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It won’t be a superstar football player who takes the first kick of 2014’s Football World Cup in Brazil. Nope, instead, it will be a teenager, paralysed from the waist down, who will use the world’s most advanced mind-controlled exoskeleton to get things underway. A small part of a large-scale international collaborative project called Walk Continue Reading →

Facebook is a great way to stay in contact with family and friends, and to kill some time by playing a few levels in Candy Crush. But if you’ve come to the point where Facebook is more of a burden than a blessing, permanently deleting your account is pretty easy. Here’s how to get rid Continue Reading →

As a leader, it’s important to position your professional identity for success in 2014. This checklist is designed to help you make the most of your public professional identity. 1. Readdress “who you are” now. While it’s tempting to use the same personal “about me” paragraph that you’ve had for years, take a step back Continue Reading →

Wearing Google Glass could be an issue for users that don’t have 20/20 vision, but it’s looking like this problem is being handled. Rochester Optical has made prescription lenses for the wearable tech that are said to come in all sorts of styles, cost as low as $99, and debut in as soon as two Continue Reading →

More than 2.1 million people have enrolled in private health insurance plans through new federal and state websites since they were launched in October as part of President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. While short of the 3.3 million enrollees that the Obama administration was hoping for by now, the number Continue Reading →

In September, Google acquired the mobile contact and file-sharing service Bump, but said that there weren’t any plans to shutter the company. Well now three months later, things have changed. In a blog post, company CEO and co-founder David Lieb announced that Bump and its second product Flock will be shutting down on January 31, Continue Reading →

Last week security researchers published a way to skim Snapchat’s full database, and it appears someone did it before the vulnerability — which, according to those researchers had been known for months — was addressed. A website called SnapchatDB! has appeared posting SQL/CSV files that it claims contain the username and associated phone number for Continue Reading →

The government’s right to search travelers’ electronic devices at the border was upheld in a ruling released by a federal judge on Tuesday, which dismissed a lawsuit challenging this policy. In his opinion, Judge Edward R. Korman of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York found that the plaintiffs did not Continue Reading →

If you want a true “out of the box 3D printing experience,” you’ve come to the right place. Afinia has been offering specialty printing solutions since 2009, alongside best-in-class support and accessible prices. Couple that with a parent company with 25 years in the business and you have a great pedigree and great products. When Continue Reading →

No matter where you connect to the internet, you can thank Cisco for helping make that experience possible. Cisco has shaped the future of the internet, and the concept of solutions being driven to address specific customer challenges has been with Cisco since its inception all the way back in 1984. Cisco’s recently acquired JouleX Continue Reading →