Abstract :
Topics include hackers attacking the Internet naming authority, a new Bluetooth version offering online connectivity and showing promise for the Internet of Things, companies looking for ways to enable mobile apps to communicate with one another, the US planning the world´s most powerful supercomputer, a set of prosthetic arms that users can control with their thoughts, hackers hitting a German steel factory and a South Korean nuclear power plant, NASA using apes as the model for a disaster-response robot, Sony inventing a system that converts regular glasses into smart spectacles, researchers finding a critical flaw in an important cloud technology, a new approach letting cellular towers function like inexpensive radar, and a program teaching California prisoners to program.
Keywords :
Bluetooth; Companies; Computer hacking; Electronic mail; Internet; Robots; 6LoWPAN; APL; App Index; Applied Physics Laboratory; Bluetooth; Bluetooth 4.2; Bluetooth Smart sensors; CZDS; California Institute of Technology; California Prison Industry Authority; Caltech; Code.7370; DARPA Robotics Challenge; DoE; Docker; Facebook; Famous Industries; Fraunhofer Institute for Communication; Google; Google Glass; ICANN; IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks; Information Processing; Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; Internet of Things; IoT; JPL; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Johns Hopkins University; Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Les Baugh; Lidar; Modular Prosthetic Limbs; NASA; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; PCL; Red Hat Product Security team; Revolutionizing Prosthetics program; RoboSimian; San Quentin State Prison; Sierra; Single-Lens Display Module; Smart EyeGlass; Sony; Summit; Taunis Tiigi; The Last Mile; Twitter; Twitter Cards; US Department of Energy; University of California at Santa Barbara; and Ergonomics; cellular towers; centralized zone data system; cloud computing; cyberattack; deep linking; exascale computing; flaw; mobile apps; passive coherent location; programming classes; radar; security; smart glasses; spearfishing; supercomputer; universal Web addresses; wearable technology; wireless;
