Accidentally severed fiber optic cables have taken down Viriginia’s voter registration website. | Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images Another state’s voter registration website has technical difficulties.
In what is fast becoming a pattern...
Even when leaders proclaim in their townhalls that your organization needs to be more agile and nimble, they can’t mandate it. Your CIO and IT leaders may standardize on practices, metrics, and responsibilities that they describe as agile methodology...
Flight crew members walk past thermal cameras that check passengers' body temperatures at Los Angeles International Airport on June 23. As businesses look to reopen, technology firms are offering an array of...
Amazon's Fire tablets and Echo speakers aren't terribly expensive—they're built to be affordable. Still, Prime Day gives you a chance to buy them for even less. If you need a tablet or want to add Alexa to your house,...
Executive Summary There’s an iconic scene in the classic movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the HAL 9000 computer comes to its own decisions that conflict with astronauts on a mission. It’s a powerful and eerie image of humanity being...
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are making the biggest electoral bet of their careers to date. | Courtesy of The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative The billionaire Facebook founder is making the most expensive electoral play of his career....
Years ago, Google struggled with how to pitch its cloud offerings. Back in 2017 I suggested that the company should help mainstream enterprises to “run like Google,” but in a conversation with a senior Google Cloud product executive, he suggested...
In a clean room in Building 23 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, a spacecraft called DART was splayed open like a fractured, cubic egg. An instrument called a star tracker—which will, once...
Safety concerns over automated driver-assistance systems like Tesla's usually focus on what the car can't see, like the white side of a truck that one Tesla confused with a bright sky in 2016, leading to the death of a...
With an unprecedented number of Americans voting by mail this year, it may take longer than normal for results to come in this Election Day—including even unofficial results. Yet President Donald Trump’s disinformation campaign about election security continues to...


















