Electrical Engineers Break Power and Distance Barriers for Fiber Optic Communication leading to faster internet

In turn, optic signals can now travel for longer distances without seeing deprivation in quality. Todays fiber optic systems are a little like quicksand. With quicksand, the more you struggle, the faster you sink. The new findings effectively remove the need for electronic regenerators placed occasionally along the fiber link. These regenerators are in fact supercomputers and must be applied to each channel in the transmission. In an optical fiber, information is transmitted through multiple communication channels that function at different frequencies....

June 29, 2015 · 1 min · 100 words · Jessica Ware

From serving ‘Latte’ to being a part of $24 billion startup

While in high school, Curtis used to serve up hot drinks to businessmen at the coffee shop. He then started pestering the owner of a new tech company that was across the street for an internship. Addressing a crowd of 3,000 ambitious tech employees at Internapalooza, Curtis said Its okay to be shameless sometimes. You just have to go get it. Dont be afraid to do a little bit of sh-twork, Curtis said....

June 29, 2015 · 1 min · 140 words · Susan Huber

Hackers exploit Zero day Magento e-commerce vulnerability to steal credit card details

As many as 200,000 websites use Magento e-commerce platform, which is owned by eBay. The exploit code Sucuri analyzed is a SQL injection attack, which inserts a new admin_user into a database. Cid wrote the exploit uses the usernames vpwq and defaultmanager. The presence of those names on a system could indicate a successful attack. source: www.techworm.net

June 29, 2015 · 1 min · 57 words · Marcus Bass

Images of OnePlus 2 surface online, show mysterious new features

From the looks of it, it seems like a fully functional version of Android. The bezels on the sides seem thinner and the corners look a lot curvier. Some specifications of the forthcoming smartphone was also shared by One Plus. It recently disclosed that the smartphone will feature a reversible, USB key in-C connector. OnePlus had earlier confirmed that it would be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor version 2....

June 29, 2015 · 1 min · 86 words · Brittney Sandoval

Mysterious footage shows THREE UFOs leaving Earth as NASA unexpectedly cuts the live feed

Mysterious footage depicting three UFOs racing past Earth has has been going viral on YouTube. The 4-minute video titled UFO Mysteries: UFOs, Angels Or Biological Creatures Seen Leaving The Earth? was uploaded a week ago and has received over 200,000 views so far. The uploaded video elicited some sharp reactions from online community, especially, NASA butchering the feed. Caught them red-handed leaving Earths orbit, wrote commenter Michael Clottey. On its part, NASA has been silent about the whole issue of curious lights appearing in the sky....

June 29, 2015 · 1 min · 97 words · Melissa Garcia

Researchers from UC Berkeley design new cockroach-inspired robot which can walk through obstacles

UC Berkeley researchers develop a Roach-inspired robot that can squeeze into tight spaces. At times, inspiration comes from the strangest places like kitchen floors, bathtubs, and dumpsters. Nature itself has got so many designs and scientists are mimicking them to make better robots. They have figured out how to make robots leap over hurdles, and recover when they lose limbs. As a result, the robot was then able to cross difficult terrain without hi-tech sensors or computational analysis....

June 29, 2015 · 1 min · 191 words · Kelly Carter

Starting next year YOU could own a commercial jetpack for $150,000

The Martin Jetpack is made from carbon fibre and aluminium. It can carry a payload of up to 265 pounds and reach a top speed of 45 MPH. Coker told Reuters: I think the first responders will see that as a massive improvement to their capability. Tester working on the Martin Jetpack simulator Naturally for the ambulance service getting to a point of importance of rescuing people in the shortest possible time....

June 29, 2015 · 1 min · 92 words · Heather Carey

The winner of the Google’s $44 million Lunar XPrize moon shoot race to be declared soon

We are not in it for the prize alone. For example, we might explore a lunar cave for possible habitat location. That data would really sell. The vehicle is thrown by four wheels decorated with paddles to secure purchase on the moons fine-grained dust. Hakamada said that a 360-degree camera for collecting detailed images has been placed on the top of the rover. Moonrakers camera provides definition that is nearly a million times greater....

June 29, 2015 · 1 min · 109 words · Michael Alvarado

Angry woman rips apart ATM machine after she believed it had swallowed her card

She screamed at the machine to give back her card and also asked the passers-by for help. However, no cards were found in the ATM in Jilin province, according to bank clerks. The woman has been taken for psychiatric testing to the local mental facility. The whole incident lasted for around 10 minutes as shown in the surveillance footage. source: www.techworm.net

June 28, 2015 · 1 min · 61 words · Kristine Freeman

Exposing the Whois Data by ICANN can place user’s privacy in jeopardy

A message received from one domain owner read: Im a single female and live alone. I dont want my personal address available to every pervert/troll/angered citizen that wants it after visiting my small website. Seemingly innocent topics, like vegan cooking, can spark outrage in certain individuals. As per reports from EFF, theU.S. Steve Metalitz, under the cover of Coalition for Online Accountability has presented the proposal to Congress. Anonymity also is a must for the whistle blowers who are known to expose crime, corruption and politicians....

June 28, 2015 · 1 min · 173 words · Christina Gutierrez

Google tests new artificial intelligence chatbot

Google researchers, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le built a system that could examine the existing conversations. They asked the bot everything from meaning of life to boring IT questions to movie dialogues. Instead of using rules to build a conversational engine, we use a machine learning approach. We let the machine learn from data rather than hand-coding the rules, Le said. The responses were instead amusing, impressive and unnerving. Machine:To serve the greater good....

June 28, 2015 · 1 min · 209 words · Kendra Alexander

Sony Xperia Z3+ another costly smartphone that could just sink without a trace

Sony launched its latest flagship smartphone in India, the Xperia Z3+, priced at Rs. 55,990 ($881). Sonys latest offering Xperia Z3+ which is being sold as Xperia Z4 is exhorbitantly priced smartphone. Sony has launched Xperia Z3+, its new flagship phone in India at Rs 55,990. The phone will be available starting today. However, only the 32GB variant will be available in India. The Xperia Z3+ was announced late-May. There are no differences between the devices either than web link bands they support, and their naming....

June 28, 2015 · 1 min · 143 words · Kyle Allen

SpaceX explodes after take-off

The SpaceX tweeted just moment ago that the mission was unsuccessful The vehicle experienced an anomaly on ascent. Dragon has been super-reliable. source: www.techworm.net

June 28, 2015 · 1 min · 24 words · Elizabeth Riggs