Not only are leap years the result of millennia of mathematical work, they are also the consequence of rulers imposing their will on people’s day to day lives, and the gradual understanding of our place in the universe. http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/science-behind-leap-years-and-how-they-work Posted from WordPress for Android →
A UN panel has recommended that airlines ban all lithium-ion shipments from commercial flights. Why? Because batteries catch fire sometimes. A new packaging standard is expected in 2018 that might make batteries safe enough to be shipped on passenger planes again, but there’s no guarantee. http://www.geek.com/chips/un-panel-bans-lithium-ion-battery-shipments-from-passenger-flights-1648244/ Posted from WordPress for Android →
California-based secure smartphone manufacturer Turing Robotics Industries announced that it will move manufacturing and its new global headquarter to the Finnish city of Salo. Turing’s decision is rooted in security concerns. “Finland’s Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications which safeguards confidentiality and privacy in telecommunications was the main reason behind TRI’s move →
You might think that the kind of tech heads who attend CES and Mobile World Congress have a clue about security. Avast set up an experiment to prove that’s not necessarily the case. How did they do it? By setting up a rogue wireless access point and broadcasting SSIDs like Starbucks, Airport_Free_Wifi_AENA, and MWC Free →
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/02/24/the-internet-of-things-has-gone-too-far/? Funny IoT comic Posted from WordPress for Android →
x86 virtualization in JavaScript, running in your browser and NodeJS: v86 emulates an x86-compatible CPU and hardware. https://github.com/copy/v86 Posted from WordPress for Android →
It’s not every day you move a 75 million+ user company from a home-grown infrastructure to the cloud. But if you use Spotify, more and more of your musical experience will be delivered by Google Cloud Platform over the coming weeks and months http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.fi/2016/02/Spotify-chooses-Google-Cloud-Platform-to-power-data-infrastructure.html?m=1 Posted from WordPress for Android →
Power Problems Threaten to Strangle Exascale Computing Three possible solutions: specialized architectures, millivolt switches, and 3-D memory http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/power-problems-threaten-to-strangle-exascale-computing Posted from WordPress for Android →
Will future exascale supercomputers be able to withstand the steady onslaught of routine faults? http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/how-to-kill-a-supercomputer-dirty-power-cosmic-rays-and-bad-solder Posted from WordPress for Android →
An analysis by researchers at Bastille Networks indicates that your wireless mouse might provide an attacker with a route to get malware onto your machine, provided they’re within about 100 meters. They’ve dubbed this vulnerability “Mousejack.” The researchers tested many mice from manufacturers like Logitech, Dell, and Lenovo that operate over 2.4GHz wireless communications. This →