Myo wearable controls everything from robots to smart home devices
By Teena Hammond From Tech Republic The Myo gesture-control armband eliminates the need for a keyboard or mouse in many instances. It will go on sale on Amazon by March. Myo, the gesture-control armband from Thalmic Labs, debuted at last…
Six cool new wearable tech devices
By Teena Hammond From Tech Republic CES Unveiled 2015 featured a range of new wearable tech including a device to help patients manage chronic pain, GPS trackers for kids and a disposable adhesive heart rate monitor. At CES Unveiled 2015,…
Rideye is a black box video camera for bikes
By Sara Afzal From Mashable UPDATE: Rideye cameras will now feature twice the video history— 2.5 hours instead of the original 1.25 hours. The campaign is on track to hit quantities much higher than originally anticipated, which allows the purchase…
Air-powered Lego car is ultimate nerd invention
By Sam Laird From Mashable If a life-sized Lego car that actually drives and is powered by nothing but air doesn’t sound cool enough, consider this: The project was funded in part through a single tweet. The car runs on…
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Several dead, missing after minibus plunges into sea in St. Vincent By SNO Staff – Monday, January 12th, 2015 at 10:38 AM Three people are reported missing after a minibus carrying several passengers, including students, plunged into the sea in…
US Centcom Twitter account hacked by pro-IS group
From BBC The Twitter and YouTube accounts of the US military command were suspended for a few hours after being hacked by a group claiming to back Islamic State. One message on Centcom’s Twitter feed said: “American soldiers, we are coming,…
Presenting the Best of CES 2015 winners!
By Mat Smith From engadget One week in Vegas, several halls filled with tech, but only one official Best of CES Awards. After a few tortuous nights of shouting at each other, debating the merits of each of our finalists,…
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Militants planning mass casualty attacks against West: UK From Business Insider London (AFP) – The head of Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 warned on Thursday that militant Islamists in Syria were planning “mass casualty attacks” in the West and that…
Whitelisting has its place in your company’s antimalware arsenal
By Michael Kassner From TechRepublic First opinions give deep impressions. However, it might be time to give application whitelisting another try since not much else is defeating malware and digital exploits. I recently wrote about how anomaly detection appears to…
Intelsat serves Latin America from its Gables office
By Joseph A. Mann Jr.Special To The Miami Herald Intelsat, the world’s largest provider of commercial satellite services, has an important regional office in Coral Gables. Operating 50-plus communications satellites that cover more than 99 percent of the world’s populated…