Dark Web: The smart person's guide. Hacking is a fact of life for business and consumers alike.
Often, leaked data surfaces and is sold to miscreants—hackers, shady government organizations, and other bad actors—on the Dark Web. The Dark Web—or darknet, backweb, onionweb—is frequently misunderstood. Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation comes down to one word: Cloud. It's been reported over and over and over again.
Yes, Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation. This is an event, a real, serious event; something not one pundit, analyst, or Linux user would have even remotely considered not even five years ago. What You Need to Know About Current, Voltage and Resistance - Build Electronic Circuits. How To Choose a Power Supply? - Build Electronic Circuits.
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How new haptics tech will move you. Now that the Apple Watch is finally out in the wild, millions will be experiencing the next big thing for user interfaces.
Call it "haptics plus. " Haptics normally involves actuators, or tiny vibration motors, to either convey information, create a touch illusion of some kind, or both. (If you've ever played a console game, you've felt the vibrations in the controller designed to simulate action in the game.) The new trend in haptic feedback is to combine haptics with "something else" to crank up the illusion of action, motion, texture and even the illusion of touching something that isn't there.
The Apple Watch and our cyborg future. My first week of wearing the Apple Watch has transformed my thinking about the direction of mobile and wearable computing.
It has become clear to me that we're all becoming cyborgs. A cyborg is a person whose normal human abilities are enhanced or magnified by technology. New earbuds give you super-hearing. Listen to this: The world of earbuds is about to be transformed by startups whose products let you customize what you hear.
Instead of earbuds, which typically deliver music and voice sounds through a wire, and hearing aids, which boost certain frequencies (lost to the elderly who listened to loud music through earbuds in their misspent youths), the new hearables -- wearable devices that live in your ears -- enable the customization of environmental sound.
You can cherry-pick which noises you want to hear better, and which you want silenced. Here's what you'll hear. New earbuds give you super-hearing. Problem loading page. What is MHL and how does it work with your TV? Problem loading page. Problem loading page. Bionic Humans: Top 10 Technologies. How Elements in Fireworks Make the Human Body Work (Infographic) By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist | July 01, 2015 05:13pm ET Fireworks get their colors from metal salts in the explosive mixture.
Some of the elements used in fireworks are also present in the human body, and without them, life would be impossible. Potassium, an element in purple fireworks, also plays a role in managing heart rhythm. In addition, it balances water and mineral content in the body, helps to build muscle, and controls blood pressure. Samsung Gear VR: Virtual Reality Tech May Have Nasty Side Effects. Samsung recently released its new virtual-reality headset, the Gear VR (powered by Oculus Rift), but the product comes with a foreboding list of possible health-related side effects.
The electronics giant cautions that people should stop using the Gear VR immediately if they experience seizures, loss of awareness, eye strain, nausea or "any symptoms similar to motion sickness. " In addition, the device is not recommended for children younger than 13. "Prolonged use should be avoided, as this could negatively impact hand-eye coordination, balance and multitasking ability," the lengthy disclaimer warns. Samsung also says the device should not be used in a moving vehicle, although the Australian airline Qantas recently announced it will soon be providing the headsets to first-class passengers on flights.
[Photos: Virtual Reality Puts Adults in a Child's World] What Is the Future of High Resolution? Tom Coughlin is an IEEE senior member and founder of Coughlin Associates.
Coughlin has over thirty years of experience in the consumer technology industry, with a vast engineering background in digital entertainment. He contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Today's viewers watch a variety of video content on a number of devices. Power of the Future: 10 Ways to Run the 21st Century. By Ker Than | May 05, 2005 07:39am ET Credit: DreamstimeScientists are racing to perfect greener sources of energy to improve the environment and reduce dependence on oil and other fossil fuels.
Some predict a hydrogen economy. Others say solar is the way to go. Wilder schemes involve sky-high wind turbines or antimatter engines. LiveScience explores the expectations, myths and realities of 10 top possibilities. Timeline: Earth's Precarious Future. Our planet and its inhabitants - including we humans - are in a precarious position as we approach Earth Day, April 22.
While global warming is widely accepted as a reality by scientists and many governments and industrial leaders, progress to curb greenhouse gases and other forms of pollution remains limited. The current economic climate will likely make pollution control efforts more difficult, analysts say. Recent studies, as well as the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have pointed to some of the likely effects of uncurbed greenhouse gas emissions: rising global temperatures, rising sea levels, Arctic sea ice melt, the disappear of glaciers, epic floods in some areas and intense drought in others.
What Is the Future of Computers? In 1958, a Texas Instruments engineer named Jack Kilby cast a pattern onto the surface of an 11-millimeter-long "chip" of semiconducting germanium, creating the first ever integrated circuit. Because the circuit contained a single transistor — a sort of miniature switch — the chip could hold one "bit" of data: either a 1 or a 0, depending on the transistor's configuration. Since then, and with unflagging consistency, engineers have managed to double the number of transistors they can fit on computer chips every two years. They do it by regularly halving the size of transistors. Gamma Rays: The Incredible, Hulking Reality. Gamma rays are blamed for making Bruce Banner the Incredible Hulk. But what are gamma rays and what can they really do? Gamma rays are the highest energy form of light.
The rainbow of visible light that we are most familiar with is just part of a far broader spectrum of light, the electromagnetic spectrum. Past the red end of the rainbow, where wavelengths get longer, are infrared rays, microwaves and radio waves, while beyond violet lie the shorter wavelengths of ultraviolet rays, X-rays and, finally, gamma rays. Oculus Rift: 5 Virtual Reality Uses Beyond Gaming. Social media behemoth Facebook just paid $2 billion for Oculus VR, the virtual reality company that makes headsets and software hotly coveted by gamers. But Facebook creator and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is setting his sights far beyond immersive, first-person shooter video games.
"After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences," Zuckerberg said in announcing the deal Tuesday afternoon (March 25). "Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face — just by putting on goggles in your home. " Zuckerberg isn't onto something new. For the U.S. Military, Video Games Get Serious. Today's U.S. military recruits enjoy an arsenal of simulators and video games that sharpen their fighting skills and may even protect them from the mental stresses of combat.
But experts caution that virtual reality could also help mask the reality of war. That has not stopped the military from embracing video games to recruit and train a young generation of gamers who typically play commercial games such as "Modern Warfare 2," which passed $1 billion in sales in January. How Unmanned Drone Aircraft Work (Infographic) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are remote-controlled aircraft that can carry cameras, sensors and weapons over enemy territory. The decade since 9/11 has seen these remote aircraft increase in prominence from speculative prototypes to America’s primary counterterrorism weapon. With a range of 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers), the largest drone, Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4 Global Hawk, cruises at high altitude, loitering over an area for up to 30 hours. Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 Quadricopter: A Drone Anyone Can Fly.
'Smart Clothing' Could Become New Wearable Gadgets.