Apr 19, 2019 | Radio Show
NYC Wireless Network Down Due To Y2K-Like Software Bug City Hall’ s tech czar ignored a federal warning about a looming, Y2K-like software bug last year — allowing a crash of the city’s official wireless network that has been down since the weekend, sources told The...
Apr 19, 2019 | Radio Show
Here’s How Much Your Tax Info Is Worth On The Dark Web As Americans across the U.S. prepare to file their tax returns and pay any money owing by Monday’s deadline, cybercriminals have been patiently awaiting their opportunity to steal from them. Not only are tax...
Apr 19, 2019 | Radio Show
5-Star Phonies: Inside The Fake Amazon Review Complex “Isn’t this illegal?” I found myself typing one Tuesday night at 1:15 AM. I was chatting with Lien Xi, an Amazon seller from Guangzhou, China, I’d met several minutes before in a private Facebook group. She’d...
Apr 13, 2019 | Radio Show
Your Car Is Watching You. Who Owns The Data? If you’re driving a late model car or truck, chances are that the vehicle is mostly computers on wheels, collecting and wirelessly transmitting vast quantities of data to the car manufacturer not just on vehicle performance...
Apr 13, 2019 | Radio Show
3 Technologies That Could Create Trillion-Dollar Markets Over The Next Decade Go back to the typical household in 1950, and you would see much that you would recognize: washing machines, vacuum cleaners, cars, TVs. But go back 50 years earlier, to 1900, and most of us...
Apr 13, 2019 | Radio Show
Are We Living In A Simulation? This MIT Scientist Says It’s More Likely Than Not What if I told you that physical reality is an illusion and we all live in a computer simulation? That hypothesis, famously probed in the 1999 film The Matrix, is the subject of a new...
