Stories by Megan Geuss

New Router Array Brings More Wi-Fi to High-Traffic Areas

If customers or employees often complain that your business’ Wi-Fi is too slow, you aren’t alone as wireless demands have been higher than ever, and don’t show any signs of abating. But solving that problem may not just be about<a href="http://www.pc...

The last time Apple was without Jobs

Just how visionary is Steve Jobs? It’s a loaded question that’s hard to answer. When Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak cofounded Apple computers in 1976, it would have been impossible to tell that their computers would—at least in the first decade of...

Best free utilities and security apps

Utilities and security apps are two of the most important categories of software that PC users download. From keeping your operating system slim and bloatware-free to eradicating cookies and spyware, these apps amply reward you for downloading them. ...

App makers may be exposing your sensitive data to hackers

Some popular apps store sensitive data such as user names and passwords and credit card information in plain text on your phone's memory, making the data an easy target for hackers. A Chicago-based mobile forensics company called viaForensics recentl...

New tech boosts processor's "IQ"

The problem with the smartphones, laptops, and tablets of our day is that the tools are multifunctional, but the energy that powers them can’t be divided up by function. Well, until now. Harvard graduate student Wonyoung Kim has unveiled a prototype ...

Mind-controlled car does exactly what you think

A German Lab in Berlin has created a car that can turn right, turn left, accelerate, and brake using <em>only your thoughts</em> (…and some electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors, and some creative software hooked up to the hardware of your car).