Technology

These Small, Low-cost Gadgets Assist Monitor Haiti’s Earthquakes

When a magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit Haiti in 2010 and killed an estimated 200,000 folks, there was just one working seismometer within the nation. The shaking shortly overwhelmed the seismometer, an schooling instrument put in at a highschool, and it recorded little helpful knowledge. Weeks handed earlier than overseas seismic consultants may journey to the catastrophe

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Business

BlackBerry Ends Service; Units Will Cease Working January 4

To legions of executives, journalists and politicians — even the chief of the free world — they have been once-indispensable gadgets for staying linked when strange cellphones wouldn’t suffice. Anything was for amateurs. The gadgets, with the quirky-sounding title BlackBerry and the QWERTY keyboard that conditioned many individuals to sort with their thumbs, have been

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