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Hardware Jan 6, 2014

NVIDIA mobile processor paves the way for self-driving cars

NVIDIA's new Tegra K1 mobile processor will help self-driving cars advance from the realm of research into the mass market with its automotive-grade version of the same GPU that powers the world's 10 most energy-efficient ...

Engineering Dec 24, 2013

Researchers bring radio-frequency identification technology to the supply chain

In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology—wireless readers and data-transmitting tags—to the supply chain. This meant companies would be able ...

Software Dec 16, 2013

Valve releases both Steam Machine and SteamOS

(Phys.org) —Video game maker Valve Corporation has officially made SteamOS available for download for anyone who wishes to do so. At the same time, the company announced that it has also shipped Steam Machines to 300 preselected ...

Security Dec 5, 2013

Hacker modifies toy drone to hack and take over other toy drones

(Phys.org) —Well known hacker Samy Kamkar has figured out a way to program a store-bought drone to take away control of other store-bought drones from their owners, and then to give the enslaved drones commands of its own. ...

Software Dec 2, 2013

Symantec discovers worm that targets systems running Linux—threat to other devices

(Phys.org) —Antivirus company Symantec has announced that it has discovered a new worm on the loose—one that attacks vulnerabilities in computer systems running Linux. Thus far, they report, the threat is minimal due ...

Software Nov 22, 2013

Testing cloud invention to prevent natural disaster outages

When a major weather event occurs, such as last year's deadly and destructive Super Storm Sandy, data network operators may have just a few hours or even less to protect critical communications systems before disaster strikes, ...

Computer Sciences Nov 13, 2013

SDSC uses Meteor Raspberry Pi cluster to teach parallel computing

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, have built a Linux cluster using 16 Raspberry Pi computers as part of a program to teach children and adults the basics ...

Hardware Nov 5, 2013

LLNL, Intel, Cray produce big data machine

(Phys.org) —Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in partnership with Intel and Cray, today announced a unique high-performance computing (HPC) cluster that will serve research scientists at all three institutions and ...

Security Nov 1, 2013

Security researcher discovers badBIOS malware that jumps using microphone and speakers

(Phys.org) —Highly respected Canadian security expert Dragos Ruiu has been fighting, he claims, an unknown bit of malware that that appears to run on Windows, Mac OS X, BSD and Linux, for approximately three years. After ...

Software Oct 22, 2013

Key features of Apple's new OS based on technology from UMass Amherst and Amherst College

With the release today of Apple's new operating system, "Mavericks," computer science professors and long-time friends Emery Berger at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Scott Kaplan of Amherst College are hoisting ...

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