Archive for July 2019

World Emoji Day

For World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium redesigns its site to be more user-friendly | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/17/for-world-emoji-day-the-unicode-consortium-redesigns-its-site-to-be-more-user-friendly/ The World Emoji Day is on Wednesday, July 17. For it Apple and Google had announced plans to bring an expanded set of emoji to their respective platforms. The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization responsible for determining which

5G safety and security

Is 5G completely safe and secure? Is 5G radiation more or less dangerous than currently used 2G/3G/4G? Just read this article and advice also other people to read (including two earler articles referenced). It tries to cover both the sides that say 5G is safe and 5G could potentially dangerous. But does it succeed in

Light and optics science news

Here are some interesting science news: New property of light discovered https://phys.org/news/2019-06-property.html A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Spain and the U.S. has announced that they have discovered a new property of light—self-torque. Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem https://petapixel.com/2019/07/05/goodbye-aberration-physicist-solves-2000-year-old-optical-problem/ “In this equation we describe how the shape of the second

Friday Art: Filip Hodas’ ‘pop culture dystopia’ series

https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/illustration/artist-filip-hodas-on-creating-incredible-brand-new-pop-culture-dystopia-artwork-series/ Filip created this illustration series to learn how to use 3D painting software Substance Painter – and he’s just released some new works. Check them out here.

Cloud outage season?

Looks like Facebook & WhatsApp CDNs have been at least partially down. For example Facebook images are not showing. Just fee days ago Cloudflare was down. And also Google has taken a bite? Is it an outage season in US that affects peole all over world? Who broke all the social networks? So far there

Scandinavia’s first 5G phone was sold

Scandinavia’s first 5G phone was sold to a Finnish customer today in Helsinki. Telecom operator Elisa CEO gave the ZTE Axon 10 Pro 5G smartphone to the customer. Source: Yle news https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10860384

Cyber security news in July 2019

This posting is here to collect cyber security news in July 2019. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. If you are interested in cyber security trends, read my Cyber security trends 2019 posting. You are also free to post related links.