Wayne Rash

When I talk with potential voters about election security, the most common fear is that someone, probably the Russians, will hack their local election board and change votes. That’s actually an unlikely scenario. While a foreign power probably could hack the voting data in your city or county, they’re not going to do it. The […]

Apple announced four new iPhone 12 smartphones on Oct. 13. The event was about a month later than Apple’s usual mid-September iPhone announcement due to delays related to Covid-19.  The four new phones consisted of two iPhone 12 models and two iPhone 12 Pro models. The Pro models, as has been the case in the […]

Figuring out what voters think during an election year is at best an imperfect art. While there’s plenty of polling during such times, the results of that polling can be inaccurate, as was demonstrated during the 2016 election when Donald Trump won, despite polls saying he wouldn’t. At that time, sentiment analysis was in its […]

Apple launches a new version of its iOS iPhone operating system every September, along with companion versions for the iPad and Apple Watch. Normally these new versions have some important features that expand on the capabilities of the operating software. But for 2020, things changed. The new version of iOS contained some significant changes, and […]

The FBI charging document reads like a well-crafted spy novel. According to the filing, an alleged member of a Russian crime syndicate, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, entered the United States in late July. His goal was to make contact with an employee of Tesla and to convince that employee to insert ransomware into the company’s industrial […]

The last time eWEEK looked at the role of computing in Formula 1 racing, a very lucky Chris Preimesberger visited the headquarters of Ferrari in Maranello, Italy. What he found there, in addition to some drool-worthy race cars, was a data center the size of a house with ten racks of equipment, power conditioning and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressional hearings about major technology companies have been going on for years. Most of the time the hearings have revealed that members of Congress know little about the issues relating to the technology business, and as a result the hearings were ineffectual and the outcome predictable. This year was different. For the […]

AT&T has announced that its 5G network is now available nationwide. AT&T is now the second U.S. wireless carrier to achieve nationwide coverage, following T-Mobile, which accomplished that on Dec. 2, 2019. Like T-Mobile, AT&T is deploying its low-band technology that uses 850 MHz to reach larger portions of the U.S. that the company can […]

When you’re looking for a new laptop for your business, the first thing you’ll notice is that the selection of laptop computers is enormous. But not all laptops are suitable for business. Many laptops are built more for home use so children can do schoolwork on the dining room table. While some of those computers […]

When I wrote about 6GHz WiFi 6 a couple of months ago, it was already clear that wireless communications in the office were about to change dramatically. With WiFi 6, speeds would be up, latency would be down and familiar limitations of WiFi would vanish. The relatively fallow ground of 6GHz meant that compromises due […]