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Apple Hires Top Virtual Reality Expert
Virtual reality is one of the big developments in recent years, with much hype surrounding Facebook’s soon-to-be-released Oculus Rift. Alongside this, other companies including Google, Sony and HTC developing their own VR offerings, while Apple seems conspicuously absent. This could be set to change soon, with their hiring of Doug…
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See How This Robot Is Able to Improve Its ‘Mini-Robots’ with Each Generation
Researchers at the University of Cambridge seem to be studying how evolution took place and are apparently using a ‘mother’ robot for that. The robotic arm in question is able to build miniaturized robots from a selection of blocks equipped with small motors, check their progress on the table and…
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Researchers Prove How They Can Stop a Corvette with a Simple Text Message
Since a couple of hackers found a way to remotely control a Crysler, we’ve heard a lot of similar successful attempts on other vehicles. The latest comes from researchers over at the University of California, who have taken an interest in third-party devices coupled to the TCUs. The TCUs are…
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Stationary Electric Vehicle Batteries May Be Getting Much Cheaper Than Anticipated
Have you heard the big headline in the electric car market? No? Well, some of you might have heard that Tesla is now selling its own stationery storage batteries. But you might ask, how is it a big thing? Those types of batteries were around for years, but they have…
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FBI Claims Security Researcher Was Able to Issue Commands to Engines
Security on planes has always been an issue, be it from people leaving their electronic devices on during flights or people making threats via social media. So when the FBI received a message from a security researcher claiming to have hacked an in-flight plane you can see why they might…
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Astronauts Might Be Able to Play with Lasers from the International Space Station Soon
According to ScienceDirect, a few researchers have come up with a plan to turn the International Space Station into a defence system against asteroids or other ‘orbiting debris’. How cool is that? Get a paid vacation in space… float around the room… and have some lasers to play around with!…
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Researcher Found Flaw Which Could Have Been Used to Erase Every Video on YouTube
Software developer Kamil Hismatullin has discovered a security flaw in YouTube that apparently granted him the power to delete any video he wanted. This means that he had the power to delete each and every video on the website, but don’t be alarmed, he had no desire to do so.…
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Internet Access Makes You Think You Are Smarter than You Actually Are
Yale University has made a study regarding the psychological impact of searching for answers on the internet, having some interesting results regarding people and how well prepared they believe to be. “The internet is such a powerful environment, where you can enter any question, and you basically have access to…
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Scientists Come up with Perfume That Smells Better the More You Sweat
Scientist at Queen’s University Belfast have apparently developed the first-ever perfume delivery system which ensures that the more a person sweats, the better they will smell. It is said that the perfume releases more of its aroma when it comes into contact with moisture, leading to the person smelling nicer…
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Researchers Say Facebook Tracking Violates European Union Privacy Law
Facebook had a lot of privacy concerns in the past, and it looks like they just keep on coming. Researchers from the Belgium data protection agency have also determined that Facebook’s latest web tracking policy violates the European Union privacy law. What Facebook does is it uses cookies to track…
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Hacker Diverts Traffic from 19 ISPs to Steal a Large Sum of Bitcoins
It is said that researchers over at Dell’s SecureWorks security division have uncovered a series of hacking attempts in which a bitcoin thief redirected a portion of online traffic from 19 ISPs, including data from Amazon, DigitalOcean and OVH, in order to steam digital currency from a group of bitcoin…
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Yahoo Starting to Add User Encryption to Its Email Service
Yahoo has announced that it will offer end-to-end encryption for its email services. The recent change seems to have been triggered by Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks, more specifically the revelation and extent to which hackers exploit weak security in companies. Back in April, Yahoo has hired Alex Stamos, a respected…
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Nvidia Researcher Discovers a Way to Quadruple Future VR Headset Resolution
A researcher from NVIDIA has apparently discovered a new manufacturing technique which could quadruple the perceived resolution of virtual reality gear in the future. The technique in question is called ‘display cascading’ and uses cascade displays (of course). Nvidia is said to already have produced a prototype of a headset…
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Revolutionary Chemical Iris Could Bring Smaller Cameras to Smartphones
A normal iris has physical blades which move in order to change the amount of light entering the lens. More light enters when wider and less when closing down. The same principle is applied to cameras found in some smartphones nowadays too. A new chemical iris however tends to change…
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Forget the T-800, MIT and Google’s Boston Dynamics Are Said To Work on T-1000 Robots
There have been talk of future robots resembling the T-800 model from the Terminator series for some time now. Yet, no company has even arrived close to a design, yet alone a prototype of such a robot. While we won’t see any T-800’s running around anytime soon, we might see…
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