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09/10/2020

Joomla, one of the world’s most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), announced its sponsorship from Google today. Google’s sponsorship of Joomla will enable the Project to continue providing...

08/10/2020

A rich investment banker obliviously meets a moment of reckoning in David Fincher’s intricately plotted thriller.

12/09/2020

Microsoft's next-gen hardware will be the first consoles to support the high-end HDR format, although it's not coming until 2021.

12/09/2020

Bluetooth technology has amassed its fair share of diehard stans over the years, despite some pretty gnarly bugs that open devices up to a bevy of bad actors. Now, the organization behind the namesake technology has put out a statement about the latest threat facing those of us with Bluetooth-enable...

09/07/2020

Fraunhofer HHI, the company behind the H.264 and H.265 video codecs, has just unveiled its latest creation: the aptly-named H.266. Just as the world has

30/06/2020

A particularly nasty form of consumer credit card theft centers on the use of skimming devices embedded in credit card machines at locations such as gas stations and convenience stores. As a customer swipes a card, the hidden device records the name, number and expiration date on the card.

23/06/2020

06/05/2020

Artist, designer and programmer Cyril Diagne recently created a bit of tech that looks more like science fiction that science fact. Using a combination of

14/11/2019

PureCSS Lace by Diana Smith is the latest portrait made from code, rendered in-browser.

19/10/2018

In April of this year, Massive encoded their 1998 album Mezzanine into DNA. The album is now available in spray paint. A limited number of spray cans will contain the DNA encoded audio within matt black paint. Each can will contain approximately one million copies of the album

The encoding process is described below by Dr Robert Grass of TurboBeads:

“This digital bitstream of the album (0s and 1s) was first translated to 901’065 DNA sequences (A, C, T and Gs), each 105 characters long, and closely following our publication (Grass et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.201411378). The 901’065 individual sequences were then chemically synthesised resulting in a synthetic DNA sample, which fully represents the digital bitstream of the album. To enable the mixing of the DNA with the spray can paint and to guarantee information stability, the DNA sequences were encapsulated in synthetic glass fossils (see: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130329-tiny-glass-bottles-protect-dna) and then directly added to the spray can. We ensured that every spray can contains at least 0.1 micrograms of the synthetic DNA, which is equivalent to 1 million copies of the album. This is only possible due to the immense data capacity of DNA (about 100 exabytes per gram)”

Massive Attack’s 3D, also known as a graffiti artist, said:

“It's an interesting way to vandalise your back catalogue, although DNA-encoded spray paint is unlikely to be adopted by street artists seeking anonymity”

07/09/2018

WPA3, Enhanced Open, Easy Connect: The Wi-Fi Alliance's trio of new protocols explained