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IBM said Wednesday that Sony Corporation and Sony Global Education, a subsidiary of Sony that works to provide global educational services, have developed a new blockchain-based student education records platform.
With the solution, school administrators can consolidate and manage students' educational data from several schools, as well as record and...
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced the Coco Framework, "a first-of-its-kind innovation" that will advance enterprise adoption of blockchain technology.
Current blockchain protocol technology requires complicated development techniques to meet the operational and security needs of enterprises. The Coco Framework reduces this complexity, and when integrated with blockchain networks addresses critical...
With the recent completion of the acquisition of collision avoidance system company Mobileye, Intel has announced its intention to start building a fleet of fully autonomous (level 4 SAE) vehicles for testing in the United States, Israel and Europe.
The first vehicles will be deployed later this year, and the...
Blockchain technology company The Bitfury Group said Friday it is collaborating with Insilico Medicine, Inc., a Baltimore-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) and bioinformatics company, to develop "novel" solutions for healthcare applications using Blockchain technology.
Both companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate in academic and commercial settings to develop...
U.S. Representative Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) last week introduced the Drone Operator Safety Act, a bill to help protect American air traffic from the misuse of drones.
The bill would make it a criminal offense to fly a drone in a way that poses a safety...
Toyota Motor Corporation and Mazda Motor Corporation said Friday they are partnering to establish a joint venture that produces vehicles in the United States. They also plan to jointly develop technologies for electric vehicles, jointly develop connected-car technology, collaborate on advanced safety technologies, and expand complementary products.
The companies have...
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Virtru is Like a Spell Check for Security: We Take Privacy Very Seriously – Virtru CEO
John Ackerly is the cofounder, CEO of Virtru Corporation. He spent the earlier part of his career working as the lead policy adviser on technology issues at the White House, and Policy Director at the Department of Commerce. Ackerly...
There is a Powerful Argument to be Made for Ransomware as The Top Threat of 2016 – Protenus
Protenus’ Robert Lord talks about the unique challenges of providing healthcare-specific cybersecurity/privacy solutions.
Connected Medical Devices
We are currently facing a crises in a wide array of issues concerning cybersecurity, including network security, insider threat and ransomware – but IoT is...
IoT is in its Early Stages: It’s Hard to Standardize Something That’s Evolving Daily – Cisco
IoT offers exciting possibilities, but recently, the focus has been on the problems associated with this technology. Security is the biggest issue, but other challenges include interoperability and connectivity. Marc Blackmer is a contributor to the recently published Industrial...
Management and Control of Data a Key Inhibitor to Federal Cloud Adoption – NetApp
Tight budgets and the need for greater flexibility and agility in government IT has led to a rise in cloud adoption. Even so, the general atmosphere is that of testing the waters, with most government agencies preferring to take...
Exclusive: The Consensus is That FedRAMP is Broken and Confidence Lost – Avnet
Government cloud adoption is definitely showing an upward trend as federal, state and local agencies hampered by limited resources and bogged down by regulations see the cloud as a viable solution for increased agility, productivity and flexibility. Security remains...
Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Protect Aircraft from Drones
U.S. Representative Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) last week introduced the Drone Operator Safety Act, a bill to help protect American...
Dell, Rackspace Collaborate to Sell ‘Cheaper’ Private Cloud
Cloud hosting company Rackspace said Monday it has partnered with Dell EMC to offer what it termed an “easy-to-consume private cloud as-a-service offering” service...
Cybersecurity
NIST Publishes Cybersecurity Workforce Framework
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) has published Special Publication 800-181, the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework,...
IBM, Sony Partner on Blockchain-Based Education Data Management System
IBM said Wednesday that Sony Corporation and Sony Global Education, a subsidiary of Sony that works to provide global educational services, have developed a...
Microsoft Announces CoCo Framework to Advance Enterprise Adoption of Blockchain Tech
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced the Coco Framework, "a first-of-its-kind innovation" that will advance enterprise adoption of blockchain technology.
Current blockchain protocol technology requires complicated...
Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Protect Aircraft from Drones
U.S. Representative Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) last week introduced the Drone Operator Safety Act, a bill to help protect American...
UK Government Issues Cybersecurity Guidance for Autonomous Vehicles
The British government has unveiled new government guidance which it says will ensure engineers developing smart vehicles will apply tougher cyber protections in their...
Hurd Introduces Smart Wall Legislation
U.S. Representative Will Hurd (R-TX) last week introduced the Secure Miles with All Resources and Technology (SMART) Act. Representatives Henry Cuellar (D-TX), David...
Senators Introduce Long Overdue Bill to Improve Security of IoT Devices
U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Cory Gardner (R-CO), co-chairs of the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus, along with Sens. Ron Wyden (D-WA) and Steve...
New Industry Group to Improve Interoperability for Smart City Solutions
NEC Corporation said today that NEC Laboratories Europe is one of five members of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) who have initiated a...
WhatsApp Nets More Than One Billion Daily Users
Messaging app WhatsApp now averages more than one billion daily users each day, according to parent company Facebook. Facebook made this revelation in its...
Tech Firms Urge FCC to Shelve Plans to Reverse Net Neutrality...
The Internet Association, a group representing major tech firms including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, on Monday urged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...
London-Based Startup Blockchain Receives $40M in VC Funding – Largest Series...
London-based startup Blockchain, a leading software platform for digital assets, announced last week that they have raised a Series B of $40 million with...
Phillips Lighting Debuts ‘World’s First’ Autonomous Indoor Drone
Philips Lighting, a provider of lighting solutions, announced on Friday what it called “the first application” of an autonomous, indoor drone that uses Visible...
AIRWAVES Act to Expedite Introduction of High Speed Wireless to Rural Areas
Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) on Tuesday introduced the Advancing Innovation and Reinvigorating Widespread Access to Viable Electromagnetic Spectrum (AIRWAVES) Act,...
Waymo Patents Self-Driving Vehicles With Adjustable Rigidity
Autonomous car development company Waymo plans to design autonomous vehicles with less severe impacts in the event of a crash. According to Waymo, the...
DARPA Awards Rocket Crafters Contract to Develop 3D-Printed Rocket Engine
Rocket Crafters, Inc. (RCI) announced Wednesday it has been awarded a $542,600 research contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Under the terms of the agreement, RCI is tasked to build and test a large-scale hybrid rocket engine...
Airbus Standardizes on Stratasys 3D Printing Material to Produce Flight Parts for its A350 XWB Aircraft
Stratasys, a 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions company, said Thursday that leading aircraft manufacturer Airbus has standardized on its ULTEM 9085 3D printing material for the production of flight parts for its A350 XWB aircraft.
“In 2014 Airbus produced...
ASTM International, ISO Unveil Global Additive Manufacturing Standards Framework
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and ASTM International said last week they have jointly crafted the Additive Manufacturing Standards Development Structure, a framework which they say will help meet the needs for new technical standards in this fast-growing...
IBM, Google and Lyft Launch Open Source Microservices Management Platform, Istio
Google, IBM, and Lyft on Wednesday announced the first public release of Istio, an open source project that provides a uniform way to connect, secure, manage and monitor microservices.
Istio adds traffic management to microservices and creates a basis for...
Gender Bias Exists in Open-Source Programming – Study
A paper presented the outcome of a large scale study on gender bias, by comparing the acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community.
The paper, Gender Differences and Bias in Open Source:...
Google Consolidates Open Source Projects in One Place
Google Wednesday launched opensource.google.com, a new website for its open source projects which the company says ties together all its initiatives with information on how it uses, releases and supports open source.
The new site will include a comprehensive list...
Apteligent Open-Sources Its Xamarin SDK to Enable .NET Developers Build Native Apps
Apteligent, a provider of analytics and mobile business insights, said Thursday it has decided to open source its Xamarin component. Xamarin, which was purchased by Microsoft about a year ago, enables .NET developers to build native apps.
Apteligent offers a...
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Publishes Source Code on Github
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published source code on Github for a sample application enabling a user to access and track the status of a trademark. This is an offshoot of the new Federal Source Code Policy,...
ROMAD’s Genetic Sequencing of Malware Families Offers Unique Prevention and Detection Capabilities
Igor Volovich, the CEO and Co-Founder of ROMAD Cyber Systems talks about enabling genetic sequencing of entire malware families to deny cybercriminals the ability to exploit...
ABB Eyes IIoT Expansion With Acquisition of Keymile’s Business Portfolio
Electric technology company ABB said Monday it has agreed to acquire the mission-critical communication business...
Democratic Senators Urge Trump Administration to Protect U.S. Energy Infrastructure From Cyberattacks
A group of Democratic Senators on Thursday wrote President Donald Trump and the Department of...
Itron Delves Into Demand Response With $100M Comverge Acquisition
Smart grid and AMI technology firm Itron said Monday that it has signed a definitive...
Toyota to Invest $35 Million in Research to Develop Advanced Materials With AI, Machine Learning
The Toyota Research Institute (TRI), a subsidiary of Toyota Motor North America, said Thursday it...
BAE Systems to Develop Tech to Quickly Restore Power After a Cyberattack on Grid
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems an $8.6 million...
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