By ShannonPerry The Pew Research Center Internet Project, one of the current initiatives overseen by Pew Research, is attempting to mark the World Wide Web’s 25th anniversary with a thorough look at the Internet’s future. The most recent report is called the Internet of Things, a phrase for mode...
via Pleasanton Weekly News In an initiative that aims to boost the country’s economic competitiveness, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories have opened the first phase of their new 110-acre “open campus” that will provide greater public access to research and advance...
via Fox News Nearly every smartphone running the Google Android platform today is readily vulnerable to data snoops and cyberthieves, who can easily pluck information from them over ordinary Wi-Fi networks, German security experts discovered. And as consumers increasingly rely upon their phones for ...
via The Week Our society relies on the “invisible utility” known as GPS,says David Hambling at the New Scientist. Cell phones, ATMs, in-car navigation systems — they all rely on satellite signals. If they were suddenly jammed, chaos could ensue. But what would it take to jam GPS signa...