Archive for the ‘internet’ category: Page 291
May 23, 2016
How to access the dark web, where all sorts of illegal stuff goes down online
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: internet
Be careful of the landmines.
What you need to know about visiting the underbelly of the internet.
May 22, 2016
This Smartwatch for Seniors Has GPS, WiFi, Cellular Connectivity, And an SOS Button
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: internet, mobile phones
The new Wherecom S3, from Omate, has the ability to send the wearer’s GPS location to specific contacts in the event of an emergency.
A new smartwatch is promising something different: Keeping your grandparents safe. The new Wherecom S3, from Omate, was launched on Tuesday. It’s an Android-powered smartwatch with GPS, Wi-Fi, and 3G cellular connectivity, this means that the tech can function without a smartphone.
The watch has the ability to text, call, track paths through GPS, and remind individuals when it’s time to take medication. The S3 also has an emergency alert function in the form of a red SOS button on the side of the watch, which can be pressed in the event of an emergency to send the wearer’s GPS location to specific contacts.
May 19, 2016
Point your phone at an equation and Mathpix will solve it
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: education, information science, internet, mathematics, mobile phones, neuroscience
Math isn’t everyone’s strong suit, especially those who haven’t stretched that part of their brain since college. Thanks to the wonders of image recognition technology, we now have Mathpix, an iOS app that lets you point your phone camera at a problem and calculates solutions in seconds.
The interface looks like any standard camera app: simply drag the on-screen reticle over the equation and the app solves it and provides graph answers where appropriate. More useful is a step-by-step guide offering multiple methods to reach a solution, making this a bona fide educational tool. It uses image recognition to process problems and pings its servers to do the mathematical heavy lifting, so it likely requires an internet connection to work.
Mathpix was envisioned by Stanford PhD student Nico Jimenez, who was advised by Stanford grad Paul Ferrell. The app’s other developers are high schoolers Michael Lee and August Trollback, which is impressive for an app that claims to be the first to visually recognize and solve handwritten math problems.
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May 18, 2016
The Queen’s Speech Featured Driverless Cars, Spaceports And Faster Internet
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: internet, robotics/AI, transportation
UK Spaceport, Faster Broadband And Driverless Electric Cars Mentioned In Queen’s Speech 2016.
Everything you need to know about the government’s futuristic vision for 2016.
May 18, 2016
A hacker is reportedly selling the stolen emails and passwords of 117 million LinkedIn users
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: bitcoin, cybercrime/malcode, encryption, humor, internet
Privacy is practically a joke anymore.
A hacker known as “Peace” is selling what is reportedly account information from 117 million LinkedIn users. The stolen data is said to include email addresses and passwords, which a malicious party could use to gain access to other websites and accounts for which people used the same password.
LinkedIn says it has about 433 million members worldwide, so this data could represent 27% of its user base.
May 17, 2016
Mason researchers keep networks moving to stay safe from hacker attacks
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, information science, internet, quantum physics
Given the fact that Los Alamos Labs have been and continue to advance cyber security work on the Quantum Internet as well as work in partnerships with other labs and universities; so, why isn’t Mason not collaborating with Los Alamos on developing an improved hacker proof net? Doesn’t look like the most effective and cost efficient approach.
Imagine burglars have targeted your home, but before they break in, you’ve already moved and are safe from harm.
Now apply that premise to protecting a computer network from attack. Hackers try to bring down a network, but critical tasks are a step ahead of them, thanks to complex algorithms. The dreaded “network down” or denial of service message never flashes on your screen.
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May 17, 2016
High-efficiency power amplifier could bring 5G cell phones
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, internet, mobile phones, space, transportation
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A new highly efficient power amplifier for electronics could help make possible next-generation cell phones, low-cost collision-avoidance radar for cars and lightweight microsatellites for communications.
Fifth-generation, or 5G, mobile devices expected around 2019 will require improved power amplifiers operating at very high frequencies. The new phones will be designed to download and transmit data and videos faster than today’s phones, provide better coverage, consume less power and meet the needs of an emerging “Internet of things” in which everyday objects have network connectivity, allowing them to send and receive data.
Power amplifiers are needed to transmit signals. Because today’s cell phone amplifiers are made of gallium arsenide, they cannot be integrated into the phone’s silicon-based technology, called complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS). The new amplifier design is CMOS-based, meaning it could allow researchers to integrate the power amplifier with the phone’s electronic chip, reducing manufacturing costs and power consumption while boosting performance.
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May 17, 2016
Seeding space with nanosatellites for affordable Internet
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: internet, satellites
https://youtube.com/watch?v=W0YgV1TgnF8
Luv this as long as it doesn’t pollute space.
Space seeds could bring high-bandwidth Internet connectivity to the globe at less expense than the cost of putting one satellite into space.
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May 17, 2016
Scientists Find New Light Form — And It Changes Everything
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: internet, quantum physics
A new form of light which makes fiber optics more secure. Los Alamos has been key player in this space due to their work on the Quantum Internet.
In a breakthrough that has the potential to alter our understanding of the fundamental nature of light, scientists from the Trinity College Dublin School of Physics and the CRANN Institute in Ireland have discovered a never before seen new form of luminescence.
Lead author Paul Eastham attests to how exciting this finding is, saying in a statement that this very fundamental property of light that has always been thought to be constant can, in fact, change.
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