Twentieth Century Fox TV is making a change at the top of its current programming department. Comedy exec Carolyn Cassidy has taken the reins from Fox vet Jeffrey Glaser, who is leaving the studio after a 19-year run. “Jeffrey has been an extraordinary contributor to the success of this company, and he will be deeply missed,” said Jonnie Davis, 20th …

Good morning, Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Leahy, and members of the Judiciary Committee. Thank you for the opportunity to testify today about the growing challenges to public safety and national security that have eroded our ability to obtain electronic information and evidence pursuant to a court order or warrant. We in law enforcement often refer to this problem as “Going …

Something I dig about our current tech era is how we’re all enjoying the fruits of a widespread democratization of digital technology (For more on this, check out Steven Kotler’s six tenets of exponential entrepreneurship). The barriers to tech access that once existed have disappeared; anyone can now create their own digital products and services. More important, anyone armed with a …

GODFREY — The latest body shaping technology has come to the only Riverbend location it can be found. The technologically advanced services of Dutch Hollow Medical Day Spa, which has medical director Dr. Samuel Figueroa on site who administers exclusive services such as Botox and Platelet Rich Plasma techniques, now has Venus Freeze. Venus Freeze is a cellulite- and circumferential …

How one designer helped Facebook take a step towards gender equality with one small design tweak Facebook designer Caitlin Winner has taken control of the social network’s icons to try to bring a little balance to the hugely popular service. Have you ever looked closely at the Friends icon on Facebook? Design manager Caitlin Winner certainly did. The Facebook designer …

Airline wifi is not a new idea. Carriers are already offering passengers internet access during their flight, but current systems can be painfully slow. As a result – online streaming services like BBC iPlayer, Netflix and Amazon Prime are restricted. According to Gogo – the most common in-flight wifi provider in the United States, the current technology will max out …

You’ve probably seen an Audio Video Interleave file before and not even known it – it’s commonly abbreviated as “AVI.” AVI files are multimedia files made by Microsoft as part of its “video for Windows” technology. Mostly, this format is used for encoding video that’s playable through Windows Media Player or supported third-party players. If you’re on a Windows machine, …

Telephone connections in India have crossed one-billion mark with mobile phones accounting for around 978 million, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. “In a population of 1.25 billion, we have got 980 million mobile connections, around 978 to be precise. We add 5-7 million new connections every month. Our phone connectivity has crossed one billion,” he said while launching four telecom …

It’s axiomatic that advertising on the Internet is at best a necessary evil. What’s worse, just as the finance industry once vacuumed up the best and brightest from America’s elite colleges, this new source of filthy lucre has proved irresistible to people who might otherwise produce something useful. “Go West, young people, so you can figure out how to optimize …

With large tech companies like Google and Uber circling driverless cars, the conversation has mostly been one of “how soon can we do this?” and not “should we?” Of course, autonomous cars would be cool, but what are the advantages besides the obvious luxury of not needing an error-prone, human hand behind the wheel? Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National …