FOX on Tech
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Tech Giant Goes For A Deep Dive
March 17, 2021 23:00 - 1 minuteA pilot program from Microsoft shows that underwater data centers might become commonplace in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tesla trades its CEO for a "King"
March 16, 2021 23:00 - 1 minuteTesla's business model is a little different than most companies, and now their leadership titles are following suit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Robot Security Guard Protects Vegas Apartments
March 15, 2021 23:00 - 1 minuteA growing trend across the country - apartment complexes and businesses trading human security guards for robots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fox on Tech Trailer
March 09, 2021 20:08 - 1 minuteLaunches on March 15, 2021. Subscribe and follow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Using Smartphones to Verify Who We Are
August 23, 2017 17:35 - 212 BytesWe use our smartphones to do most things, talk, text, even listen to music. Why not use it to verify who we are? A new study says many people would be on board with that. It would still involve showing a photo: (Mikell) "But your mobile drivers license could simply say that you're over the age of 21 versus showing your exact birth date." Rob Mikell is with Morpho-Trust, which commissioned the study that found well more than half of respondents would go for having a mobile driver's license app...
Teens Invent App to Prevent Drunk Driving
May 15, 2017 19:05 - 212 BytesSome Colorado teenagers have devised a new way to prevent drunk driving. FOX's Monica Rix reports with the latest 'FOX on Tech': It's a concern most people have, you drive to the local watering hole on the weekend, but then, after one too many, you're worried not just about drunk driving, but leaving your car behind too. That's where Beck Halbeisen and Vinny Rowe from Broomfield, Colorado come in. The two teenagers developed the Leave No Car Behind app. It connects the tipsy user to not one, ...
T-Mobile Committed to Building First Nationwide 5G Coverage
May 03, 2017 18:28 - 212 BytesT-Mobile is planning to expand service for better coverage and faster speeds, in a move that could propel them to the fore-front of wireless capability. FOX's Brett Larson has "FOX on Tech": T-Mobile wants to be first to build a nationwide '5G' wireless network. T-Mobile just scooped up massive amounts of wireless spectrum in a government auction. The space is currently occupied by over-the-air digital TV signals that will soon be relocated. That will give them coast-to-coast coverage that wi...
Malaysian Airlines: First Airline to Use a Satellite Based Tracker
April 19, 2017 18:50 - 212 BytesA first for one airline company. FOX's Brett Larson reports: Malaysian Airlines flight 370 and all 239 passengers on board vanished over the Indian Ocean after falling off the radar en route to Beijing and the search for the plane ended after three years of searching, with only pieces of debris showing up in the last few years. Now, Malaysian Airlines will become the world's first to start using a satellite based tracking system that can keep a watchful eye on an airliner in hard to track pla...
Robot Food Delivery? Just Head to San Francisco
April 14, 2017 18:08 - 212 BytesRobots are getting your food for you, at least in the city by the bay. FOX's Brett Larson has "FOX on Tech": The robots are coming with your food delivery. In San Francisco, robotic startup Marble robots are working with Eat24 to deliver food. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Marble's Harrison Shei said for now, robots have a human helper: (Shei) "For the robot to have a voice to talk to the people, they're curious about it. To interact with the local businesses, ask some questio...
Facebook’s Latest Update: Stories
March 29, 2017 19:33 - 212 BytesFacebook is adding a new features to your timeline. FOX's Brett Larson explains: Facebook users may notice something familiar coming to their timeline. The new Facebook camera feature will let you add special effects to photos and videos. If that sounds somewhat familiar, it should. It's very much what users of SnapChat are doing and sharing on Facebook. Facebook's calling the new feature: Stories. The posts will appear above 'news feed' on mobile and though Facebook admits it's a lot like Sn...
Garfield’s Back! Helping Kids & Adults Stay Safe Online
December 22, 2016 19:42 - 212 BytesHe's been a lazy cat over the past few decades, but Garfield is back, and helping users navigate a changing and sometimes daunting online world. FOX's Joy Piazza explains in this edition of "FOX on Tech": When the "Garfield" comic strip first hit newsstands in 1978, "going online" wasn't a thing. Now that lazy feline is helping kids and adults alike navigate the 'web safely: (Davis) "We've been working very hard to take our analog cat into digital world now." "Garfield" creator Jim Davis part...
Apple Reveals New MacBook Pro
October 27, 2016 15:30 - 212 BytesApple revealed the long awaited new MacBook Pro on Thursday. FOX's Steve Rappoport has "FOX on Tech": It's here, the long rumored update to Apple's laptop lineup, rolled out after a video montage of all the previous portable Macs... Apple's CEO Tim Cook took the wraps off with one simple statement: (Cook) "This is the new Macbook Pro and it is absolutely incredible." The new MacBook Pro's are thinner and now feature better battery life and performance, but also something new called Touch Bar....
Instagram Makes a Change to Their Logo
May 12, 2016 17:12 - 211 BytesInstagram has made a bit of a makeover to their logo. FOX's Jo Ling Kent has "FOX on Tech": Outrage online over Instagram and it's not even about a photo. Instagram fans went into full meltdown mode over the photo app's new logo. Gone is the old fashioned camera icon. It's been replaced with a sleeker, flat colorful one that many users called it boring, generic or plain old basic. Instagram said it was going for simplicity to reflect its massive growth. More than 80 million photos and videos ...
Google’s Newest App To Make Emails Easier
November 04, 2015 14:30 - 208 BytesToo busy to answer all those emails? Maybe you could you use an artificial assistant. FOX News' Pat O'Neill has the story: It's a new twist on the "automated reply" feature. Google has unveiled a new tool designed to write artificially intelligent email responses. The so-called "smart reply" identifies which incoming emails deserve quick responses, then figures out the appropriate wording. Users will have three different reply choices before it's sent. The ones users pick are supposed to help...
New Apple iOS 9 Wi-Fi Feature Creating Issues For Some iPhone Users
September 29, 2015 15:38 - 210 BytesApple iPhone users may be finding an unpleasant surprise in their next phone bill. FOX News Radio's Brett Larson explains: FOX on Tech. Unless you have an unlimited data plan, you may want to ensure a certain setting in iOS 9 is turned off... Called 'Wi-Fi Assist', the feature switches your phones data connection from Wi-Fi to cellular when your Wi-Fi signal gets weak. Great when you wander outside your home, for example and can't get a solid signal... But if it switches to your cellular data...
Most Dangerous Celebrity Searches
September 29, 2015 15:17 - 217 BytesThey're the most dangerous celebrities in the world... For your computer. FOX News Radio's Chris Foster reports: Country star Luke Bryan is high up on the list of celebrity searches that can lead to websites installing viruses or unwanted software on fans' computers. That list is put together every year by Intel Security Group. The "most dangerous" celebrity is the Dutch music producer and DJ Armin van Buuren... It used to be Jimmy Kimmel. Luke Bryan, Usher, Britney Spears, Jay Z, Katy Perry ...
Lines Form Around the World for New iPhone 6s
September 25, 2015 15:14 - 210 BytesApple's retail stores around the world begin selling the latest iPhone models today. Fans of the iconic smartphone are known for camping out in front of stores in order to buy one. This debut was no different. Fox News Radio's Eben Brown reports: Before the sun rose here in the United States... Apple stores in Beijing, London, and Sydney were open already, selling their new stock of Apple's iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Keaton Keller of Chicago couldn't wait the extra 12 hours, he flew down under: (...
Apple Strikes Back After Application Hack
September 22, 2015 19:21 - 211 BytesAfter an app store hack attack, Apple now says it will let customers know, which apps to scrap. FOX News Radio's Gurnal Scott reports: Apple has already taken some of the 25 tainted apps out of their app store. These are apps that software developers in China, according to Apple executives, got tricked into using that introduced malware into several downloads. The danger is that malware can extract personal information from devices and upload it to outside servers. To date, Apple says it kn...
Facebook ‘Dislike’ Button Coming Soon
September 16, 2015 17:31 - 211 BytesFacebook users will soon have the option to 'dislike' something. FOX News Radio's Lisa Brady reports: It's an idea CEO Mark Zuckberberg has resisted for years not wanting to promote negativity among Facebook's one-and-a-half billion users. But he acknowledged last December, they were thinking about a 'dislike' button after so many requests from users. (Zuckerberg) "People tell us that they don't feel comfortable pressing 'like'... because 'like' isn't the appropriate sentiment when someone lo...
Google Creates New Parent Company, ‘Alphabet’
August 11, 2015 11:32 - 215 BytesSome changes coming to Google. FOX News Radio's Kerin McCue reports: It's Google's operating structure that'll be changing. Henceforth, it'll become part of a holding company called 'Alphabet'. Users will still be able search, use the maps and watch YouTube as Alphabet will house those main Google businesses. Couple all that with businesses managed separately: Like Fiber and Nest... Even Google Ventures. There'll be some changes in the front offices, too, with Larry Page becoming the CEO of A...
Can Gamers Solve Commuting Troubles?
August 06, 2015 17:05 - 212 BytesThe key to making commuting easier... may come from a couch. FOX News Radio's Chris Hoenig explains: FOX on Tech. Calling all gamers... Ford is looking for game developers to help solve some of the mysteries of commuting, coming up with ways to end gridlock and improve the efficiency of city transportation. (Bartholdy) "We want to use gameification to create an engaging and innovation solution to keep city travelers moving in a seamless and stress-free way." Challenge creator Bjoern Bartholdy...
Microsoft Launches Windows 10
July 29, 2015 12:56 - 211 BytesToday's the day countless PC's will be able to upgrade, free-of-charge, to Microsoft's latest version of Windows. But will anybody do it? FOX News Radio's Eben Brown reports for FOX On Tech: Upgrading to Windows 10 today? Microsoft gives it away free to users of Windows 7 and 8. (Laff) "They need it to be free to get people to really look at it. And just because it's free doesn't mean people are going to use it, but I think it will get more eyeballs." Tech entrepreneur Steven Laff of afarsite...
Google Gives Users A Way To “Unsend” Emails
June 24, 2015 16:08 - 213 BytesGoogle coming up with a way to stop those regrettable emails. FOX News Radio's Lisa Lacerra reports: Ever send an email to someone then wish you hadn't? Google now offering a way to cancel the delivery of an errant email within 30 seconds of hitting send as part of a settings change made to its Gmail this week. The undo send feature had been available for the past six years in Google's experimental labs, but it took extra steps to get there. Gmail users will now be able to activate the featur...
Elon Musk Looks To Provide Internet Service From Space
June 15, 2015 12:30 - 209 BytesCould the Internet be made to reach far flung corners of the planet too remote or dangerous to run fiber optic cable? One global technology entrepreneur thinks 'yes' and has already set out to do it. FOX News Radio's Eben Brown reports in this FOX on Tech: FOX On Tech. Billionaire tech guru Elon Musk whose space launch company does work for NASA, wants to put 4,000 satellites in the sky to make the Internet available anywhere on planet Earth. (Musk) "In the long term, it would be like rebui...
New Tools To Help During Disasters
June 02, 2015 14:17 - 209 BytesWith hurricane season underway, and with horrible floods leaving many communities in Texas underwater, federal disaster management officials are trying new tactics to not only spread important information, but also to gain data as they work to help people endure and recover. FOX News Radio's Eben Brown reports from Miami: Hurricane? Tornado? Flood? Earthquake? FEMA now has an app for that. And it's designed not just to help you, but also allow FEMA to gain information about a disaster from yo...
Verizon To Buy AOL
May 12, 2015 14:47 - 212 BytesA big buy for telecom giant Verizon... Breaking out the checkbook to purchase AOL for a hefty price tag. FOX News Radio's Gurnal Scott reports: Long-time techies remember it as 'America Online' the internet and messaging provider that was always quick to say... (AOL) "You've got mail!" While other companies have supplanted AOL as the internet has grown, Verizon still sees some value in it -- about $4.4 billion worth. Verizon is seeking to make a bigger splash in mobile communications and take...
Gamers Gear Up: The Oculus Rift Coming To A Store Near You
May 07, 2015 12:42 - 210 BytesThe first stand alone consumer virtual reality headset ready for consumers has it's release date. FOX News Radio's Bill Vitka has the story. The first VR headset is heading to market. Gamers will still need to be patient, because it wont reach retail till early next year -- but at least now -- there is a timeline. The headset is made by Oculus Rift and backed by Facebook, which spent $2 billion to buy the company. There's no word on the sales price or all the technical details. The headset w...
Radioactive Drone Discovered On Roof Of Japanese Prime Minister’s Office
April 22, 2015 12:24 - 509 KBIn Tokyo, a scare involving a radioactive drone. Details from Tokyo and FOX News Radio's Alastair Wanklyn: The drone quadcopter found on the roof of the Japanese prime minister's office -- it had a camera, a bottle with liquid and a label warning it was radioactive. Tests found it was, slightly. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe not in the building at the time, but the government here calling for... better security. There's no word if the drone was an attack or a stunt by activists, such as those who...
‘Mobilegeddon’: Google Search Change [VIDEO]
April 21, 2015 15:18 - 566 KBYour use of Google is likely going to change today. FOX News Radio's Eben Brown reports in "FOX On Tech": FOX On Tech. The crowd of internet users worldwide calls it "mobilegeddon" ("The Internship") "Welcome to Google!" As today's the day Google, the world's most used search engine tool, will start filtering search results based on what type of device you're searching with. And since most of us now are performing most of our searches via smartphone or tablet, that means we're gonna get searc...
How Can You Protect Your Online Privacy?
March 26, 2015 17:50 - 932 KBSo, what can you do to protect your privacy online from criminal hackers and government snooping? FOX News Radio's Hank Weinbloom reports: Cyber INsecurity. Throughout this series, we've heard it over and over... you are vulnerable online. Hackers can get your personal information. And you are listening. A survey by the Pew Research Center finds more than half of Americans are worried that the government is snooping into their private cyber activities. And you are changing your ways. (Rainey)...
Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server Hack-Proof?
March 25, 2015 11:48 - 701 KBThe controversy over Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server has raised another question: how hack-proof were her communications? Cyber-security experts warn of vulnerability. FOX News Radio's Jared Halpern has more from Washington. "Cyber INsecurity." Earlier this month, the former Secretary of State defiantly cast aside security concerns from using her own email and server. (Clinton) "The system we used was set up for President Clinton's office and it had numerous safeguards." Addin...
Silicon Valley Fights Back Against Cyber Attacks
March 23, 2015 11:00 - 675 KBThe Director of National Intelligence says cyber attacks are the biggest threat to the economy and national security, and the brains in Silicon Valley say they're trying to come up with ways to fight back. FOX News Radio's Jessica Rosenthal was in Silicon Valley and spoke with many security experts: "Cyber INsecurity." Many of the experts agree with Rick Howard, Head of Security at Palo Alto Networks... (Howard) "I don't think that there's a technology solution." Because, technology systems h...
Cyber Security: Celebs at Risk
March 20, 2015 16:17 - 939 KBExperts say to be very careful what you put online, and that anyone who posts anything is at risk. Especially at risk? Celebrities. FOX News Radio's Michelle Pollino explains: Cyber INsecurity. Over 60 nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence were leaked online. 26 celebs were targeted and hacked through iCloud in the Fall of 2014. Those cases are still under investigation. Scarlett Johansson was one of a handful celebs hacked in 2011, however Assistant U.S. Attorney Wes Hsu prosecuted her hacker, Ch...
Apple Reportedly In Talks To Begin TV Streaming Service
March 17, 2015 15:42 - 627 KBApple may be getting into the streaming TV business. FOX News Radio's Chris Foster reports: The Wall Street Journal reports: Apple is in talks to offer a slimmed down service with about 25 channels, including ABC, CBS and FOX-owned networks on Apple devices and televisions hooked up through its set-top box. (Cook) "Apple TV will reinvent the way that you watch television, and this is just the beginning." Apple CEO Tim Cook at an event last week. The Journal reports, the service would launch i...