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  • Computing Disruption

    If you’re familiar with Moore’s Law (that the number of transistors in an computer chip double every year), it is in danger of dying out. The Law has since been revised to every 18 months, to every two years. Now we are in a very real danger of this exponential growth bottoming out.

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CybserSecurity Articles

  • NASA Reveals Employee Data Breach In Memo

    The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that one of its servers was hacked earlier this year, exposing personal data of current and former employees including social security numbers.

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  • The Evil Twin Attack: Safe use of Public Internet

    Wireless connectivity has existed now for more than twenty years. Public WiFi access points are everywhere. But how safe are these access points, and what risk do they pose to your security? Connection to public internet access exposes your data to eavesdropping through a method known as the “Evil Twin” attack.

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Information Security Articles

  • IcePick-3PC Malware Strain Steals Device IPs

    IcePick-3PC has impacted a range of businesses, from publishers to e-commerce, across a variety of industries, including retail and healthcare, according to researchers from The Media Trust’s digital security and operations (DSO) team.

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  • RogueRobin Malware Uses Google Drive as C2 Channel

    A custom malware used by the APT known as DarkHydrus uses a mix of novel techniques, including using Google Drive as an alternate command-and-control (C2) channel.

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Information Technology Articles

  • Argon Transform turns any bike helmet smart without much fuss

    The two-piece attachment will make your bike rides safer thanks to its front and rear cameras.

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  • CES 2019: Xiaomi's double-bending foldable phone just stole Samsung's thunder

    Samsung is expected to show off a fully functioning version of its hotly anticipated foldable phone at its Galaxy S10 launch event on Feb. 20. But after Chinese rival brand Xiaomi teased its own book-like foldable phone on Wednesday, will people still care?

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STEM Articles

  • PTSD: alleviating flashbacks by playing Tetris

    A behavioural intervention procedure including the computer game Tetris could help people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to alleviate involuntarily recurring visual memories of traumatic experiences.

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  • First Graphene Transistor and Alfred Nobel's Will at Nobel Museum Can Impress Anyone

    Graphene consists of a network of carbon atoms just one atom thick. It was discovered by Professor Sir Andre Geim and Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov, researchers at the University of Manchester, England, in 2004.

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