Day: October 8, 2018

IBM Pushes Beyond 7 Nanometers, Uses Graphene To Place Nanomaterials on Wafers

An anonymous reader shares a report: Four years ago, IBM announced that it was investing $3 billion over the next five years into the future of nanoelectronics with a broad project it dubbed “7nm and Beyond.” With at least one major chipmaker, GlobalFoundries, hitting the wall at the 7-nm node, IBM is forging ahead, using…


SIEM, UBA, UEBA… If you’re suffering netsec acronym overload, then here’s our handy guide

Is there a difference and does it matter? Comment In a little more than 20 years, what quaintly used to be called “network security” has gone from simple firewalling and VLANs to talk of analytics driven by self-learning machine intelligence and AI. How should we make sense of such a dramatic jump?… …read more Source::…


Netflix is buying the New Mexico studio where Walter White buried his barrels of money – CNET

Netflix’s next step to becoming a Hollywood giant leads to Albuquerque. …read more Source:: CNet


Google sets new rules for third-party apps to access Gmail data

All Gmail third-party apps with full access to Gmail user data will need to re-submit for a review by February 15, 2018, or be removed. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Hubble Telescope Hit By Mechanical Failure

The Hubble Space Telescope is operating with only essential functions after it lost one of the gyroscopes needed to point the spacecraft. From a report: The observatory, described as one of the most important scientific instruments ever created, was placed in “safe mode” over the weekend, while scientists try to fix the problem. Hubble had…


Diminutive 2018 Kia Rio picks up big safety accolade – Roadshow

It’s proof that small cars can be plenty safe. …read more Source:: CNet


Doctor Who earns best ratings in decade, Whittaker gets Barbie doll – CNET

A day after Jodie Whittaker takes on the iconic BBC role in the show’s most watched episode, her sonic-screwdriver-toting Barbie is available to order. …read more Source:: CNet


Knock Your 3D Printer Down To 2D

Hackers love 3D printers. In fact, they might love them a little too much. We hope know we aren’t be the only ones who couldn’t turn down a good deal on an overseas printer (or two). But when you’re not pumping out plastic boats and other PLA dust collectors, what are you supposed to do…


London’s Radio Pirates Changed Music. Then Came the Internet.

Earlier this month, The New York Times ran a story which looks at the ways a network of illegal radio stations changed British music, and wonders where young people are going to make culture now, now that the internet is killing off the pirate radio. An excerpt from the story: Ofcom, the British communications regulator,…


Seeing Audi’s E-Tron motors get made is like catnip for engineering nerds – Roadshow

The video shows a host of slow-moving orange robots carefully assembling the heart of Audi’s new electric SUV. …read more Source:: CNet