Archive for December 2015
Motherboard writes about a new worring secury issue in article Ransomware Is Coming to Medical Devices. It teells that according to a report released recently week by Forrester Research the number one cybersecurity prediction for 2016: “We’ll see ransomware for a medical device or wearable.” Ransomware today is big business. Ransomware takes control of a →
http://interestingengineering.com/renewable-energy-baseload-power-fallacy/ Posted from WordPress for Android →
Espressif ESP8266 WiFi-serial interface : weekend die-shot blog posting shows what is inside ESP8266 WiFi IoT chip. Die size 2050×2169 µm, half of which is occupied by transceiver and PA, 25% – on-chip memory (rough size estimations are ~300KiB), and the rest is Xtensa LX106 CPU core and other digital logic. Chip has marking ESP8089, →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/ros-robot-operating-system-celebrates-8-years Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/12/google-nasa-our-quantum-computer-is-100-million-times-faster-than-normal-pc/ But this applies only to some special applications. Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/small-tweaks-to-its-recipe-and-white-graphene-could-change-electronics Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://reaktor.com/space/ Interesting… Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/metasurface-optics-for-better-cellphone-cameras-and-3d-displays Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/richest-ten-percent-produce-half-world-s-carbon-emissions-report-says Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/most-expensive-thing-in-the-world-endohedral-fullerene-science-oxford-a6763356.html Expensive material for making tiny atomic clocks. Posted from WordPress for Android →