News Briefs

Volume

47

Issue

9

fYear

2014

fDate

Sept. 2014

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

21

Abstract

Topics include Russian hackers stealing more than 1 billion usernames and passwords, researchers developing a new type of brain-inspired chip, a US judge rejecting a Silicon Valley corporate-collusion settlement, proponents saying that their new networking approach could replace TCP/IP, researchers setting a speed record for data transmission over copper wiring, a "digital tattoo" that unlocks smartphones, a group proposing a new smart-home wireless technology, cloud computing making life difficult for forensics investigators, smart robotic furniture that can assemble and reassemble itself, and a sensor system that will track players\´ performance during this year\´s US professional football season.

Keywords

ARM; Aalborg University; Adobe Systems; Alcatel-Lucent; AllSeen Alliance; Apple; Bell Labs; Bluetooth; Cloud Computing Forensic Science Working Group; Code On; Cornell University; DARPA; Freescale Semiconductor; G.fast; Google; Google´s Nest; Hold Security; IBM; Intel; Internet communications; Judge Lucy Koh; MIT; Moto X; Motorola; NFC; NIST; National Football League; Next Gen Stats; RFID; RLNC; Random Linear Network Coding; Roombot; Samsung; Steinwurf; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne; SyNapse; Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics; TCP/IP; Thread Group; TrueNorth; US District court; US National Institute of Standards and Technology; US football; VivaLnk; Wi-Fi; XG-FAST; Yale Security; Zebra Technologies; chip; cloud computing; collusion; copper wiring; digital tattoo; eSkin; energy efficient; forensics investigators; lawsuit; near-field communications; neurons; processor; robotics; security; sensors; smart furniture; smart home; the California Institute of Technology; wage fixing; wireless;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2014.258

Filename

6898725