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How to convert your VHS tapes to DVD, Blu-ray, or digital

There's no reason to toss old VHS cassettes. You can convert them to DVD, Blu-ray or another digital format......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsDec 17th, 2021

UN biodiversity summit opens with call for "significant" funding

The world's biggest nature protection conference opens in Colombia Monday with the United Nations chief calling for countries to "convert words into action" and fatten a fund seeking to address biodiversity loss......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsOct 21st, 2024

All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication

Modern high-speed internet uses light to quickly and reliably transmit large amounts of data through fiber-optic cables, but currently, light signals hit a bottleneck when data processing is necessary. For that, they must convert into electrical sign.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 19th, 2024

Controlling sound waves with Klein tunneling improves acoustic signal filtration

In the context of sensory modalities, eyes work like tiny antennae, picking up light, electromagnetic waves traveling at blistering speeds. When humans look at the world, their eyes catch these waves and convert them into signals the brain reads as c.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 18th, 2024

Addressing online gender violence requires both culture and policy change

More and more of our lives are being spent on digital platforms. And, as we spend more time online, we are more vulnerable to a wide range of risks. This fact is particularly true for women and girls......»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsOct 18th, 2024

Tech can help kids connect with nature and go outdoors—here are tips to make it work

Young children's lives are increasingly spent indoors. They have less access to green spaces, their parents are concerned about safety, and there's also the draw of digital entertainment. This shift away from the natural world has been evocatively na.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsOct 18th, 2024

Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer helps researchers determine shape of black hole corona

New findings using data from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature of a structure important to black holes called a corona. The findings are published in The Astrophysical Journ.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsOct 17th, 2024

Rare ultra-luminous nova spotted in the Small Magellanic Cloud

A rare, extremely luminous X-ray outburst has been observed in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is a close neighbor of our own Milky Way galaxy. The observations, made by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and other telescopes, were de.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 17th, 2024

Research finds that simplistic and outdated communication tools narrows news focus, restricts user interactivity

Digital media technology has changed journalism considerably, and perhaps most obviously in data journalism. Data journalism uses the power of data analysis and visualization to develop news stories that can be highly engaging and accessible to the p.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 17th, 2024

Book Review: The Big Costs of Mining the Planet for Electric Power

Vince Beiser’s tour of the “Electro-Digital Age” puts resource extraction at the center.....»»

Category: scienceSource:  sciamRelated NewsOct 16th, 2024

Popular VPN boosts its security game and brings your browsing to the cloud

IPVanish Secure Browsing seeks to raise the bar of VPN security, promising to prevent digital threats from reaching your device altogether......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsOct 16th, 2024

Resilience over reliance: Preparing for IT failures in an unpredictable digital world

No IT system — no matter how advanced – is completely immune to failure. The promise of a digital ring of steel may sound attractive, but can it protect you against hardware malfunctions? Software bugs? Unexpected environmental conditions? Cybers.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsOct 16th, 2024

Revealing the hidden universe with full-shell X-ray optics

The study of X-ray emission from astronomical objects reveals secrets about the universe at the largest and smallest spatial scales. Celestial X-rays are produced by black holes consuming nearby stars, emitted by the million-degree gas that traces th.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsOct 15th, 2024

Color complexity in social media posts leads to more engagement, new research shows

If you work in digital marketing, you don't need to be told a picture's worth a thousand words. More than half of content marketers say images are crucial for achieving their social media goals, and a staggering 70% of users prefer image-based posts.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsOct 15th, 2024

Cato DEM helps IT teams overcome network performance problems

Cato Networks expanded the Cato SASE Cloud Platform by introducing Cato Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). This announcement is the third major expansion to the Cato SASE Cloud Platform in 2024, following the additions of extended detection and res.....»»

Category: securitySource:  netsecurityRelated NewsOct 15th, 2024

Astronomers detect very-high-energy gamma-ray emission surrounding distant pulsar

Using the Large High-Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), an international team of astronomers have detected very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays around the pulsar PSR J0248+6021, which may be the pulsar's halo or a pulsar wind nebula. The finding.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 15th, 2024

Light broadens the scope of alkene synthesis

Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a straightforward method to convert common chemicals like carboxylic acids, alcohols, and alkanes directly into valuable alkenes......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 15th, 2024

The NHI management challenge: When employees leave

An employee is exiting your organization. Regardless of the terms of departure, an ex-staffer has the potential when they leave or change roles to impact a wide range of non-human identities, digital credentials, and other secrets. Those secrets incl.....»»

Category: securitySource:  netsecurityRelated NewsOct 15th, 2024

The dark side of API security

APIs are the backbone of digital transformation efforts, connecting applications across organizations, so their security is of the utmost importance. In this Help Net Security video, Lori MacVittie, a Distinguished Engineer at F5, discusses the curre.....»»

Category: securitySource:  netsecurityRelated NewsOct 15th, 2024

Disruption or adaptation: Three questions for the right digitalization strategy

Does every company need to focus on disruption with its digital strategy or should it wait for disruptions from others before reacting and adapting its processes? A new study by Jan Recker, Murat Tarakci and Fabian J. Sting uses simulations to invest.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsOct 14th, 2024

Digital quantum simulation of nuclear magnetic resonance experiments

Programmable quantum computers have the potential to efficiently simulate increasingly complex molecular structures, electronic structures, chemical reactions, and quantum mechanical states in chemistry that classical computers cannot. As the molecul.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 14th, 2024