If you pay attention to security, you’re probably aware that random USB drives can be host to a variety of malware — or alternately designed to destroy your PC if plugged in. Now, a security researcher has demonstrated that even USB cables can be booby-trapped with security exploits, provided that the attacker is relatively close by. As detailed on his and , security researcher Mike Grover built himself a USB cable with an embedded Wi-Fi controller and the ability to execute payloads remotely on the target device via a nearby phone. The O.M.G. (Offensive MG) cable can theoretically reflash the system firmware, initiate deauthentication attacks on 802.11, and update payloads on the target system.
Greenland’s ice sheet is the second largest body of ice in the world, so scientists are naturally interested in how it’s changing with the climate and what’s under there. Recent studies of the ice sheet with radar revealed something unexpected: an impact crater. What’s more unexpected than an impact crater? A second impact crater. NASA says it just just over a hundred miles from the first one, and the team believes they formed at different times. In November of 2018, NASA announced the discovery of an impact crater under the Hiawatha glacier. This discovery came thanks to NASA’s Operation IceBridge, a project employing a fleet of aircraft to conduct radar scans of glaciers.
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When New Horizons beamed back its first images of Ultima Thule, the Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) and most distant object ever explored by humans, scientists and the press excitedly noted that it appeared to be an ancient contact binary composed of two spherical shapes compressed at their point of mutual contact. It looked, to many eyes, like a two-lobed snowman. But this image (shown above) isn’t as complete a picture of the shape as we thought it was. It’s the best photo of Ultima Thule available, but it appears to have captured the contact binary face-on, rather than from the edge.
Google forever changed the way we got around when it launched turn-by-turn navigation in Android 2.0 Eclair. That feature was in “beta” for years despite being available on almost every smartphone on the planet. Google’s latest beta navigation feature is starting out with a much smaller group of testers. augmented reality navigation is , the Wall Street Journal reports, and you may have it before you know it. GPS is a fundamentally amazing technology — satellites thousands of miles above our heads are beaming location coordinates to our phones. GPS locations can still be off by a few meters, but that doesn’t matter much for a car that you are driving.
We’ve been covering rumors of a new Turing-class GPU coming from Nvidia (minus Turing’s principle features) for the past few months, but the leak of packaging and other details confirms that these cards are imminent. Whether they’ll represent a significant shift in value proposition from GPUs already in-market, however, is its own question. WCCFTech has card shots from several vendors, as has VideoCardz. The information on the GTX 1660 Ti is firmer than the data for the GTX 1600; we have multiple leaks that show specs on the 1660 Ti, including base clock, boost clock, and memory capacities. Unfortunately, those leaks don’t always agree.
We haven’t heard much lately from , the company that promised to send people to colonize Mars as part of a reality TV show. It’s looking like we won’t hear from it again, either. An eagle-eyed space enthusiast has from a Swiss court confirming Mars One is no more. Mars One started making waves in the early 2010s with its plan to ship a few dozen humans off to Mars on a one-way trip. Mars One founder Bas Lansdorp envisioned a funding scheme based entirely on licensing and TV programs. To make that happen, Lansdorp set Mars One up as two entities: the non-profit Mars One Foundation and the Swiss-based Mars One Ventures for-profit.
The ongoing trade war between the United States and China could heat up next week if President Trump signs an executive order banning telecommunications equipment manufactured by ZTE or Huawei from being deployed in US wireless networks. While such an order has been rumored before, Politico that there’s a push to make it happen before Mobile World Congress, which runs at the end of February. The goal is to send a message to firms looking to do business with the US government that they need to prioritize cybersecurity concerns. “Contracts are going out now,” a senior official told Politico.
Except for the innovation of the microwave, oven technology hasn’t changed much for decades. Sure, there has been a recent spate of smart ovens that nibble around the edges in an attempt to one-up conventional versions, but they basically cook the same way as ever. The Brava is different. Building on a technology first used in industry, the Brava oven ($995) cooks using an array of light sources (sort of really bright light bulbs that the company calls Pure Light) instead of more traditional radiant heating coils or gas flames. The is a beefy (around 50 pounds) countertop oven that can be plugged into a standard 110-120v circuit.
