WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cyberspace is the battlefield of the future, with attackers already going after banks and other financial institutions and developing the ability to strike U.S. power grids and government systems, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday. "We confront a whole new threat of warfare in (cyberspace). ... This is an area we've got to pay close attention to. This is the battlefront of the future," he told a business group in Norfolk, Virginia, a city at the center of one of the largest concentrations of military power in the United States. ...

View the original article here

From left to right, Walt Mossberg, John Hennessy, and Salman Khan (Photo courtesy All Things D)

As someone with a daughter seven years away from college, it’s not surprising that I thought one of the most captivating sessions at the Wall Street Journal’s D10 conference this year featured Stanford president John Hennessy and Khan Academy founder Salman Khan, and focused on how technology is impacting education.

Just the other day, my wife and I were discussing the future of higher education over lunch, from the perspective of 20 years since we finished college and less than a decade before our oldest heads to it. So many of our expectations about the college experience come from our own personal experiences, and yet the march of technology—not just in the past 20 years, but most particularly in the past five—made us wonder just what a 21st-century college should really look like.

Keep reading...

View the original article here

Gadgets continue to shrink in size and adapt to free up our hands, making it more convenient than ever for users to multitask.

View the original article here