Wayne Rash

At first glance, the new Google Pixel phone is a solid effort to bring customers a ‘great piece of hardware supporting a solid implementation of the Android operating system. Google says it will support the phone directly, which isn’t actually manufactured by Google, even though the search giant claims it is. The fact that Google […]

Voter registration officials in 21 states have contacted the Department of Homeland Security to request help in dealing with attempts to break into their voter registration systems. Responding to a letter sent from the bipartisan leadership of the House and Senate, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson reiterated his earlier messages about the willingness of his […]

For the past several days, security researcher Brian Krebs has been battling a cyber-attack on a scale unlike any ever previously observed on the internet. Krebs, who writes the security blog Krebs on Security, was on the receiving end of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that delivered connection requests at the rate of nearly 700 […]

A year after we worked with big data analytics company ICG Solutions to see how the contestants were faring in the primary debates, the process started again with the Sept. 26 debate between the two candidates for president of the United States, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. As in the past, we measured […]

The Jet Black iPhone 7 looked virtually seamless as I held it at the T-Mobile store in Manassas, Va. It really was hard to tell where the glass ended and where the gleaming black aluminum case began. But I knew this version of the iPhone wasn’t for me. “That one will scratch too easily,” I […]

The theory of quantum entanglement has been around for over half a century, but until recently this very strange property of some subatomic particles has been difficult to prove. Now experiments are showing it’s a very real phenomenon. Quantum entanglement is a property that allows those particles to share characteristics, so that when they’re put […]

SARATOGA, Calif.—It’s probably impossible to accurately state how many “things” comprise the internet of things (IoT) in enterprises around the world. Even best guesses are almost certainly wrong for the simple reason that until recently no one has even tried to count them. So let’s agree that the number is significant, so large that some […]

NEWS ORLEANS—It was clear when I stood up to speak at the session on big data at the Society for Professional Journalism’s Excellence in Journalism 2016 conference here that I wasn’t addressing your average trade show audience. The hundred or so people in front of me were all professional journalists, which meant that they were […]

Installing a new operating system on your phone is always an adventure. There’s always the question of whether it will work, and if it does, whether the improvements will be worth the effort. In the case of Apple’s iOS 10, there was real concern following reports on Sept. 13, the day the update was released, […]

Uber, the ride-sharing company, has started testing its first four self-driving vehicles in Pittsburgh’s challenging urban streets. Uber chose Pittsburgh as the location of its testing program. Its Advanced Technology Center is located in that city. It’s not a coincidence that Carnegie–Mellon University, a center for some of the most innovative research on artificial intelligence, […]

Just step away from that Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphone, please. Samsung and public safety authorities are warning against charging or even turning on Note7 phones, which have batteries that can explode or burst into flames. But just in case you found out all of this while you were traveling, you’ll also be warned about taking […]

Back in 1972, when I was a young television reporter, a shocking image appeared on the front pages of the world’s newspapers that helped convince many Americans that the nation had to get its military forces out of Vietnam and bring an end to a war that had been going on for more than a […]