Stress makes us more likely to forget how the other guy feels, which is not good for the modern IT department. If you manage in a group bigger than four or five people, you need to know exactly how stress is going to change the way...
BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. today announced that it has invested a total of $1 million in five additional companies, Dairyvative Technologies LLC, Shine Medical Technologies Inc., Fetch Rewards Inc., Medical Companion LLC (doing business as mPirik), and Keystone Insights Inc. (doing business as Project Foundry)....
Privacy and security researcher Samy Kamkar has released a keylogger for Microsoft wireless keyboards cleverly hidden in what appears to be a rather large, but functioning USB wall charger. Called KeySweeper, the stealthy Arduino-based device can sniff, decrypt, log, and report back all keystrokes —...
Thinkful, the online continuing education services company for programmers and developers, has raised $4.25 million in a new round of funding as it looks to expand its portfolio of education offerings. “We’ve found a away to get a lot of professional engineers excited about helping people...
The Apollo Education Group, parent organization of the University of Phoenix, wanted to modernize its IT operations to support larger-scale online education. As the producer of a pioneer system for working adults, Apollo needed to take greater advantage of digital outreach, or "distance education."...
Wayne Fromm spent roughly a decade hustling to get his camera monopod off the ground. But, the inventor says, he “met resistance.” People just didn’t get the concept of using an extendible pole to shoot photos of themselves. They do now. Last holiday season, shoppers scooped...
A tech start-up called DotCloud was on its last legs in 2012. Now called Docker, its software has been downloaded 70 million times. “It’s exhilarating and it’s frightening,” said Benjamin Golub, Docker’s chief executive. “We are absolutely punching way above our weight class.” Docker is at the...
One school of thought suggests that interoperability between electronic health records systems is not a technological problem, rather it’s a business model and political matter. Regardless, it remains a monster problem that many parties are working to solve, from high-powered policymakers to high-tech entrepreneurs....
"The Web Is Broken!" has become a familiar theme, with apps generally called out as the bogeyman. We're in love with the convenience of apps, spending dramatically more time with apps than our web browser on phones. This won't be without consequence. As the Wall...
Lockheed Martin made several forays into healthcare last year, buying small, specialized companies. But the defense giant’s latest move in this space is its most personal yet. Lockheed and San Diego company Illumina are teaming up to study the human genome — the stuff that makes you...