NIST Starts Planning for Post-Quantum Cryptography – Schneier on Security
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/05/nist_starts_pla.html Quantum computers will break easily many popular encryption systems, so we need something new. →
Science news
New form of light
http://www.geek.com/news/new-form-of-light-may-change-the-future-of-fiber-optics-1655201/ Interesting finding. May have some uses in optical communications. →
Friday Fun: Spurious Correlations
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations Correalition does not always indicate causation. Check also related comic xkcd: Correlation →
IBM Puts a Quantum Processor in the Cloud – IEEE Spectrum
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/ibm-puts-a-quantum-processor-in-the-cloud Interesting. →
Microsoft Buys Into DNA Data Storage – IEEE Spectrum
http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/imaging/microsoft-buys-into-dna-data-storage DNA can be used to store data! →
CERN Just Released 300 Terabytes Worth Of Data To The Public | IFLScience
http://www.iflscience.com/physics/cern-releases-300-terabytes-worth-data-public Be a scientist and research yourself the scientific data from Cern. Nice way to open data. →
Tesla Coil Remotely Induces Nanotubes to Self Assemble
Nikola Tesla was cool expecially Tesla coils that can play music and and do other fancy things.Nikola Tesla conjured up all sorts of interesting experiments for his famed “Tesla Coils.” Today, however, their main use has been relegated largely to impressing visitors at science museums. Now there is one new scientific use: Tesla Coil Remotely →
New Full Duplex Radio Chip Transmits and Receives Wireless Signals at Once – IEEE Spectrum
New Full Duplex Radio Chip Transmits and Receives Wireless Signals at Once – IEEE Spectrum http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/new-full-duplex-radio-chip-transmits-and-receives-wireless-signals-at-once A new chip by Columbia University researchers uses a circulator made of silicon transistors to reroute signals and avoid interference from a transmitter and receiver that share the same antenna. The chip enables them to work around the principle →
A Single Drop Of Synthetic DNA Can Store All Of The Data In The World | IFLScience
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/single-drop-synthetic-dna-can-store-all-data-world According to researchers DNA could be used to store a lot of digital data. →
Study: How Government Surveillance Stifles Dissent on the Internet – The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/how-surveillance-mutes-dissent-on-the-internet/476955/?utm_source=SFFB Interesting findings… Posted from WordPress for Android →