A top investigator into the electronic theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank is turning his attention to some IT technicians from the bank whom he suspects hooked up its transactions system to the public Internet, giving hackers access. In a series of interviews this month, Mohammad Shah Alam, a Bangladesh police deputy inspector general who is heading investigations in Dhaka, went into some detail about how insiders at Bangladesh Bank may have helped in the execution of one of the world’s biggest cyber-heists last February.
Day: December 29, 2016
Will a wireless HTC Vive 2 headset be unveiled next week?
The HTC Vive is arguably the best VR headset that money – admittedly a lot of it – can buy right now. That doesn’t mean it’s perfect though, and despite only being a few months old, a second-generation model with improved features is already reportedly on the way.
NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter recovering from Protective Status
NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter, which has been in service at Mars since October 2001, put itself into safe mode – a protective standby status – on December 26th, while remaining in communication with Earth. The Odyssey project team has diagnosed the cause – an uncertainty aboard the spacecraft about its orientation with regard to Earth and the sun – and is restoring the orbiter to full operations.
Relations between Obama, Netanyahu camps hit rock bottom
Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about Israeli-Palestinian policy, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, at the State Department in Washington. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about Israeli-Palestinian policy, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, at the State Department in Washington.
The Best Personal Technology of 2016
Traditional broadcast TV services have stagnated over the past couple of years, while over-the-top services such as Amazon Video, Netflix and the BBC’s iPlayer led the way. Sky’s Q dragged broadcast TV kicking and screaming into the 21st century with a modern interface, fast box and service that put time and place shifting at the heart of it.
Pocklington teenager wins prestigious engineering award
A SCHOOL girl from East Yorkshire has been picked out as a future leader in engineering after a prestigious award win. Pocklington School lower sixth student Naomi Allison has been awarded an engineering scholarship by the Arkwright Scholarships Trust at an awards ceremony in London for the UK’s most talented STEM students.
AMD Unveils Radeon Instinct Chips
The new Radeon Instinct GPU-based accelerators unveiled yesterday by chipmaker AMD are aimed at dramatically improving the capabilities of machine intelligence in server computing, the company said. In addition to the new hardware, AMD also announced new software frameworks and a new open source library for GPU-based machine learning implementations.
Climate Change: The Frightening Rise of Dangerous Manmade Global Voguing
A change in temperature is a change in climate. We worry about man-made climate change if a temperature change will last decades or centuries and if the change will disfigure the environment.
Forget the fireworks — look for a comet in the sky on New Year’s Eve
Even if you’re not a fan of New Year’s Eve fireworks, you’ll have another reason to look to the skies. NASA says as we ring in the new year, a comet will near the moon and be visible to those looking west.
Why connecting all the world’s robots will drive 2017’s top technology trends
If you want to make predictions for the future, you need to find the trajectory of events in the past. So to work out what shape digital technology will likely take next year, we should look back to the major developments of 2016.
Invasive parakeets muscle in on native bird’s nests in Israel
There just aren’t enough palm tree homes to go around. Invasive ring-necked parakeets have prompted a rapid decline in Israel’s native hoopoe population, probably because of their aggressive takeover of nesting cavities in palm trees.
Scotland’s papers: Jobs lost to robots and religion in classrooms
A report warns a robot revolution will place millions of British jobs under threat from automation, according to the Herald and the Scotsman which both lead on the story. The Times claims a poll for their paper shows majority of Scots believe that rules should be changed to ensure that children are not made to take part in religious observance at school.
Have a High Speed Secured Browsing With Retail Secure In Ireland
Dec. 29, 2016 – PRLog — United Kingdom – Retail Secure is now offering PCI compliance guest WIFI solutions in Ireland at an affordable cost. Retail Secure is a popular name in the UK for providing the most secured legally complaisant guest WIFI solutions.