How Two Guys Hacked a Jeep
A few months ago, researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek hacked a car. Yes, hacked a Jeep, to be precise— as a guy (Andy Greenberg) was driving down the interstate at 70 mph. A few minutes later,...
Quantum Dots
The Ultimate Game Changers In an art gallery, the lighting in which a piece of art is shown is incredibly important to the viewer’s experience. Dial up the light provided by a spotlight overhead, and the...
The Feasibility of Self-Driving Cars
There are more than 5 million automobile accidents every year in the United States, resulting in over 40,000 deaths. Worldwide, there are over 1 million deaths. Because over 90% of accidents are caused by...
How to Prevent Yourself from Getting Hacked 101
In the last 18 months alone, hacks of Premera Blue Cross, Anthem, Sony, Home Depot, JPMorgan, and Ebay have resulted in a total of over 400 million records being stolen. These records ranged from email...
The Search Engine Race
A Two Sided Game Plan In 1998, Lawrence “Larry” Page and his colleague at Stanford, Sergey Brin, outlined the then-current status of search engines. Yahoo!, WebCrawler and Search Engine Watch were...
Curiosity: Radiation-Proof Space Computing
Space is known as the inhospitable final frontier; challenges to biological organisms — notably, humans — come to mind. However, an often overlooked issue is the immense challenges posed to electronics in...
Machine Learning
Predicting the Next Major Outbreak When medicine and technology appear together, images of robots performing surgery, new drug designs, and 3D-printing organs are evoked. Not only is technology...
Thync
Starbucks’ Technological Alternative For the majority of Americans who are sleep-deprived on a regular basis, a cup of coffee is not only a prerequisite for braving chilly Monday mornings, but also a...
Wearable Devices
The Beginning of a New Era of Healthcare “Thump! Thump! Thump!” she can hear her heart beat faster as she runs. Her smart watch shows her heart rate increasing over time. After she comes back from her run...
Own it on Blu Ray(TM)
You’ve probably heard these words, often accompanied with “and DVD” on any commercial for the latest movie release. But what exactly is blu ray, and how is different than DVD? They’re both disks,...