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Cybersecurity Report: Elite Hackers, Or Human Error?
News April 15, 2015
Two new cybersecurity reports were released this week and they brought some surprising news: hackers don’t have to be great at what they do… employees do the hard work of infiltrating a network for them. The reports–conducted separately by Verizon Communications and Symantec–showed that the biggest threat to business... Read more
Ericsson To Cut 2000 Jobs in Research and Development
Internet March 15, 2015
Research and Development are the key parts to any organisation that is based around technology. Especially so in the case of hardware manufactures. It does beg the question then, why has Ericsson, the world’s largest mobile network vendor, planning to make 2,200 redundancies in Sweden, mainly in the R&D... Read more
I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but everywhere you go it seems like people are using their smartphones. Maybe they’re looking at their Facebook newsfeed, maybe they’re snapchatting, or, maybe they’re just taking a picture or two. (Or, God forbid, they might actually be using the phone... Read more
Social networks have created ways to connect with people all around the world, to reconnect with people that you haven’t spoken to in years and to find new people on the Internet, but most people use social networks, like Facebook, to keep in contact with close friends, who only... Read more
Military Design ‘Transformer’ Aircraft
News July 14, 2014
The UK defence and aerospace contractor, BAE Systems, have unwrapped several concept designs, which it envisions as possible tools for the military in the future. If these designs are anything to go by, I think Shia Labeouf or Mark Wahlberg need to be ‘de-briefed,’ as the battlefields of tomorrow are... Read more
Have you ever wanted to be a NASA scientist? Or maybe you fancy doing some freelance work for them? Would you work for the agency for $6 Million? One of the research areas that NASA is currently involved in is the Asteroid Redirect Mission. This particular avenue of research is... Read more
Researchers Fit Trackers To Bees Backs
News January 21, 2014
It is a mystery why we are seeing a massive decline in bee populations. The major concern comes from the fact that bees pollinate one-third of the world’s crops and so researchers are keen to discover why they are dying out. Australia’s National Science Agency has come up with... Read more
Can Texting Improve Education?
Internet November 11, 2013
British researchers are to conduct studies to test whether pupils’ texting, using the Internet or using iPad‘s can help improve their exam results. The University of Bristol and Harvard University have been awarded a £3.5 million grant to investigate the effects of digital technology on the grades of disadvantaged... Read more
Scientists Grow Human Heart Capable of Beating Autonomously
News August 21, 2013
According to Nature Communications a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, in the USA, has successfully grown human heart tissue capable of beating autonomously. For anyone suffering from a cardiovascular disease, or similar heart problems, this is interesting news that could one day bring the research into transplantable replacement... Read more
HTC One Is Worst Smartphone To Repair, Study Finds
Mobile March 31, 2013
The HTC One has earned the dubious honor of becoming iFixit’s first ever smartphone to receive a repairability score of 1 out of 10. HTC delayed its 2013 flagship phone by more than a month due to parts shortages and yield issues, now the company gets to deal with... Read more
Technically known as alkali-aluminosilicate sheet glass, Gorilla Glass by Corning has given electronic device owners much more confidence in handling our devices. I suppose that is a good way of saying that we have a not-so-free pass to be a little more negligent. That’s because this material is practically... Read more
Google Acquires Neural Net Developer DNNresearch
News March 13, 2013
Google has agreed to acquire neural net developer DNNresearch. The company, founded by University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton and grad students, Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever, was sold for an undisclosed sum. The startup was incorporated last year and very little is known about the groups research. In fact... Read more
Are Teens Losing Interest in Facebook?
NewsSocial Media March 6, 2013
Currently at 900 million users, Facebook is unquestionably the most visited online social networking site. But for how long? Facebook has no real worries of losing its loyal adult users. In fact according to research firm Nielsen, users in the 50-64 age group made up nearly 1/4th of the... Read more
Social Media Gets Into Fashion
Internet February 20, 2013
New York Fashion Week is always a place for new ideas and changing trends. One of the biggest trends to make a mark this year at New York Fashion Week is technology, specifically social media. Designers and audience members alike are flocking to the tools of social media to... Read more
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