Terrorism is a fact of life as are the collectives and networks to which counter-terrorism organizations and the media have given various labels and names. These networks are well versed in exploiting modern information technology through social media awareness, marketing and recruitment campaigns. However, there is the more insidious use by terrorists groups of online…
Cutting the Cloud Computing Carbon Cost
Optimizing cloud computing data centers to reduce energy demands and pollution Cloud computing involves displacing data storage and processing from the user’s computer on to remote servers. It can provide users with more storage space and computing power that they can then access from anywhere in the world rather than having to connect to a…
Smartphone-Loss Anxiety Disorder
The smart phone has changed our behavior, sometimes for the better as we are now able to connect and engage with many more people than ever before, sometimes for the worse in that we may have become over-reliant on the connectivity with the outside world that these devices afford us. Either way, there is no…
Kinetic Battery Chargers Get a Boost
New technology to capture the kinetic energy of our everyday movements, such as walking, and to convert it into electrical energy has come a step closer thanks to research to be published in the International Journal Biomechatronics and Biomedical Robotics. Researchers have for many years attempted to harvest energy from our everyday movements to allow…
Data Links Quick Fix
Software that can fix 90 percent of broken links in the web of data, assuming the resources are still on the site’s server, has been developed by researchers in Iran. The details are reported this month in the International Journal Web Engineering and Technology. Everyone knows the frustration of following a link to an interesting…
Hands-Free Dog Walking for the Digital Age
That old “best friend” can get a bit tiresome, all that rolling over, shaking paws, long walks and eating every crumb of food off the floor. But, what if there were a way to command your dog with a remote control, or even via your smart phone…or even without hands? Jeff Miller and David Bevly…