CISOs: unsupported, unheard, and invisible
A study conducted among CISOs worldwide from various industries sheds light on their strategies amid a challenging threat environment, identifies obstacles from business functions, and highlights their requirements for achieving success. “Our resea.....»»
Everlight schedules shipments for invisible-light LED devices till end of 2021
LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics has obtained orders for invisible-light LED devices with shipments scheduled until the end of 2021, according to industry sources......»»
The humidity of flowers acts as an invisible attractor for bumblebees
As well as bright colors and subtle scents, flowers possess many invisible ways of attracting their pollinators, and a new study shows that bumblebees may use the humidity of a flower to tell them about the presence of nectar, according to scientists.....»»
Bending light for safer driving; invisibility cloaks to come?
Optical cloaking allows objects to be hidden in plain sight or to become invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside the cloak. While cloaking has been popularized in fiction, like in the "Harry Potter" books, researchers in recent years.....»»
Near-field routing of hyperbolic metamaterials
Near-field light is invisible light at the subwavelength scale. Harnessed for a variety of practical applications, such as wireless power transfer, near-field light has an increasingly significant role in the development of miniature on-chip photonic.....»»
How butterflies make transparent wings: Scientists see the invisible
Many animals have evolved camouflage tactics for self-defense, but some butterflies and moths have taken it even further: They've developed transparent wings, making them almost invisible to predators......»»
Lockdowns have left Stolen Generations survivors isolated, unsupported
Lockdowns have left Stolen Generations survivors isolated, unsupported.....»»
Nintendo Switch app turns the Joy-Con into an infrared tripwire
Spy Alarm, from publisher Sabec, uses the infrared sensor on the right Joy-Con to create an invisible trip wire of sorts. Simply place the controller on a flat surface and point it towards the area you want to guard. If someone or something breaks th.....»»
What mimes interacting with invisible objects says about visual perception
Mimes "make us feel like we’re aware of an object just by seeming to interact with it." When we watch a mime seemingly pull rope, climb steps, or try to escape that infernal box, we don't struggle to recognize the implied objects. Rather.....»»
Two More Windows 10 Updates Will Remove Adobe Flash For Good
Microsoft is preparing to issue two more Windows 10 updates in June and July that will eliminate unsupported Adobe Flash Player from Windows PCs for good. ZDNet reports: The update KB4577586 called "Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player" has been.....»»
A better way to understand drought
Scientists have few categories at their disposal to describe droughts, which are more complex than mere shortages of precipitation or surface water. For example, some local shortages can be invisible, as when water is transferred into a dry area from.....»»
Africa’s first Iron Age culture had a sweet tooth
The results offer some of the oldest physical evidence of honey in people's diets. Enlarge Chemical traces of 3,500-year-old beeswax on central Nigerian potsherds shed light on an often invisible aspect of ancient diets—and a bit about what.....»»
There is no cybersecurity skills gap, but CISOs must think creatively
Many studies claim that millions of jobs are going unfilled because there aren’t enough qualified candidates available for hire. I don’t buy it. Lamont Orange Contributor Share on Twitter.....»»
Aerial photos uncover an invisible fault in Chinese city
Decades-old aerial photos of Yudong District, Datong City in Shanxi Province, Northern China have helped researchers in their search for a fault hidden underneath the city's buildings and cement roads, researchers said at the Seismological Society of.....»»
Illuminating invisible bloody fingerprints with a fluorescent polymer
Careful criminals usually clean a scene, wiping away visible blood and fingerprints. However, prints made with trace amounts of blood, invisible to the naked eye, could remain. Dyes can detect these hidden prints, but the dyes don't work well on cert.....»»
We have the tech to curb drunk driving, but invisible forces are holding it back
Statistically, one person dies from drunk driving every 52 minutes in the U.S. -- but it doesn't have to be that way. We have the technology to stop it......»»
NASA rocket to survey the solar system"s windshield
Eleven billion miles away—more than four times the distance from us to Pluto—lies the boundary of our solar system's magnetic bubble, the heliopause. Here the Sun's magnetic field, stretching through space like an invisible cobweb, fizzles to not.....»»
Sensitive qubit-based technique to accelerate search for dark matter
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Chicago have demonstrated a new technique based on quantum technology that will advance the search for dark matter, the invisible stuff that accounts.....»»
Explore your city’s invisible history with this free AR app
Pokémon GO meets the urban walking tour with OverTime, a new app from Philadelphia-based Monument Lab. The history of a place is as much about what’s there as what came before. But so often, unless it’s memorialized or made obvious.....»»
Lightning strikes will more than double in Arctic as climate warms
In 2019, the National Weather Service in Alaska reported spotting the first-known lightning strikes within 300 miles of the North Pole. Lightning strikes are almost unheard of above the Arctic Circle, but scientists led by researchers at the Universi.....»»
Hidden diversity of coral more important for conservation than previously thought
In recent years, advancements in DNA sequencing have exposed a large amount of hidden diversity in reef-building corals: species that appear identical to one another but are genetically distinct. Typically ignored as they are invisible to the naked e.....»»