Author: Agitator!!

We’re closer to destruction than ever before… Each year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit group that sets the clock, decides whether the events of the previous year pushed humanity closer to or further from destruction. The clock “conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own…

Matrox and NVIDIA will team on graphics cards for Next-Generation Video Walls. The new series of single-slot graphics cards based on the NVIDIA Quadro embedded GPUs will power up to four synchronized 4K displays per card, while OEMs, system integrators, and AV installers can combine multiple cards to drive up to 16 displays from one…

According to researchers, a new discovery may one day lead to a ‘one-size-fits-all’ cancer treatment. Scientists at Cardiff University say they’ve found a T-cell with a new type of receptor that can recognize and kill most cancers. For more, check out this USA Today story.

New devices medical devices that break down with light have been demonstrated. A variety of medical devices can be inserted into the gastrointestinal tract to treat, diagnose, or monitor GI disorders. Many of these have to be removed by endoscopic surgery once their job is done. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a…

Will your eye the next frontier for small screen tech? Someday when you walk down the street, an augmented user interface will appear like a floating screen above your real-life surroundings. You may discreetly see your heart rate, glucose reading, a weather forecast, real-time translation or map. Or maybe the name and title of the…

Crooks have a new target…retirement accounts. Cybercriminals today are “looking for any possible route into people’s financial transactions, and they are increasingly focusing their efforts outside financial institutions’ firewalls,” said Steven Silberstein, chief executive officer of Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an industry consortium dedicated to reducing cyber-risk in the global financial system….

According to Krebs on Security, be on the lookout for a critical patch for all versions of Windows. According to sources, the vulnerability in question resides in a Windows component known as crypt32.dll, a Windows module that Microsoft says handles “certificate and cryptographic messaging functions in the CryptoAPI.” The Microsoft CryptoAPI provides services that enable…

Following a series of earthquakes, the situation in Puerto Rico remains dire. What is causing them? “Puerto Rico has been hit by what scientists call an earthquake swarm, which is a series of earthquakes rather than the usual pattern of one dominant earthquake followed by aftershocks,” John Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Southern…

Wired has posted a story about how researchers have found a new way to attack some antibiotic bacteria. Khan hopes this discovery can lead to new therapies that will make existing ones more effective. A drug that could disrupt the signaling between LiaX and the cell, for example, won’t kill bacteria. But it will prevent…

IEN takes a look at some of the more intriguing tech. Here’s one Uber and Hyundai are teaming up to build a fleet of flying taxis. Uber, the ride-hailing giant, said its four-passenger “Uber Air Taxi” will initially be piloted, but over time will become autonomous. Uber says it wants to conduct flight demonstrations in…