Strava, a social networking app for tracking one's workouts, serves a great purpose in tracking activity and comparing it to friends, but the platform revealed a major security issue over the weekend when it released a heatmap of a billion 2017 user workouts, and in the process revealed several classified military bases that users had jogged around.  These bases, in Turkey, Syria, and Yemen weren't the only sensitive locations shown - other installations from Russia, China, and Taiwan popped up too.  However, the demographics of the app lean heavily western, young, and active, which means i

Amazon, the purveyor of your impulse purchases with two day shipping, today opened a new brick and mortar store that's the first of its kind.  The store, named Amazon Go, sells groceries alongside prepared food items, but what makes this store unique is that there is no checkstands.  In the Seattle store, buyers simply toss their items in a bag and head on their way, via Amazon's "just walk out technology".  Visitors simply check in at the entrance via their smartphone at subway-style gates, then the store's army of overhead cameras and sensors take over - tracking shoppers and the items th

Everyone knows the drudgery of having to change their passwords - capital letter here, number there, and oh, I have to include a special character now?  I'm not going to remember that.

Recognizing an opportunity to teach scouts real-world skills, the Girl Scouts of the USA has recently partnered with Palo Alto Networks to develop a program consisting of 18 earnable badges to teach scouts cybersecurity skills.  Girl Scout badges are insignia awarded to scouts once they have completed requirements to develop mastery of a given topic - and the number of possible badges available across all levels of scouts numbers in the hundreds.

John Deere, the ubiquitous name in farming equipment, isn't just your granpa's tractor anymore.  Though the company has enjoyed popularity throughout its 180-year history, it still has had to innovate to stay at the lead of the pack.  A recent story in Network World explores the technological advancements they've added to their products - essentially adding brains to the brawn.

Bahrain-based Gulf Air recently completed a major overhaul of its storage and server systems with the help of Dell EMC, as reported by Computer Weekly.  The project involved many parts - cloud storage, scalable storage area network upgrades, local area network upgrades, and hardware updates as well as all of the connections between.

In an April 7 press release, Dell EMC announced their sponsorship of JTG Daugherty Racing, a two-car team in NASCAR series events.  This announcement is notable not only because it is the first time Dell EMC has sponsored a NASCAR team, but it also comes with a technology partnership.  Dell EMC is working with JTG Daugherty to implement their technology throughout the race experience; on the car, on the track, and also in the shop.  This tech includes Dell IoT, client solutions, and enterprise software to manage operations of the team.