Day: May 9, 2019

Facebook’s Oculus VR leader Hugo Barra is stepping down – CNET

The head of Facebook’s virtual reality headset division says he’s staying at Facebook, moving on to focus on partnerships. Longtime Facebooker Erick Tseng will be taking over. …read more Source:: CNet


A War is Brewing Over Lithium Mining at the Edge of Death Valley

An anonymous reader shares a report: A small Cessna soared high above the Mojave Desert recently, its engine growling in the choppy morning air. As the aircraft skirted the mountains on the edge of Death Valley National Park, a clutch of passengers and environmentalists peered intently at a broiling salt flat thousands of feet below….


Exclusive: OnePlus 7 Pro will fix this one thing that disappointed fans – CNET

Users were so annoyed with OnePlus, some took to Reddit to petition. …read more Source:: CNet


How the Skills Gap Strains – and Constrains – Security Pros

New ISSA/ESG survey underscores increasing pressures and security fallout of a strapped security team. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Hackers Take Over IoT Devices to ‘Click’ on Ads

A video interview and Q&A with IoT specialist Dan Demeter of Kaspersky Lab. …read more Source:: Threatpost


512GB SSDs’ Price-Per-GB Estimated To Fall Below $0.1 and Hit an All-Time Low This Year End

According to research by DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, the NAND flash industry this year is clearly exhibiting signs of oversupply, and SSD suppliers have gotten themselves into a price war, causing SSD prices for PC OEMs to take a dive. From a post: Average contract prices for 512GB and 1TB SSDs have a chance…


Red Hat shoves OpenShift in VMware’s software-defined data centre stack

New reference architecture rolls together containers and VMs Virtualization kingpins Red Hat and VMware have linked arms on a reference architecture that combines their software.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


The Two-Dimensional Stepper Motor

Over on hackaday.io and deep in the Hackaday Prize, a lot of cool people are playing around with the possibilities of putting coils in printed circuit boards. On the face of it, it makes sense: drawing spirals on a PCB gets you an electromagnet. This allows you to do all sorts of crazy things. You…


How to Close the Critical Cybersecurity Talent Gap

If we don’t change our ways, the gap will keep getting worse. Outside-the-box thinking and new techniques are required, and here are a few ways to get started. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Avengers: Endgame, Toy Story 4, Detective Pikachu: All your must-see trailers – CNET

They’re here to blow your mind. …read more Source:: CNet