High above Earth where seismic waves never reach, satellites may be able to detect earthquakes–before they strike.
Although earthquakes seem to strike out of the blue, the furious energy that a quake releases builds up for months and years beforehand in the form of stresses within Earth’s crust. At the moment, forecasters have no direct way [...]

The Virginia State Board of Elections had a seemingly simple task before it: Certify an upgrade to the state’s electronic voting machines. But with a recent report by Johns Hopkins University computer scientists warning that the system’s software could easily be hacked into and election results tampered with, the once perfunctory vote now seemed to [...]

The DaVinci Institute has put together an interesting historic piece to help put the world of money technology into perspective. While I’m glad to see the ATM machine made the list, I had no idea it was invented back in 1939. Other items on the list are barcodes, spreadsheets, and RSA encryption. This looks to [...]

XEROX researchers have discovered a method that uses an ordinary printer to insert hologram-like images in common documents.
The company also revealed it was serendipity and proximity that led to the discovery.
Xerox researchers were examining ways to eliminate the problem of uneven glossy patches, called differential gloss, typically considered a defect on a print.
Chu-heng Liu, [...]

A venture capital infusion of $10 million or $20 million, during the late 1990s, served as a kind of pedigree. But today, entrepreneurs are equally proud of financing their start-up on their own, with credit cards and second mortgages.
“Having discipline is really important,” says Phil Sipowicz, chief executive of Everynetwork, an IT services firm in [...]