The Research Triangle Park (RTP) located in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area of North Carolina is home to number of tech companies and a growing cybersecurity community. This location closed out the October cybersecurity awareness month with a bang! Two conferences back to back with a goal to educate the community. First, BSides RDU wasContinue Reading
Hurricane Maria has pummeled Puerto Rico over the past week, knocking out power for the entire island. The island’s calls for help have been answered by an unlikely source…hackers. Several data security companies and hacker conferences have started collecting money and supplies for Puerto Rico. These are the good hackers,Continue Reading
Typically during summer, families take exotic trips or trips around the country with their families for pleasure. What would your reaction be if your parents told you that you would be taking a 20 day trip around the country, not exactly for site seeing, but to be doing chores? DespiteContinue Reading
It’s called “Project Loon”, as in balloon. This involves launching solar and wind powered balloons into the stratosphere. These special balloons communicate with control devices and Internet providers on the ground to deliver Internet to remote areas that are not “connected”. In the stratosphere, winds carry these balloons over aContinue Reading
Imagine being able to charge your phone in 20 seconds. Or having a battery that can survive 10,000 charges compared to today’s 1,000 charges per battery. This is all a reality now because of 18 year old Eesha Khare, a high school student in Saratoga, CA. She created her inventionContinue Reading
Smiles are contagious, especially on social media. Psychologists and neuroscientists have discovered that Good News spreads the fastest by scanning people’s brains and monitoring their emails and social media posts. “…when you share a story with your friends and peers, you care a lot more how they react. You don’tContinue Reading
Great news for you technology enthusiasts! It’s that time of the year again – The 9th annual CarolinaCon starts this Friday, March 15, 2013 at 7PM! It’s a data security and technology education conference in Raleigh, NC. This awesome conference is put on by a non-profit called “The CarolinaCon Group”Continue Reading
In a major language science breakthrough, computers are showing that they may be able to recover lost languages. Previously, computers were only used to save languages as they were at risk of being lost. The computers would record fragments of the language from the remaining speakers in order to helpContinue Reading
Teachers in PS 177 high school in Queens, NY were struggling to find a way to help students with learning disabilities focus and advance in school. Most of the kids in the special ed classes are autistic and the normal curricula did not help them. Adam Goldberg, a teacher atContinue Reading
A couple weeks after Hurricane Sandy, most households in the northeast finally had power again. Although power was up, Internet access was still sparse in many areas. This is where a team of special individuals came to the rescue. Joe and Debbie Hillis drove 1,600 miles from Saginaw, Texas withContinue Reading