By Bill Wasik DALLAS, Texas — A nightstick, a revolver, and a smartphone to check in on Foursquare. That’s the necessary gear of the future beat cop, as envisioned at the SMILE Conference — aka Social Media, the Internet, and [...]
Using millions of Twitter subscribers as living “sensors,” engineers from Rice University and Motorola Mobility have developed a way to monitor fans’ levels of excitement while keeping track of the action in NFL games — without ever switching on a [...]
In the social networking world, Kathleen Hessert is perhaps best known as the Charlotte-based media consultant who taught Shaquille O’Neal how to tweet. She must like hefty projects. Her latest: help teach the U.S. Navy, the Red Cross and the [...]
A slew of good ideas, from high-tech UAVs to just leaving a hose out for firefighters, may help in battling tomorrow’s brush fires. By Sue Russell, Miller-McCune The war being waged against wildfires from Southern California to Greece and Australia [...]
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