Tech News May 20, 2014

  • Business Adapts to a New Style of Computer

    Are companies ready for billions of everyday objects to join the Internet?

    The technology industry is preparing for the Internet of things, a type of computing characterized by small, often dumb, usually unseen computers attached to objects. These devices sense and transmit data about the environment or offer new means of controlling it.

  • We Need a MERS Vaccine, but High Costs, Regulations Make One Unlikely

    New technologies give vaccine developers a boost in early development, but large-scale testing and production are bogged down by high costs and lengthy trials.

    Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, is spreading across the globe, and while a vaccine could be developed, there’s little commercial incentive to make one.

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