Articles by Sarah Katz
Tech Xplore / Google could develop locator for Android devices
With Apple locator devices such as AirTag and Find My iPhone, Google is now looking to follow in Apple's footsteps with its new accessibility measure for the Find My Device feature commonly used to locate Android devices. ...
Tech Xplore / Microsoft to release new apps view for hybrid work
As the COVID-19 pandemic draws to a close, Microsoft intends to follow through on its plan for an easier layout to connect remote users to participants in office attending the same meetings. This new layout, called Front ...
Tech Xplore / Facebook AI can now use just one word to mimic text style from images
Facebook has announced their new AI project TextStyleBrush, a software capable of copying the style of handwritten or printed text in an image using only one word. Users can utilize this model to alter and replace text in ...
Tech Xplore / Nvidia to stop support for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and Kepler GPUs soon
Nvidia, founding company of the GPU, has announced that on August 31 of 2021, support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, as well as for all Kepler GPUs, will be dropped. The majority of these GPUs used to sell as part of the 600 and ...
Tech Xplore / Amazon develops new technologies to enhance employee safety
Teams at the Amazon Robotics and Advanced Technology labs in both Seattle, Washington, and northern Italy have begun diligently testing out new technology they hope will improve safety for employees by carrying out tasks ...
Tech Xplore / Startup Kelekona develops a 40-seat drone bus
Inspired by the packed to the brim trains from New Jersey to New York, Braeden Kelekona came up with the idea for a 40-seat drone bus. This concept would aim to keep passenger numbers reasonable in order to accommodate desired ...
Tech Xplore / Facebook to launch NetHack Challenge at NeurIPS 2021
Historically, significant progress in the area of reinforcement learning (RL) has resulted from simulation environments in games such as Dota 2, Minecraft and StarCraft II. Unfortunately, these developments came with a taxing ...
Tech Xplore / Largest password data breach in history has been leaked online
Back in 2009, threat actors hacked into the website servers of social app RockYou, accessing over 32 million user passwords stored in plaintext. Now, in what appears to be the largest data breach in history, attackers have ...
Tech Xplore / Samsung researchers announce the feasibility of commercial 'stretchable' devices
With the established success of flexible computer screen displays, many users are wondering how display technology will advance next. So far, free-form displays have grown popular as a next-generation product that offers ...
Tech Xplore / Nanoleaf develops classy lighting with a wood-like finish for your home
Already out for a while now, Nanoleaf Shapes have served as smart light panels for customers looking to spice up the style of any room in a home or other building space. However, when these light panels switch off, they assume ...
Tech Xplore / Google's Quic transmission protocol speeds up the Internet's flagship TCP
On the horizon for eight years now, Google's planned replacement for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Quic, seems to be finally underway. In fact, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published Quic as a standard ...
Tech Xplore / AMD and Samsung are developing a new Exynos mobile chip with ray tracing
Computex Taipei announced on June 2, 2021 that the graphics and processors company AMD has collaborated with Samsung to develop RDNA 2 graphics technology for an Exynos mobile system-on-chip, with the goal of enhanced Graphics ...
Tech Xplore / Google announces Half-Double, a new technique used in the Rowhammer DRAM security exploit
Google has just revealed the discovery of a new technique used by attackers to take advantage of the Rowhammer security exploit present in Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM). This new strategy involves capitalizing on the ...
Tech Xplore / Sony launches motion-sensing music effects controller, Motion Sonic
A long time in the making, Sony has just announced the upcoming release of Motion Sonic, a new technology that allows music lovers to track their own movements as they play music. Whether you are strumming a guitar or waving ...
Tech Xplore / Despite fix, Apple has yet to address WebKit security bug affecting iPhone and MacOS
While a fix emerged three weeks ago for the security bug affecting the WebKit browser engine used by Apple products such as iPhone and Mac, Apple has yet to implement the fix. Researchers at the security firm Theori have ...