Technology/Science
Inside Hackers: $40B Threat for U.S. Employers
Fired from a job as a technology contractor for a Toyota Motor Corp. factory in Kentucky, Ibrahimshah Shahulhameed went home, logged into the company's computer network and attacked it with ...
Good-Bye Windows 8; Microsoft Previewing New Op System Tuesday
Microsoft Corp will unveil a new name for its best-known product on Tuesday when it offers the first official glimpse of its latest Windows operating system. The project, known for the past few years ...
Six Movie and TV Companies Win Drone Use Approval
U.S. aviation regulators loosened restrictions on the commercial use of drones on Thursday, granting six television and movie production companies permission to use the small, remotely piloted ...
RMS Partners With 100RC to Quantify and Manage Natural Hazard Risks
Catastrophe risk management firm RMS has teamed with 100 Resilient Cities—Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) in a partnership that will allow cities in the 100RC network to access the ...
Prop. 103 vs. Self-Driving Cars Revving Up in California
Way back in 1988 it probably seemed like the idea of self-driving vehicles was about as far off as flying cars or hovercraft. That was the year California voters enacted Proposition 103, giving an ...
SAP Agrees to Buy Expense Software Company Concur for $7.3B
Germany's SAP has agreed to buy U.S. expenses software maker Concur for $7.3 billion in cash, strengthening its position in cloud computing, an area it long hoped to avoid until its momentum became ...
Insurance to Cover More than 40% of Home Depot Breach Costs
Home Depot Inc. said a data breach between April and September put about 56 million payment cards at risk, signaling that the hacker attack was bigger than the one that struck Target Corp. last year. ...