A single computer chip has transmitted a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fibre-optic cable — enough bandwidth to download 230 million photographs in that time, and more traffic than travels through the entire internet’s backbone network per second. Asbjorn Arvad Jorgensen at the Technical University of Read more…
Remember back in 2014 when every iTunes music library suddenly started showing U2’s new album, Songs of Innocence? In a new memoir (excerpted by the Guardian), U2’s lead singer Bono says he’s very sorry — and explains exactly how it happened: “Free music?” asked Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, Read more…
It’s the tale of a company manufacuring precision card-shuffling machines for casinos — and a gang of hustlers who used a hidden video camera to film the shuffler’s insides. “The images, transmitted to an accomplice outside in the casino parking lot, were played back in slow motion to figure out Read more…
Sure, you may be trying to cut down on screen time by tracking your minutes in an app on the very same smartphone you’re trying to unplug from, but how about a smartphone that doesn’t even have a screen to stare at in the first place? Enter MyManu’s Titan screenless Read more…
Computer science professor Moshe Y. Vardi is the Senior Editor of Communications of the ACM. And he’s concerned about the state of cybersecurity today: In 2017, I wrote: “So here we are, 70 years into the computer age and after three ACM Turing Awards in the area of cryptography (but Read more…
“Auto industry insiders have waxed poetic about the safety benefits of the ‘software-defined vehicle’ — which also enables revenue-boosting data collection and subscriptions that make it safer to be an auto executive too,” writes Wired. “Less talked about are the consequences of computerized cars at the auto shop.” Fixing complex Read more…
As NPR has reported, machines need clear rules in order to function, and it’s hard for them to figure out what exactly is going on in those messy piles That’s not to say that it’s completely impossible. University of California, Berkeley professor Pieter Abbeel spent years teaching a robot how Read more…