Archive for January, 2017
Facebook Inc. is giving users a new way to keep their social network accounts secure. On Thursday, it announced it was introducing a new form of two-factor authentication that relies on hardware dongles – a…
Personal Belief on any subject is not prudent to a conversation in science, this, an age-old tenant of the institution is now — more than ever — central to the discourse on climate change. And…
Although originally established 50 years ago to spearhead military research and development, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been the creative force behind many things civilians now take for granted, such as the…
Donald Trump showed off his IT security expertise at a New Year’s Eve Party, suggesting to party goers that the best way to keep secrets from hackers is a huge airgap. “No computer is safe,”…
Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a rare genetic disorder that sabotages the retina’s ability to respond to light by disabling rod photoreceptors. The National Eye Institute estimates that one in 4,000 people around the world are…
Theoretical physicists have just theorized an alarming proposition, a galaxy wide self-destruct button. This cosmic delete button exists in the very fabric of our fundamental understanding of nature. To be specific, it’s a quantum field…
The rise of voice activated Artificial Intelligence blossomed in 2016, enabling users to achieve various ends by simply delegating the task in a conversational manner to a virtual assistant. Enabling users to order Taco Bell…
Ransomware threats will grow in 2017 2016 came to a close as one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, with the upset of the century in our presidential election and a general feeling…
The pain of childbirth is completely undeniable, to those who have gone through it, and even those who have not. Therefore, there has been a massive push to try and mitigate the pain of childbirth,…
The technological innovation of the last decade has been undeniably powerful, giving way to the smart phone, computers, and globalization. But possibly one of the most socially impactful devices to be born of the technological…