U.S. FAA convenes multiagency board to review Boeing software fix
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it had convened a multiagency Technical Advisory Board to review Boeing's proposed software fix on the grounded 737 Max. The board consists of experts from the FAA, U.S. Air Force, NASA and Volpe National Transportation Systems Center that ...
Anti-stall software upgrade for 737 Max nearing completion ahead of FAA certification, Boeing says
Boeing Co. has said it is close to a significant milestone that's one of the last steps before it submits to U.S. regulators a patch for anti-stall software linked to two fatal 737 Max accidents. The company has completed its engineering trial of the updated ...
Adobe to launch Photoshop for iPad in strategy shift
Adobe Systems Inc., the maker of popular digital design programs for creatives, is planning to launch the full version of its Photoshop app for Apple Inc.'s iPad as part of a new strategy to make its products compatible across multiple devices and boost subscription ...
Germany: 774,000 Mercedes cars have unauthorized software defeat devices
Germany's Transport Ministry said on Monday that 774,000 Mercedes-Benz vehicles in Europe had been found to contain unauthorized software defeat devices and ordered Daimler to recall more than 200,000 cars in Germany. Mercedes-Benz C-Class and Vito models with diesel engines and a sports utility variant ...
U.S. bill would force tech firms to disclose if foreign adversaries probed their sensitive software
U.S. tech companies would be forced to disclose if they allowed American adversaries, like Russia and China, to examine the inner workings of software sold to the U.S. military under proposed legislation, Senate staff told Reuters on Thursday. The bill, approved by the Senate Armed ...
Developers of app that lets users to remotely access smartphones slapped with arrest warrants
Police on Wednesday served fresh arrest warrants to three developers of a computer application that enables remote access to other people's smartphones, and separately arrested the leader of the software development team. Wataru Ishida, a 40-year-old executive of Yokohama-based Internal Corp., Kotaro Katakura, the 31-year-old ...
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Sunday that a bad software update might have caused up to 1.62 million of its liquid crystal display TVs across Japan to repeatedly turn on and off every few minutes. The problem, which began at midnight Saturday and involved 118 models ...
Free Windows app turns your webcam into theremin-like musical instrument
Let me hear your body talk. An app that turns your webcam into a range of virtual musical instruments debuts on Wednesday, offering aural adventures for those who wanna get physical. The free app for Windows computers recognizes a user's gestures correlating to graphics displayed ...
Watchdog sees cloud computing curbing unlicensed software use
The rising use of cloud computing will help curtail unlicensed software use, a piracy watchdog said. Japan remains one of the countries with the lowest rate of unlicensed software use, at 19 percent last year, the Business Software Alliance, an industry lobby group, said Tuesday. "It ...
Apps take new lead from social games
On Japanese TV, you may notice that a lot of commercials for smartphone social games emphasize the word muryō (free). Consumers have been purchasing digital content on their phones for years, even since the clam-shell cellphone days. Now, more and more Japanese people are ...
Industry minister Motegi boasts patent for menu translation software
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday he has acquired a patent on a software system allowing foreigners to check food ingredients in their own language when ordering at restaurants. The system, available on a tablet computer or the like, may help ...
