Technology Futures

A computer security degree can lead to an exciting, challenging and rewarding career. This page tell you more about studying these degrees and will help you to locate suitable schools and programs.

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We were excited to see Google Now finally make its way to iOS, but it didn't come without problems. Many users report excessive battery drain due to location reporting. Fortunately, Cult of Mac offers a solution.

The IT industry expects to expand and grow for many years to come. This growth needs computer software engineers, network administrators, network programmers, and more. 

Online IT programs provide the skills for this challenging field. This page has details of the programs, the schools, the career prospects, salaries and more ...

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US scientists have created a tiny winged robot that can fly.

To get a fly-sized drone off the ground, the scientists have had to overcome issues of weight, aerodynamics of wing flapping, power supply, and figuring out how to manufacture a robot half the size of a paperclip.

"This is the culmination of over a decade of work I've been trying to do to get this result," says Professor Robert Wood, who runs a lab at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

"This is the first demonstration that you can make insect-like robots and control them in flight."

Wood and colleagues publish their findings in today's issue of Science .

Read more at: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/05/03/3751356.htm

Technology can play a pivotal role in helping an organization to outshine competitors and have an impact on every area of the organization. 

A technology management program will prepare you for a rewarding career at the forefront of organizational change. This page provides more details.

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Twitter updated Twitter for Mac Thursday, bringing a number of improvements to the Mac version of the app.

Most notably, the update improves photo sharing. Now to add a photo to a tweet, you can simply click on the camera icon in the lower-left corner of the box where you’re composing your tweet, and add a photo from your computer. An operation that works much like the experience on Twitter's mobile apps.

Acer is holding an event on May 3 called "Redefining the computing experience." What's in store is anyone's guess, but the company is hoping to capitalize on the hype for the upcoming movie Star Trek: Into Darkness to generate interest in its new products via this ad.

What will the product be? Clearly, it's a Windows 8 laptop of some kind, although not like any we've ever seen yet — and that's saying something. The hybrid has display attached to an arm, which gives the screen another degree of freedom in its motion — allowing it to extend away from the keyboard similar to a standalone monitor.

 Read more at: http://mashable.com/2013/04/22/acer-star-trek-ad/

What if you could print your own solar panels?

The researchers at Australia's Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) — a collaboration between the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the University of Melbourne, Monash University and industry partners — have managed to print photovoltaic cells the size of an A3 sheet of paper.

Samsung has developed a new mobile data transfer technology that's potentially up to "several hundred times" faster than current 4G networks. More precisely, the company announced "the world’s first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimeter-wave Ka bands for cellular communications."

Samsung says the technology "sits at the core" of a 5G mobile communications system, and it can say that with relative ease, as 5G (unlike LTE or 4G) is currently not a defined set of standards — more a vague idea of whatever comes next after 4G.

Read more at: http://mashable.com/2013/05/13/samsung-5g/

There’s an invisible bubble that surrounds us. Everything inside that bubble is “me.” Everything outside that bubble is “not me.”

Clothing, glasses, jewelry, medical devices, tattoos, hearing aids and other such things are products you buy. But when you wear them, they’re inside the “me” bubble. They’re part of who and what we are.

Smartphones are compelling in part because they exist right at the surface of that bubble. They’re both “me” and “not me” at the same time.

Wearable computing is about bringing the Internet fully inside the “me” bubble.

Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/227050/how-wearable-computing-will-change-everything-including-apple/#EjbKFuKbiMPG8OpL.99 

It should be an easy time for laptop buyers, but the market is still pretty confusing and frustrating. Walt Mossberg offers his guide to buying a new laptop. His number one tip for Windows 8 laptop shopping: "Wait, if you can." 

Read more at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324482504578454854284679888.html

Concentrations of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere will surpass 400 parts per million in the next month. Nations could have a hard time keeping global warming in check at that level

Corinne Le Quéré, a climate researcher at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, says that the impact “is getting very dangerously close to reaching the 2 °C target that governments around the world have pledged not to exceed”.

Read more at: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=global-co2-levels-approach-worriesome-milestone

In an effort to be a safer driver, many people, myself included, have started using voice-to-text mobile apps like Siri to keep two hands on the steering wheel.

However, a new study by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute finds using voice-to-text apps to send and receive text messages while driving don't increase driver safety.

Christine Yager, who headed up the research, tells Mashable there were no distinguishable differences between manual texters and voice texters.

A Japanese entrepreneur is bringing to market a headset called Telepathy, a knock-off of sorts of Google Glass.

Tokyo-based entrepreneur Takahito Iguchi, pictured above, has created a wearable computing device called Telepathy One and — with a built-in camera, a micro-projection screen and a sleek, wraparound design — the gadget looks to be a cheaper alternative to Google's upcoming launch.

Read more at: http://mashable.com/2013/04/24/telepathy/

So you thought a Terminator-like future of metal machines mowing each other down on battlefields sounded pretty cool, did you?

Well, wipe that smile off your face, fleshy one. Killer robots are a real threat to our future and must be outlawed now, according to a campaign launched in London on Tuesday by five international NGOs, led by Human Rights Watch.