 Laptop Thin, Light and Tough Dell designed its Latitude 13 7370 laptop to be one of the thinnest and lightest on the market, yet strong enough to withstand the hard knocks of daily use. Dell Latitude 7370 Looks Like It’s All Screen The thin bezel around the Dell Latitude […]

HP Designs EliteBook 1040 G3 as a Stylish Business PC in Rugged Case HP Inc. has designed its latest ultrabook, the EliteBook 1040 G3, as rugged, workaday laptop designed for business and featuring a stylish, all-metal case. The Case Has a Sleek Silver Finish The HP EliteBook 1040 G3 looks sleek in the silver gleam […]

The move by Uber to launch a fleet of self-driving cars in San Francisco is not unexpected. After all, Uber is based in San Francisco and the company has had a strong business presence in the city since its earliest days. What wasn’t expected is that it would happen so quickly. After its surprising announcement […]

At first glance, it’s easy to mistake Lenovo’s X1 Yoga for its ancestor, the X1 Carbon from Lenovo. The Carbon was a breakthrough laptop design Lenovo and the model still around, but the newest innovations, as well as the touch screen, have moved to the Yoga. If you’re familiar with Lenovo’s consumer Yoga laptops, then […]

In an ominous note on the company website, Samsung has begun telling its recalcitrant owners that 93 percent return rate for its dangerously defective Galaxy Note7 smartphones isn’t good enough. The company wants all of its ill-fated phones to be turned in regardless of the wishes of the phone’s owners. To make sure that happens, […]

The soon-to-open Amazon Go store in Seattle will be an interesting experiment in some technologies that, before now, haven’t been put into combined operations. As Chris Preimesberger points out, sensor fusion, machine learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence and other technologies are getting wrapped up into a big enterprise retail application for the first time. Before […]

WASHINGTON—It was an event that many of us in the news business have feared would happen: A deranged gunman, fueled by passion based on a series of fake news stories, came to the nation’s capital with an assault rifle, entered a place of business and fired. The gunman, Edgar Maddison Welch of Salisbury, North Carolina, […]