VxWorks

Serious Flaw Discovered in the OS used by Over a Billion Devices

There’s a simple vulnerability inside an extensively used operating system, although not one that most would be aware of, known as VxWorks. It happens to be the same software program used to control components...
satellite hacking

Russian Spy Team Accused of Hacking Satellite Data

In case you’re a state-sponsored hacker siphoning data from selected computer systems, the very last thing you need is for somebody to find your command-and-control server and shut it down, finishing...
video

Video: Ubuntu Touch Transforms into an Ubuntu Desktop

The fact that you could see it work as a desktop is weird Seeing Ubuntu Touch transform right into a small desktop version of the distribution is somewhat weird, nevertheless it's also...
Graphene

Graphene Converts Heat into Electrical Energy

Graphene, an allotrope of carbon, was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov. In 2010, they had been awarded the Nobel...
Clear solar cell

Buildings to be powered by Solar Windows

Manhattan has roughly forty seven thousand buildings with around 10.7 million windows, based on a 2013 estimate from The New York Times. Now think about if just 1%, that's 100,700, of these...

Sensitive stuff that goes boom, even if touched by a mosquito

When a feather drops on it, or a mosquito lands on top of nitrogen triiodide – Booom! – an instantaneous dark purple or violet explosion occurs. It's because nitrogen triiodide is...
Darkode before takedown

Student faces 10 years for Android Malware

Morgan C. Culbertson, a student from Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday admitted in federal court to designing and attempting to promote malware that allowed users to take control of other people’s...
Augur info

Peer-to-Peer Predictions: The Greatest Gambling Platform in History?

An online gambling platform could do to the neighborhood bookie what electric refrigerators did to the ice delivery man. Coming this fall, Augur will allow participants to wager money on any future...
CERN's Large Hadron Collider

Subatomic Particles that Appear to defy Standard Model Particle Physics

Subatomic particles have been discovered that seem to defy the Standard Model of particle physics. The team working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have discovered proof of leptons decaying at completely...
RIP flash

Flash ads will stop working in Chrome from Sept 1st, 2015

In case your advertisements are not on the search giant's network (Adsense), they better be in HTML5 – or they're lifeless to Chrome. If they are already on the Adsense, then...