When it comes to education, technology holds a critically important position. Yet, many students are unable to afford a computer, a huge disadvantage in today’s tech-savvy world. Google now plans to resolve this problem through a $99 Chromebook campaign.
Computer chips conventionally make use of electric signals to transmit data. However, there are limits to the speed of signals and consequently, this limits the data transmission speeds. IBM now claims that it has developed a new chip which uses light instead of electric signals and ensures higher data transmission speeds.
Valve has been significantly bolstering the sheer amount of content and features it provides through Steam. The company has recently started offering software and dished out a ‘Big Picture’ interface suited well for TV screens. The company believes that by next year, it will be able to ship entire PC packages perfectly suited to living rooms.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Coherent Navigation have developed a hardware platform for GPS attacks and have demonstrated three novel attack techniques that can cripple the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Now that we are well past the iPhone 5 launch, it is that time of the year when the rumors about the next iPhone start anew. Many have speculated that the next iPhone will be called iPhone 5S, following the tradition of iPhone 4S. And now, a forum has posted images of what it claims to be the 5S handset.
Brute force is a popular technique used by researchers and hackers alike to crack passwords. Until now, it was thought that the larger passwords are safe from this technique, given the sheer amount of computing required to brute-force a long password. But that may no longer be the case, as some researchers have now proved.
Fans of the Windows Phone platform have anxiously been waiting for a more affordable Window Phone 8 device to arrive. Apparently, Nokia has been working on one for some time and took many by surprise when it announced a 3.8-inch Nokia Lumia 620 at the LeWeb 2012 event in Paris.
Benchmarks posted online are often a popular source of discerning the upcoming devices. A new Asus tablet has been spotted at GLBenchmarks recently. From the hardware details divulged by the benchmarks, it is a relatively low-end tablet. From the specs experts are speculating it to be cheaper Nexus 7, without the Google branding.