Harvard Study Refutes Arguments Against Encrypted Devices
A new study from Harvard largely debunks claims that wider use of encryption by indivduals will hamper investigations into terrorism and crime. The study predicts that the continued expansion of...
View ArticleIn A Strange Twist, Dridex Malware Now Distributes Antivirus Program
Users duped into opening malicious Word documents that distribute the Dridex online banking Trojan might have a pleasant surprise: They’ll get a free anitivirus program instead. That’s because an...
View ArticleThe Linux Foundation Goes Zephyr
It can still support a broad range of wireless and wired technologies and of course is entirely open saucy released under the Apache v2.0 License.
View ArticleGoogle Compare To Be Shutdown
Google is pulling the plug on Google Compare, its U.S. comparison-shopping site for auto insurance, credit cards and mortgages after one year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people...
View ArticleInsurers View Google As A Potential Competitor
More than 40 percent of insurance companies view Google as a potential threat because of its strong brand and ability to use customer data. And young, mobile phone-friendly consumers may bypass...
View ArticleQualcomm’s SnapDragon 820 Wins Major Benchmark Test
AnTuTu is a widely followed benchmark and is an industry standard by technology companies and hardware review sites. It tests all aspects of a device, including UX, GPU, RAM, CPU, I/O and individually...
View ArticleDriverless Cars Headed To British Roads
Britain said it will begin a trial for driverless cars on motorways for the first time in 2017, as it moves toward its goal of allowing autonomous cars to take to the streets by 2020. The government...
View ArticleIs Microsoft Going All-In On Quantum Computing?
“There’s just hope and optimism those scientific achievements will lead to practical outcomes. It’s hard to know when and where,” Lee said.
View ArticleDoes The Snapdragon Processor Have a Security Risk?
The difficulty here is that the IoT going to need to have a system in place ensuring these devices are safe for public use with security updates.
View ArticleDDR4 Vulnerable To Rowhammer Exploit
The researchers tested these claims and ofund that eight out of 12 varieties of DDR4 chips could be bitflipped only DIMMs from G.Skill were able to withstand the tests.
View ArticleSamsung Producing 10nm 8Gb DDR4
The next thing on the agenda is for Samsung to launch next-gen 10nm mobile DRAM products with higher densities which will be smaller and faster.
View ArticleBritain’s Daily Mail Said To Be Bidding For Yahoo
Britain’s Daily Mail is holding discussions with potential partners to mount a joint bid for Yahoo’s internet assets, eyeing a plan to acquire the troubled U.S. Internet pioneer to help boost...
View ArticleIs Samsung Preparing For A Price War?
"Sales of smartphones, the main savior to memory demand growth have also weakened considerably to single digit growth this year and servers with datacenters are not strong enough to absorb the excess,...
View ArticleQualcomm’s Appears To Be Slowing
Qualcomm, which has recently signed new deals with several companies including Lenovo and it was still in talks with key Chinese smartphone makers to sign agreements.
View ArticleDid Researchers Create Batteries That A Lifetime?
The battery-like structure was tested more than 200,000 times over a three-month span, and the researchers reported no loss of capacity or power.
View ArticleAre Tablets Dead?
Amazon has found success with its starting-at-$49 Fire, showing that consumers will still buy bargain-priced tablets. Missing from the list was Microsoft in spite of the popularity of its Surface Pro...
View ArticleIs Qualcomm Facing Another Security Flaw?
FireEye said that this vulnerablity is “high severity,” but Google noted that it does not affect Nexus devices. The patch for the issue is not in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repository but...
View ArticleARM Acquires Computer Visual Technology Firm Apical
ARM has purchased Apical, a U.K. designer of embedded computer vision technology, and will incorporate that technology into future ARM microprocessor and system-on-chip designs, it has announced. The...
View ArticleGoogle’s DeepMind Working On ‘Kill Switch’ For Robots, AI Systems
Google DeepMind, a London-based artificial intelligence firm that Google purchased in 2014, is working on what will be a kill switch for robots and other A.I. systems. The idea is that one day a smart...
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