If you have ever paid attention in a university engineering lecture, you will notice there are always interesting things going on. By "interesting", I really do not mean what the professor is talking about -- honestly, deriving equations and solving them is of little interest to most people. What I do mean are the interactions between students. A few years ago, I was in a first year C++ programming class, and I overheard one female student...
As a lab teaching assistant for first year undergraduate students in engineering, I occasionally get really interesting questions. In fact, I was asked a really good question during an electrical circuits lab a few weeks ago. The lab itself was pretty easy. Students just needed to build a bunch of simple circuits using only resistors. A guy came to me and asked, "Can you explain to me how a digital watch’s circuit works?" I found it was extremely...
From InfoWorld: Uber Technologies has agreed to provide next month its diversity data, which it had earlier declined to make public.
Representatives of the ride hailing company will disclose the information at the PUSHTech2020 summit on April 19 in Silicon Valley.
The move comes at a time when the...
From PC World: Twitter has started surveying users to check their interest in a new enhanced version of its TweetDeck product, raising the possibility that the company is considering a paid version of its service.
The move by Twitter comes in the wake of its almost flat revenue growth and a...
From CNET: If you use Google's G Suite apps and Mozilla's Firefox browser, good news: The two are going to get along much better.
The G Suite tools for word processing, spreadsheets, Gmail and other chores have worked better on Google's Chrome than on rival browsers in one important way: You can...
From InfoWorld: Heads up, those of you who had problems with last week’s botched security patches, which clobbered Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and CRM 2013 OnPremises reports; Telerik RadListBox and RadWindow controls; and various IE compatibility modes. A slew of patches appeared late last night...
From PC World: Apple has acquired the Workflow automation app, which allows iOS users to trigger a sequence of tasks across apps with a single tap.
A spokesman for Apple confirmed on Wednesday the company’s acquisition of DeskConnect, the developer of the app, and the Workflow app, but did not...
From InfoWorld: I reported earlier this morning that we're seeing "Unsupported hardware" and "Windows could not search for new updates" messages from people who are running Windows 7 and 8.1 on Intel Kaby Lake and AMD Rizen-based computers. It's part of Microsoft's long-threatened ban on Win7 and 8...
From CNET: ZTE has agreed to pay up to $1.2 billion in fines as part of a guilty plea to violating sanctions prohibiting sales of US technology to Iran.
The Chinese telecommunications equipment maker agreed to pay $892 million in fines and forfeitures for violating the International Emergency...
From CNET: LG Electronics wants a chunk of the meaty mobile-payment market that is estimated to reach $780 billion worldwide this year.
The South Korean company told CNET on Wednesday that it will roll out its new mobile payment service via its LG G6 flagship smartphones in South Korea in the third...
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