Lucas Mearian
Senior Reporter
Lucas Mearian covers financial services IT (including blockchain), healthcare IT and enterprise mobile issues (including mobility management, security, hardware and apps).
How IoT is becoming the pulse of healthcare
Healthcare enterprise budgeting for IoT devices is on par with other leading industries, such as manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and energy, and the largest increase in three years is set to occur in 2020.
Q&A: How Baptist Health saved $13M using AI to reduce readmissions
The largest hospital group in Montgomery, Ala. deployed artificial intelligence with its EHR system; the information gleaned has helped cut unnecessary admissions by 18% over the past two years.
Facebook changes its Libra plans to include more cryptocurrencies
After seeing the departure of key members of its non-profit development body – and facing regulatory pressure – Facebook appears to be ready to be more inclusive in its cryptocurrency plans.
FIDO Alliance and the future of passwords
Apple is the latest company to join the FIDO Alliance, an industry standards group committed to finding more secure ways to log in to online accounts and apps. The FIDO Alliance pushes for multi-factor authentication (MFA) deployment,...
Verizon: Companies will sacrifice mobile security for profitability, convenience
Although nearly seven-in-10 businesses suffered a mobile compromise – and called the impact “major” – nearly half continue to sacrifice security, according to a study by Verizon.
Apple joins industry effort to eliminate passwords
Apple has joined a veritable who's who of tech vendors in the FIDO Alliance who see standardized, two-factor authentication as the way forward for device log-in.
How blockchain could help block fake news
Creating an immutable ledger to track metadata associated with published content shows promise as a method for identifying authentic news.
The problem with mobile and app voting
It's the day after the 2020 Iowa caucuses, and the Iowa Democratic Party has yet to announce the winner. The app that precinct leaders were supposed to use to report final tallies recorded inconsistent results. Party leaders blamed a...
MIT researchers say mobile voting app piloted in U.S. is rife with vulnerabilities
The flaws could let a hacker alter, stop or expose how a person has voted.
BlackBerry says its new Digital Workplace eliminates need for VPN, VDI
BlackBerry has integrated its Desktop and Access Browser with partner Awingu's secure browser-based workspace and AI-driven security software from its acquisition of Cylance.
Why the Fed is considering a cash-backed cryptocurrency
A real-time payments infrastructure enabled by a blockchain-based stablecoin could offer many advantages, a Federal Reserve governor said during a recent speech.
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