To understand what’s at stake in the battle between Apple and the F.B.I. over cracking open a terrorist’s smartphone, it helps to be able to predict the future of the tech industry. For that, here’s one bet you’ll never lose money on: Digital technology always grows...
Research firm Kalorama Information says $25 billion EHR market will continue to grow, despite the hits. Kalorama Information says electronic health record systems are here to stay after recent situations in Flint, Michigan and Hollywood Presbyterian in which electronic medical records played key roles in times...
Hot on the heels of Microsoft's Project Oxford, Google is bringing its Cloud Vision API into beta. The offering allows software developers to create new ways of reading faces and emotions to help push the limits of what can be done with AI and machine...
What does it mean to be a good corporate citizen? That’s one of the questions being tested as Apple and the federal government battle over whether Apple should help the Federal Bureau of Investigation unlock an iPhone to gain access to encrypted data that officials say...
Growth spurt in tech jobs: Wisconsin’s information technology economy kept growing in 2015, according to a sneak preview of the latest “Cyberstates” report from CompTIA, the nation’s largest IT industry trade association. The state added 3,885 tech industry jobs – defined by Cyberstates as IT, research...
Researchers will introduce Wanda at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications in April. Dartmouth College researchers claim to have developed a "magic wand" they say will prevent hackers from stealing personal data. They've named the digital tool Wanda. The focus of the work is to secure...
As diagnostic tests rely on ever-tinier amounts of blood, some scientists are striking a note of caution. As it turns out, not every drop of blood is identical. Bioengineers at Rice University recently found that different drops from single fingerpricks on multiple subjects varied substantially on...
Protenus protects data throughout Johns Hopkins Health System, and is in pilot stage with Inova Health System in Virginia and Maryland’s regional HIE. Protenus, a health data protection startup co-founded when the owners were medical students at Johns Hopkins University, has raised $4 million in Series...
Microsoft’s Office suite already has a popular note-taking app with OneNote, but today the company is turning its attention to how note-taking should work on tablets that support stylus and touch-based input. The company has now released Plumbago, a digital notebook application for Windows 8.1...
WASHINGTON — For years, President Obama has struggled to reconcile a civil libertarian’s belief in personal privacy with a commander-in-chief’s imperatives for the nation’s security. This week, security won. The decision by Mr. Obama’s Justice Department to force Apple to help it breach an iPhone used by...