Vint Cerf is known for a lot of things. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, and founder of the People-Centered Internet (PCI). He is also the winner of the national Medal of Technology, The Turing Award, and even The Presidential Medal of Freedom. The title that is most enduring, however, …
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday pledged to share with technology companies the technical details of the purported CIA hacking tools his organization described earlier this week. Photo: YouTube THANKS to a document dump by Wikileaks this week, the world now knows just how far governments can go to hack our devices to glean our …
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Eben Upton didn’t plan on becoming a computer engineer. It happened out of necessity. The 38-year-old inventor of Raspberry Pi—the credit card-sized computer that costs less than a movie ticket—recalls a day from childhood when he tried to print a homework assignment. The words came out in a jumble, forcing him to learn how tweak the switches on the printer’s …
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from the Russians-hacked-my-toaster.-Again. dept Thanks to a laundry list of lazy companies, everything from your Barbie doll to your tea kettle is now hackable. Worse, these devices are now being quickly incorporated into some of the largest botnets ever built, resulting in some of the most devastating DDoS attacks the internet has ever seen. In …
The internet as it currently stands is “not fit for purpose” to engage the connectivity of things and machines, according to Cisco ANZ CTO Kevin Bloch, as mobility requirements will be subverted by the Internet of Things (IoT) and a complete re-engineering will need to take place. “As we move to more machines being connected …
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Amazon.com (AMZN) has a potential megahit on its hands with the Echo smart-home device and its Alexa companion — a voice activated, digital home assistant — the combination of which could attain $10 billion in revenue by 2020, an analyst report said Friday. RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Mahaney said a survey of Amazon customers …
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Antenova’s new NB-IoT antenna “Latona.” Antenova Ltd., manufacturer of antennas and RF antenna modules for machine-to-machine and the Internet of Things (IoT), has developed a new antenna for the new narrow-band IoT (NB-IoT) standard that was ratified in 2016. The company showcased the antenna at Embedded World in Nuremberg in March. The antenna is small, measuring 20 …
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