Collaborate Disseminate
Some ten years ago, the authors of The Second Machine Age wrote that “computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power—the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments—what the steam engine and its descendants did f… Continue reading Will AI kill cybersecurity jobs?
Robots that move across both land and water are potentially very useful, but they also tend to be complex and rather slow. A new bio-inspired amphibious bot, however, utilizes a relatively simple mechanism to undulate at a good clip.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Efficient amphibious robot channels its inner snake and centipede
Return o’ the rookit, super-sneaky wireless spyware, credit card skimming, and patches galore. Listen and learn! Continue reading S3 Ep113: Pwning the Windows kernel – the crooks who hoodwinked Microsoft [Audio + Text]
It’s not the switching that’s the problem, it’s the switching of the switching! Continue reading COVID-bit: the wireless spyware trick with an unfortunate name
One bit per second makes the Voyager probe data rate seem blindingly fast. But it’s enough to break your security assumptions… Continue reading Breaching airgap security: using your phone’s compass as a microphone!
One might think that certain animals are only able to navigate within the environment in which their species evolved. According to a new study, however, goldfish are quite capable of steering a land-based “car” toward a land-based target, in order to g… Continue reading Goldfish learn to drive a car to get food
Latest episode – listen now! (And sign up for our forthcoming Live Malware Demo at the same time.) Continue reading S3 Ep55: Live malware, global encryption, dating scams, and secret emanations [Podcasts]
The rise of drug-resistant bacteria, which are superbugs that are evolving the ability to evade the defenses offered by our best medicines, is a growing threat to human health. Combating these dangers is going to take some inventive solutions, and rese… Continue reading Molecular tweezers pick apart the defenses of drug-resistant bacteria
The basilisk is also known as the”Jesus Christ Lizard,” due to the fact that it can run across the surface of the water. A new version of an existing type of robot does the same thing, plus it’s capable of traversing rough terrain.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Lizard-inspired amphibious robot runs across the water
Although medication does help control seizures in some epilepsy patients, it doesn’t have much of an effect on others. A new system is designed to help the latter group, by at least letting them know when seizures are about to occur.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Wearable system designed to predict seizures