February 7th 2016 Drones can be used for a number of purposes from selfies to beaming internet, to saving lives, the possibilities are endless! Recently drones have been used where human life can be at danger such as exploring dangerous environment looking for survivors or disarming a bomb. What i’m a great fan of in this…
February 7th 2016 CVE-2016-1524 can be used to gain “God-Mode” on a netgear enterprise router. Essentially this could allow a remote attack to gain access to the router, globally and potentially monitor traffic along with causing an outage within a data centre. This could end up costing a company thousands to millions of pounds with…
February 5th 2016 Facebook has changed the way we communicate. They have blasted the so called six degrees of separation and reduced it to 3.57 due to their vast social network which means you are only 3.57 on average contacts away from talking to everyone on facebook. Technology like this is great and can mean…
February 4th 2016 AMD Eye condition mostly affects people over 50 and leads to almost blindness. People become unable to identify faces and find it very difficult to perform every day normal tasks. This is a very common problem in people aged 50 and over and affects part of the retina. NVISION have performed surgery to…
February 4th 2016 Github is relied on by thoundands of IT companies experienced an outage on 28th January 2016, resulting in those companies unable to work, therefore loss of revenue. Whats interesting is that github’s internal communication system that engineers use also relies on the same data centre which delayed engineers communications. Surely it would have been…
February 2nd 2016 BT is the largest telephone infrastructure, and thus broadband provider in the UK. Some would consider them a monopoly. Whats interesting about this article is how BT had let broadband to go down for thousands of people at once. Furthermore BT had taken this as a serious incident because they launched two investigations, one…
January 27th 2016 Although google and facebook provide a valuable service, this doesn’t come free. They’re are using our details for data mining purposes, which some could say is one of the more valuable things on the planet. The problem here is that can our details then be called our own personal details if Google/Facebook are…
January 27th 2016 AMD the oem are giving open access to their hardware allowing for better high performance computing enabling cheaper high performance applications. High performance applications can include Advanced Medical research or running very complex simulations. What I like about this is that this research being done could potentially save lives and I do…
January 20th 2016 Microsoft is launching an educational version of Minecraft. Often younger kids can struggle at school because they’re bored of the standard class structure, but if you can make learning fun then children will do that. What’s great about this Microsoft has fully understood this. They’ve take a fun and interactive game, and given…