Quick notes: MIMO inventor, RAM scraping...
- Professor (Emeritus) Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj, Stanford University, has been awarded the prestigious 2014 Marconi Society Prize. His idea for using multiple antennas (MIMO) at both the transmitting and receiving stations - which is at the heart of the current high speed WiFi and 4G mobile systems – has revolutionized high speed wireless delivery of multimedia services for billions of people.
- Super Capacitors, super possibilities:Professor Raghavendra Pandey's pioneering work
- shAAP is psecular: EC warns Kejriwal on pamphlets appealing for Muslim votes.
- China air pollution reaching the U.S: "We've outsourced our manufacturing and much of our pollution, but some of it is blowing back across the Pacific to haunt us."
- Expect more credit card breaches: In all these attacks, cyber criminals used
memory-parsing software, also known as a "RAM scraper." When a customer
swipes a credit or debit card, the POS terminal grabs the transaction
data from the magnetic stripe and transfers it to the retailer's payment
processing provider. While the data is encrypted during the process,
RAM scrapers extract the information while it is in the computer's live
memory, where it very briefly appears in plain text.
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