Wayne Rash

About

Wayne Rash is a content writer and editor with a 35-year history covering technology. He’s a frequent speaker on business, technology issues and enterprise computing. He is the author of five books, including his most recent, "Politics on the Nets." Rash is a former Executive Editor of eWEEK and a former analyst in the eWEEK Test Center. He was also an analyst in the InfoWorld Test Center and editor of InternetWeek. He's a retired naval officer, a former principal at American Management Systems and a long-time columnist for Byte Magazine.

Amazon Resists Warrant for Echo Digital Assistant User Transcripts

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 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 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 […]

Uber’s Self-Driving Car Service Has Come a Long Way Remarkably Fast

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 […]

Lenovo Yoga X1 Ultrabook Design Boasts Flexibility, Versatility

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 […]

Samsung to Send Out Note7 Software Update to Totally Disable Charging

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, […]

Amazon Go Won’t Kill Many Jobs, But It May Prove a Boon to Crooks

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 […]

Fake News Brings Life-Threatening Consequences in National Capital

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, […]

MAD Concept of Deterrence Doesn’t Apply in World of Cyber War

PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The next world war may have already started, but the chances are that you may not have noticed it. That’s because the new world of cyber warfare is taking place out of sight in places that only the initiated can see. Even then, it’s not always clear who the participants are. Nor […]

Apple Must Make iPhone 8 Fine Enough to Drive a ‘Super Sales Cycle’

The next iPhone, which might be the iPhone 8 or perhaps the iPhone 7s, may well be the best selling iPhone ever, according to a number of analyst reports, particularly Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, who mobile market reports are widely read. Kuo is predicting the existence of what analysts are calling a “super cycle” […]