It’s been nearly a year since the first portable DNA sequencers were shipped to giddy researchers waiting to be untethered from the refrigerator-sized machines in their labs. Now a desktop version by the same maker, Oxford Nanopore, is heading their way. The company’s grand, long-term vision is to build an “internet of living things.” The →
Invented by Tim Berners Lee, the first website went live at research lab CERN in 1990 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/12061803/The-worlds-first-website-went-online-25-years-ago-today.html Posted from WordPress for Android →
Security researchers have successfully exploited the Android-based Stagefright bug and remotely hacked a phone, which may leave millions devices vulnerable to attack. Israeli software research company NorthBit claimed it had “properly” exploited the Android bug that was originally described as the “worst ever discovered”. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-03/16/stagefright-android-real-world-hack The exploitation, called Metaphor, is detailed in a research paper →
Famously, “Software is eating the world”, and I would add: at a fast pace! In my opinion, there are two key reasons for that: a) Software development reached an unprecedented speed. b) Online marketing enables fast and scalable distribution of software. The increase in development speed is driven by the innovation of re-using existing blocks. →
Finland wants to become a world pioneering test and development environment for intelligent automation in transport. The perfect test environment for Amazon’s delivery drones and Google’s self-driving cars may soon be found in Finland. Especially when challenging Arctic conditions enter the picture. This is where Finland steps in by offering a strong digital infrastructure, plenty →
Nice presentation from LinuxCon North America 2014 describing Linux Performance Tools https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/brendangregg/linux-performance-tools Posted from WordPress for Android →
No matter how efficient we make our transistors and memory cells, they will always consume a fixed but tiny amount of energy set by the second law of thermodynamics, a new study suggests. Now the question is how close our real-world devices can get to this fundamental value. “At the end of the day, it confirms that Landauer’s theory seems to →
This article shows a nice set of engineering hacks… enjoy. http://interestingengineering.com/20-super-simple-everyday-engineering-hacks/ Posted from WordPress for Android →
5 Major Hospital Hacks: Horror Stories from the Cybersecurity Frontlines article tells that real-world war, combatants typically don’t attack hospitals. In the cyber realm, hackers have no such scruples. “We’re attacked about every 7 seconds, 24 hours a day” Many computers and medical devices in hospitals are running ancient operating systems that are full of security holes. →
Whether they’re for sensors in artificial skin that demands flexibility or for wearable electronics where the circuits must withstand our sweat, silicon-based chips aren’t always up to the task. Now, an international research team has developed a way to fabricate flexible, water-loving logic circuits and sensors without the need of semiconductors. Instead, what the researchers have done is coat gold →