Wayne Rash

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 […]

The fact that Apple decided to eliminate the time-honored 3.5 millimeter headphone jack from the design of the iPhone 7 wasn’t a surprise, if only because for months rumors had been saying this would happen. But the advance warning didn’t make the reality of the decision any less controversial, nor did it help make dubious […]

Apple has made some bold changes to the latest iteration of the iPhone, but, to the relief of most business users, it has retained a pathway to their legacy infrastructure. Of course, the new iPhone 7 is faster than earlier iPhones models, has more memory and it includes important improvements users have wanted for years. […]

The video on YouTube was hauntingly familiar. A charred case and broken glass on what was once a smartphone made it clear that something terrible had happened. The video narrator explained that the charred phone was once a Samsung Galaxy Note7, which had spontaneously burned while the owner wasn’t looking. Samsung executives saw that video […]

The White House has ordered a little-known investigative group to examine the implications of a series of cyber-attacks by suspected Russian hackers against U.S. election data systems. The attacks include breaches of a voter database used by the Democratic National Committee and voter registration sites in Illinois and Arizona. The group, known as the Foreign […]

A variety of press reports indicate that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into intrusions at the voter registration offices of two states during July and August. The two states are Illinois, where the voter registration system was taken offline for two weeks in July, and Arizona, where the voter registration network was down […]

Two weeks from now, you’ll know what Apple has in mind for its next iPhone. If current media reports hold true, you’ll be able to plan for the slightly thinner case, the improved processor power and the fact that some important business accessories may not work with it. Of course, we don’t know what the […]