'This is not rocket science; this is basic hygiene' Simply put, security control considerations were "not really part of some of these early medical devices," said Kevin Fu, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at University of Michigan....
More than 200 years ago, British economist Thomas Robert Malthus famously suggested that the earth would run out of food resources to feed a burgeoning global population. Now, thanks to advances in synthetic biology and genetic engineering, we could soon be talking about exponential increases...
Three common mistakes first-time IT leaders make can freak out staff, get in the way of proving yourself, and ultimately cause you to fail. Here's how to dodge them. In over a decade as a CIO. and decades spent mentoring dozens of growing leaders, I...
Following an 11-year battle, Nicholas Merrill finally gets to publicly talk about the FBI's National Security Letter, which demanded he hand over a wide swath of private information about one of his ISP customers. Nicholas Merrill, founder of a small ISP, disclosed publicly on Monday...
Osaro, a new, San Francisco-based startup that’s developing advanced machine learning known as deep reinforcement learning, has raised $3.3 million in seed funding to take its technology to market. The money comes from Scott Banister, Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures, and Peter Thiel, for whom Osaro...
When we last left off with the two companies hired to fly cargo to the International Space Station their unmanned rockets had exploded, incinerating thousands of pounds of cargo and leaving the astronauts on the orbiting lab in a bit of a lurch. Suddenly, the so-called...
Healthcare IT security: you have a bad reputation. When it gets down to healthcare there’s always a little chuckle about how bad they are This year was among the worst in cybersecurity across the healthcare sector. On average, companies that got breached did not know it for...
As a company grows, individual teams often develop their own project management styles. But when you're trying to scale, having multiple systems can lead to confusion and missed deadlines. So how do you adjust that methodology as you expand? ...
Distraction is always the enemy. Here's one simple technique to maintain focus on what's really important. Busy Work So, if we are going to talk about productivity we need to get one thing straight from the outset; busy does not equate to productive....
WASHINGTON — Bill Gates will announce the creation of a multibillion-dollar clean energy fund on Monday at the opening of a Paris summit meeting intended to forge a global accord to cut planet-warming emissions, according to people with knowledge of the plans. The fund, which one...