[ad_1] When most people think of hackers they think of movie tropes; hooded teens stood on street corners uttering “I’m in” in hushed tones before taking down the evil corporation. Or maybe we’ve just watched Hackers too many times.  In the real world, hackers are a blight, stealing sensitive information and shutting down essential services.Read more about Behind the code: a conversation with an ethical hacker[…]

[ad_1] The new family of antennas has been engineered to operate without de-tuning on metal surfaces – or where the product housing is mainly metal – a situation where it is normally extremely difficult for an antenna to operate. “There are very few antennas if any, that are as thin as our Zenon product, andRead more about Antenova metal-mounted antennas[…]

[ad_1] Update: This Sonos speakers deal ends at midnight on Sunday. There are four different discounts outlined on this page for the US, and others worldwide. Sonos deals are few and far between because the speakers enjoy good brand recognition. It’s basically the Apple of speakers – at least for now. Sonos is offering aRead more about Sonos speakers offer you a rare $100 discount on multi-room audio[…]

[ad_1] “Semiconductor equipment billings for North American headquartered equipment manufacturers increased for the fourth month in a row and are 42% higher than the same month last year,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, “the strength of this cycle continues to be driven by Memory and Foundry manufacturers as the industry invests in 3D NAND andRead more about SEMI billings up 42%[…]

[ad_1] You can check into some unusual locations and maybe get your accommodation on the cheap if you choose Airbnb over a standard hotel or hostel, but on the other hand you’re putting a lot of trust in the owner of the property. Hosts also have to trust guests to leave everything as they foundRead more about Airbnb wants to make it harder for you to get scammed[…]

[ad_1] Samsung and Apple still lead the pack but their unit market share is slipping. In third place comes BBK Electronics with its cOPPO and Vivo brands which are the two fastest growing smartphone suppliers with each  growing almost 90%. Samsung and Apple have dominated the smartphone market from 2014 through 2016. In total, theseRead more about China has seven out of top ten smartphone vendors[…]

[ad_1] Update: Waiting for a MacBook Air successor? The latest entry on our list draws inspiration from Apple’s thin-and-light without feeling like a knock-off. Read on to number 3 find out more about the Asus ZenBook UX310! Although they were originally conceived to compete with the likes of Apple’s MacBook Air, Ultrabooks now stand onRead more about The best Ultrabooks of 2017: top thin and light laptops reviewed[…]

[ad_1] The experiment used two satellite-to-ground down-links with a summed length varying from 1,600 to 2,400km. “So far, entanglement distribution has only been achieved at a distance up to ~100km due to photon loss in optical fibres or terrestrial free space,” said the Chinese Academy of Sciences. “Another approach makes use of satellite and space-basedRead more about Chinese send entangled photons 1,200km[…]

[ad_1] Picked by Jon Porter, UK Home Technology Writer “I was entirely prepared for Insomniac’s Spider-Man to steal the show for me. Although the Batman Arkham series is often cited as the series that showed us all how good superhero games could be, I always had a soft spot for the Treyarch-produced Spiderman 2 onRead more about Our staff's favorite games from E3 2017[…]

[ad_1] “We can form a single device that can perform the functions of all three devices,” says researcher Ji Ung Lee. The device is made of 2-D tungsten diselenide (WSe2), a new transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductor. This class of materials is promising for electronics applications because the bandgap is tunable by controlling the thickness, andRead more about SUN-Poly makes device that can be a pin diode, a MosFET or a BJT[…]