Flying taxis could be more efficient than gas and electric cars on long-distance trips

Flying cars definitely sound cool, but whether they’re actually a good idea is up for debate. Fortunately they do seem to have some surefire benefits, among which you can now count improved efficiency — in theory, and on long trips. But it’s something! Air travel […]

Walmart battles online retail by adding more robots to its stores

The retailer announced today that it will deploy 1,500 new “Auto-C” autonomous floor cleaners, 300 “Auto-S” shelf scanners and an additional 1,200 “FAST” unloaders to scan and sort items as they come off delivery trucks. Plus to streamline online orders, it’ll have 900 “Pickup Towers” […]

Vulnerabilities discovered in Verizon routers leave millions of consumers at risk

New research from the cybersecurity firm Tenable has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway routers. If exploited, these vulnerabilities would give an attacker complete control over the router and visibility into everything connected to it which quite alarming given the fact that millions […]

The government is about to permanently bar the IRS from creating a free electronic filing system

Thanks to pressure from tax preparation industry, Congress is getting ready to ban the Internal Revenue Service from ever building a free electronic tax filing system. As ProPublica reports, the effort is a bipartisan one. The House Ways and Means Committee, led by Massachusetts Democrat, […]