I’m willing to bet that you probably own a digital still camera.

And you either use that one camera to take both photos and videos, like I do, or you also own a separate digital video camera.

If you’re an advanced user, you may even know how to use digital editing tools to enhance your still images and to edit and add effects to your videos.

But all of that begs the question: [more...]

A technology company has announced that it is going to build a brand new, 20-square-mile town in New Mexico, “to test everything from renewable energy innovations to intelligent traffic systems, next-generation wireless networks and smart-grid cyber security systems.”

“Pegasus Global Holdings CEO Bob Brumley says the $200 million project, known as The Center, will be a first of its kind in the U.S., creating a place for scientists at the [more...]

For decades, science fiction authors have written about a future in which computers are as smart — or even smarter — than humans.

And, for decades, scientists have said that it would take a huge leap in computing technology for a computer to even begin to approach the computational power of a human brain.

That’s because “Inside the brain, information is [more...]

For some, the title of this Journal post conjures up memories of 1950s hot rod cars, often with bodies that were shaped like large bathtubs.

But, for many of us, we’re instantly reminded of tiny toy Hot Wheels cars, running faster than scale 200 mph, jumping over obstacles, and doing loop-the-loops, wherever we had room to set up their bright orange plastic tracks.

Every once in awhile, I [more...]

It’s not big enough to hold any passengers.

In fact, it’s the size of an unmanned military drone.

It can be assembled without tools.

And it can fly, nearly silently, at almost 100 miles per hour. [more...]

If you’re like me, you’ve read about 3D printers.

How they can “print” solid objects.

And you were really impressed with the concept.

But maybe you wondered how they could not only print three-dimensional objects, but print them with [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal already know how I feel about “the cloud.”

How I think it is a throwback to the bad-old-days of mainframes and dumb terminals, when just a few hands had complete control over everyone’s data and all of the available computing power.

How I think that it takes incalculable risks with [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I am a pretty vocal opponent of “the cloud.”

To me, “the cloud” is just a higher-tech throwback to the days of mainframe computers and dumb terminals.

If you’re not old enough to remember them, then you’d be wise to do a little research about what they were and how they worked together to [more...]