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 →
The name of the game in optical metasurfaces is shortening the wavelengths of light. This yields devices that can manipulate light for information processing and also reduce the bulk of the devices based on traditional optics. Metasurfaces have been pretty good at offering small, flat features, but the integrated metallic resonators they use to filter light according →
Physicists have succeeded in confirming one of the theoretical aspects of quantum physics: Subatomic objects switch between particle and wave states when observed, while remaining in a dual state beforehand. In the bizarre world of quantum mechanics, events rippling back in time may not seem that much stranger than things like “spooky action at a →
Did you know that black belts do not indicate ninja-level mastery, adding only a sprinkle of salt to fresh water does not make it boil quicker, and that sharks do get cancer? These are all part of the myths and misconceptions infographic created by London-based author, data-journalist and information designer David McCandless. http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/52-common-myths-and-misconceptions-debunked Posted from →