Magic Leap adds virtual reality head-tracking and possibly hand-tracking

A second demonstration of mega-venture Magic Leap’s virtual reality technology indicates that head-tracking has been added and possibly hand-tracking.Head-tracking, which wasn’t shown in the only other demonstration that happened over a year ago, lets a person move around a hologram to see it from different sides. Hand-tracking, which is a mouse-like metaphor interface that lets people interact with virtual objects using hand movements, also seems to have been added. The report also hints at the principals behind how Magic Leap’s virtual reality works. Wired reported on Kevin Kelly’s visit to Magic Leap in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to experience the second public demonstration of the company’s version of virtual reality that it calls mixed reality (MR). A comparison of the Wired story with one written by Rachel Metz over a year ago for the MIT Technology Review measures Magic Leap’s progress.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Software-Defined Networks .. A Primer

SDN, Software-Defined Networking, the trending technology that some friends/colleagues of mine like to refer to it as “Still Does Nothing”. Let’s see if it does some thing. SDN has been a market hype for few years now.  Out of laziness, I ignored it in the beginning then I had to catch up a bit later …

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AT&T Is Giving the P4 Language a Whirl

A mere 78 lines of code that even a manager can understand.

IDG Contributor Network: Bugs for cash: Bounty hunters in the new wild west of security

The business of bug hunting is a potentially lucrative one for both seasoned security researchers and amateurs with an interest in hacking. It’s an area that’s gaining legitimacy thanks to official bug bounty programs and hacking contests, but there’s still a seedy underbelly that unscrupulous bounty hunters can take advantage of if they successfully identify a vulnerability.The average cost of a data breach is $3.8 million, according to research by the Ponemon Institute. It’s not hard to understand why so many companies are now stumping up bounties. It can also be very difficult, time consuming and expensive to root out bugs and flaws internally. Turning to the wider security community for help makes a lot of sense, and where there’s need there’s a market.  To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Bugs for cash: Bounty hunters in the new wild west of security

The business of bug hunting is a potentially lucrative one for both seasoned security researchers and amateurs with an interest in hacking. It’s an area that’s gaining legitimacy thanks to official bug bounty programs and hacking contests, but there’s still a seedy underbelly that unscrupulous bounty hunters can take advantage of if they successfully identify a vulnerability.The average cost of a data breach is $3.8 million, according to research by the Ponemon Institute. It’s not hard to understand why so many companies are now stumping up bounties. It can also be very difficult, time consuming and expensive to root out bugs and flaws internally. Turning to the wider security community for help makes a lot of sense, and where there’s need there’s a market.  To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: Rolling the root

…no cryptographic secret can be regarded as “absolute”. It’s all relative and the use of a key has some element of associated risk that the key is not a strict secret. If that’s the case, and if we cannot really understand the exact levels of risk associated with the use of a key, then why should we place our trust in any form of public key cryptography?

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Wi-Fi offloading breakthrough nets Korean researchers second major IEEE networking award

This year's IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize, known as the most honored award for papers in the networking communications field, goes to a Korean team for its breakthrough research on offloading data traffic from cellular networks to Wi-Fi.The award recognizes the work of Professor Kyunghan Lee  from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST); Prof. Yi Yung, Prof. Chong Song, and Dr. Joohyun Lee of Electrical and Computer Engineering at KAIST; and Executive Vice President Injong Rhee of Samsung Electronics, Mobile Division.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Wi-Fi offloading breakthrough nets Korean researchers second major IEEE networking award

This year's IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize, known as the most honored award for papers in the networking communications field, goes to a Korean team for its breakthrough research on offloading data traffic from cellular networks to Wi-Fi.The award recognizes the work of Professor Kyunghan Lee  from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST); Prof. Yi Yung, Prof. Chong Song, and Dr. Joohyun Lee of Electrical and Computer Engineering at KAIST; and Executive Vice President Injong Rhee of Samsung Electronics, Mobile Division.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

First Wave of Pascal GPUs Coming to European Supercomputer

There are few international supercomputing hubs sporting the systems and software prowess of the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS), which started with large-scale vector machines in 1992 and moved through a series of other architectures and vendors; from NEC at the beginning, to IBM, and most recently, Cray. In fact, the center has had an ongoing preference for Cray supercomputers, with an unbroken stretch of machines beginning in 2007.

In addition to choosing Cray as the system vendor, CSCS has been an early adopter and long-term user of GPU acceleration. According to the center’s director, Thomas Schulthess, teams there firmed …

First Wave of Pascal GPUs Coming to European Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

JP Morgan: “Monumental” shift of enterprise workloads to the cloud

A new report from JP Morgan quantifies just how significant the enterprise shift to the cloud has become.The Wall Street giant queried 207 CIOs who have budgets of more than $600 million to find that 16.2% of the workloads under management by the CIOs run in the public cloud and within five years, 41.3% are expected to.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: IDC: The cloud is eating legacy systems +We don’t normally put too much stock in surveys, but this one caught our eye because of who administered and took the survey.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Save 40% on the TP-LINK Wi-Fi Smart Plug – Deal Alert

The TP-LINK HS100 smart plug is quite simply a power outlet that you can control from anywhere. Using your smartphone, you can turn devices on & off, set programs to turn them on & off at set times while you're away, or engage a "countdown timer" which powers the switch off after a set amount of time. Installation is simple -- just plug a device into your smart plug and connect to your wifi network. The HS100 is also compatible with Echo, for voice control. Buy multiple plugs and get creative.The TP-LINK HS100 wifi smart plug averages 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon from 250 reviewers (read reviews). With a list price of $49.99, this 40% discount puts the HS100 at just $29.95. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Intel’s tablet adventure looking more like its netbook disaster

Intel's rise and fall in tablets are starting to resemble the company's misadventures in netbooks less than a decade ago.The company is quickly distancing itself from basic tablets, a market it prized as little as two years ago, to go after detachable devices, hybrids, and high-end tablets that can double as PCs.Intel could also ax some Atom tablet chip lines that brought the company success two years ago. Intel this week laid off 12,000 people as part of a restructuring plan that could also include cuts in some product lines.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

4 ways to apply SLAs to shadow IT

The risks and costs of shadow IT have been always been a concern for IT organizations. Yet the business clearly values the capability to procure certain IT services to rapidly meet its changing business needs — so much so that these informal IT capabilities are springing up even more often than IT leaders realize. One 2015 report by Cisco indicated that the number of unauthorized cloud applications being used in the enterprise, for example, was 15 to 10 times higher than CIOs estimated.[ Related: CIOs vastly underestimate extent of shadow IT ]To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

4 ways to apply SLAs to shadow IT

The risks and costs of shadow IT have been always been a concern for IT organizations. Yet the business clearly values the capability to procure certain IT services to rapidly meet its changing business needs — so much so that these informal IT capabilities are springing up even more often than IT leaders realize. One 2015 report by Cisco indicated that the number of unauthorized cloud applications being used in the enterprise, for example, was 15 to 10 times higher than CIOs estimated.[ Related: CIOs vastly underestimate extent of shadow IT ]To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

68% off Amir 3 in 1 Cell Phone Camera Lens Kit – Deal Alert

With this lens kit from Amir you can take high clarity, professional photos wish fisheye, macro and super wide angle format from virtually any cell phone. These professional HD lenses reduce glass flare & ghosting caused by reflections. A universal clip design makes it easy to attach to most cell phones, iPads and PC's as well.  The fisheye lens capture images at 180-degrees, wide angle lens at 140-degrees and the macro lens magnifies 10x with a minimum object distance of 10-15mm. The lens kit receives an average of 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon (read reviews). Regular price is listed at $39.99 on Amazon, but with the current 68% discount you can gift this kit to yourself or an aspiring photographer for just $12.88.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Treasury Department took over 8 weeks to fully patch Juniper security vulnerability

The secret backdoor in Juniper firewalls which automatically decrypted VPN traffic has been compared to “stealing a master key to get into any government building.” The security hole, which existed for at least three years, was publicly announced in December. The whodunit for installing the backdoor is still unknown, but some people believe it was repackaged from a tool originally created by the NSA.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Treasury Department took over 8 weeks to fully patch Juniper security vulnerability

The secret backdoor in Juniper firewalls which automatically decrypted VPN traffic has been compared to “stealing a master key to get into any government building.” The security hole, which existed for at least three years, was publicly announced in December. The whodunit for installing the backdoor is still unknown, but some people believe it was repackaged from a tool originally created by the NSA.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Chrome turns 50 and stands at a crossroads

Google’s Chrome browser has just reached a major milestone, hitting its 50th release.For Google, it’s a moment for positive reflection. To emphasize Chrome’s might, the company points to the browser’s 771 billion page loads per month, 1 billion monthly active mobile users, 9.1 billion auto-filled forms, and 145 million malicious webpages averted. One might also point to Chrome’s ever-growing usage, accounting for 47 percent of all worldwide pageviews, including mobile, according to StatCounter.Indeed, Chrome has become an indispensable tool for many web users, and has served as a leader in the browser world. It introduced the idea of limiting menu clutter around actual webpages, and popularized the syncing of bookmarks, tabs, and browser history across devices. After all these years, it remains PCWorld’s most highly-recommended web browser.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Sleep and other patterns pinpoint individuals in datasets, study finds

A human’s “real-world movements” are so unique that people can be distinguished by their patterns, a new study conducted by Columbia University and Google finds. And that’s even if the datasets are anonymized.Sleep cycles captured by fitness IoT products, commuting schedules stored by bots, the days of the week that one goes to work and other habits could all one day be used to discern one person from another, the study says.What’s more, the computer scientists say all you need is one dataset to obtain results, for example, a few bank card transactions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here