The Magnetic Field is Shifting – Effecting Weather

BREACHING DEFENSES One of the main things space organizations consider in making spacecraft is resilience against the harshness of space weather. Solar winds and interstellar radiation bombard satellites and probes with large amounts of biologically toxic radiation and plasma. Luckily, Earth’s magnetic shield does a good job of protecting us from these dangers. But we may not […]

Cyberattacks- What You Need to Know

THE CHANCELLOR, PHILLIP HAMMOND, has announced a £1.9bn investment in Britain’s cybersecurity strategy. The money is to be used to protect the country from hacking attacks on all fronts, from opportunistic raids on individuals and businesses to focused cyberwar led by state-run teams. Hammond has promised a big sum, but the world of hacking is easily […]

News From CES- The Future is Here

AT THE CES EARLIER this year, Panasonic – the Japanese giant – unveiled its new vision for the future of television. Made completely of a transparent plane of glass, the invisible TV disappears when turned off completely indistinguishable from an ordinary piece of glass. Just last week at the annual Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies […]

Machine Learning is on The Fast Track

MACHINE LEARNING: THE FIRST STEP   Understanding machine learning is quite easy. The idea is to train algorithms on large databases to make them able to predict results from new data. Here’s a simple example: We want to predict the age of a tree thanks to its diameter. This database contains only three kinds of […]

New Age of Passwords Involves Brain Passwords?

As far as computer security is concerned, passcodes, Touch ID, and iris scanning are so September 2016. These days, it seems all the cool kids are looking at brain wave detection as the next frontier in unbeatable passwords. Brain passwords are a thing of the future and might be the most secure option to date. That’s certainly what Abdul […]

Baltimore Surveillance Programs Coming to A Neighborhood Near You?

IF YOU LIVE in Baltimore, you may have the feeling that you’re being watched. You are. Baltimore Police track your cellphone use without a warrant. They secretly film the entire city from the air. And as concerns about the uses and privacy implications of that next-generation surveillance tech have mounted, these domestic spying scandals also raise another […]

We are Going to Mars!

FOR SOME TIME now the spotlight for everything Mars has been on NASA and SpaceX, but all the while Europe has had a secret gambit for the red planet as well. One of the top contenders that hasn’t gotten near the attention is the ExoMars Schiaparelli spacecraft     …which is landing on Mars this […]

“Times are a Changin’ …For the Better”

For those that were not able to make it to the Protek Client Lunch and Learn last month, we wanted to send out a recap of the items that were covered. The theme for our event this year was “Change.” “The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”  Charles […]

The Hacking of Yahoo – What You Need To Know

LAST WEEK, YAHOO! announced that it was hacked pretty massively in 2014. Over half a billion usernames and passwords were affected, making this the largest data breach of all time.   Yahoo! claimed it was a government that did it: A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc. has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was […]