Race for Self-Driving Cars Needs to Slow Down
Every day there’s more exciting news about self-driving automobiles. Unfortunately, much of it is bad.
Metal Whiskers of Doom
Cosmic rays are not the only hazards that constantly threaten integrated circuits and chips. There are weird effects of pure metals “growing” or “dying” straight out of an alchemist’s manual that are equally dangerous. And like the danger...
Data Dangers from Outer Space
Cosmic rays – the very name sounds like a futuristic beam weapon from a new sci-fi movie. But cosmic rays are quite real: powerful atomic particles hurled at near the speed of light by titanic explosions across the depths of intergalactic space. A hail of them, blown...
Free Books!
Book-lovers, silent movie aficionados, lovers of the Jazz Age, rejoice! The summer is coming to an end, along with those long, lazy hours, so perfect for indulging in light vacation reading, or chilling in a dark room watching the silver screen. But pull your head up...
Prime Time in July
The dog days of summer, as they once were called, not only historically came with a lack of serious news, but a slump in the retail market, too. People were assumed to be on summer vacation down at the beach or up in the mountains or off in some distant town. They...
How a $30 LED is Saving Us a Ton of Time
Sometimes a real-world object is the answer to a virtual-world problem. We manage data backups for one of our clients. If you have ever done that job for even a small network, you know it can be a challenge. The ideal situation is for it to quietly copy all the...