Roambee adds $3.1M and a partner to help businesses monitor assets in real-time

roambee Internet of things news in the wake of CES is a bold move, but Roambee isn’t letting the over-saturation of connected everything (hairbrushes!) get in the way of its mission to take the pain out of asset monitoring for businesses. The startup just closed a $3.1 million strategic investment from  Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments and secured a partnership with the group’s… Read More Continue reading Roambee adds $3.1M and a partner to help businesses monitor assets in real-time

A new tool can crack a credit card number in six seconds

Credit Card Payment In what amounts to a very clever brute force attack a group of researchers has figured out how to find credit card information – including expiration dates and CVV numbers – by querying ecommerce sites. The process, which was outlined in IEEE Security & Privacy, involves guessing and testing hundreds of permutations of expiration dates and CVV numbers on hundreds of… Read More Continue reading A new tool can crack a credit card number in six seconds

The True Cost of Your Uber Ride Is Much Higher Than You Think

Investor reports reveal riders only pay 41 percent of the full cost of each ride, with investors footing the remaining 59 percent. Continue reading The True Cost of Your Uber Ride Is Much Higher Than You Think

AWS Snowball Edge offers 100TB of storage and compute functionality

snowball-edge Amazon’s popular Snowball storage container got a major update today at the company’s re:invent conference. Though largely overshadowed by the new batshit crazy AWS Snowmobile, the aforementioned Snowball will be getting a storage increase to 100 terabytes in addition to computing functionality. Users of the new Snowball Edge will be able to perform basic analysis on their data… Read More Continue reading AWS Snowball Edge offers 100TB of storage and compute functionality

Why an ‘Assembled in America’ iPhone Won’t Bring Back Skilled Manufacturing Jobs

It’s going to take a lot more than a trade war with China to stop forces like automation from transforming manufacturing. Continue reading Why an ‘Assembled in America’ iPhone Won’t Bring Back Skilled Manufacturing Jobs

Eliminating Money, Taxes, and Ownership Will Bring Forth Technoutopia

Visiting futurist Jacque Fresco, whose magnum opus is The Venus Project, a 21-acre Central Florida Eden with white dome-shaped buildings that Meadows and he hand built over three and a half decades. Continue reading Eliminating Money, Taxes, and Ownership Will Bring Forth Technoutopia

Why Voters Should Be Concerned About Clinton’s Environmental Promises

A fact check of Clinton’s speeches exposes contradictions between what she says and how she votes. Continue reading Why Voters Should Be Concerned About Clinton’s Environmental Promises