Tuesday, March 13, 2012

IBM unveils one trillion bit-per-second optical chip

IBM unveils one trillion bit-per-second optical chip: "Last Thursday at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles, a team from IBM presented research on their wonderfully-named "Holey Optochip." The prototype chipset is the first parallel optical transceiver that is able to transfer one trillion bits (or one terabit) of information per second."

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

How To Secure Your Wi-Fi Network Against Intrusion - How-To Geek

How To Secure Your Wi-Fi Network Against Intrusion - How-To Geek: "Insecure Wi-Fi is the easiest way for people to access your home network, leech your internet, and cause you serious headaches with more malicious behavior. Read on as we show you how to secure your home Wi-Fi network."

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The Top 10 Tips for Securing Your Data - How-To Geek

The Top 10 Tips for Securing Your Data - How-To Geek: "With the use of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and netbooks, most of us do everyday tasks online, such as purchasing goods and banking. However, if we don’t secure our personal data on our computers and online, we could be asking for serious trouble."

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How-To: Diodes

How-To: Diodes: "If you have embarked upon electronics projects in the past, there is a good chance you have already encountered this common component and soldered into your circuit without second thought. Diodes are valuable in electronics and serve a variety of purposes, which will be highlighted in upcoming steps."

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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Raspberry Pi $35 mini-computer suffers more setback and delays due to a production mistake - Yahoo! News

Raspberry Pi $35 mini-computer suffers more setback and delays due to a production mistake - Yahoo! News: After selling at a rate of approximately 700 products per second, causing retailers’ sites to crash, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced yet another setback that will delay the shipments of the budget mini-Linux computers

The Most Trusted Name in News Just Stole Your Computer - Truthdig

The Most Trusted Name in News Just Stole Your Computer - Truthdig: Visitors to CNN’s Web site looking to watch streaming video of the inauguration on Jan. 20 got this message: “For faster, better video, click ‘yes’ here.” Doing so installed a peer-to-peer plug-in that transferred the bandwidth responsibility of streaming the video from CNN to the users, taking over visitors’ computers and potentially saving CNN a boatload of cash in the process.