Unmanned drones, robots, and missiles could win the next war: DARPA

DARPA
DARPA recently announced a new program that they call a “system of systems” approach, which would bring together manned and unmanned aircraft, missiles, sensors, and mission systems into a very sophisticated network with distributed intelligence.

Intel quietly launches 14nm Braswell, Bay Trail’s successor

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Intel has quietly launched its 14nm successor to Bay Trail. The new SoCs offer improved power consumption and should boost graphics performance significantly over last-gen hardware.

Which SSDs are the most reliable? Massive study sheds some light

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18 months and over two petabytes of written data later, Tech Report’s SSD write endurance experiment is finally over.

Samsung is still lying about the encryption on its Smart TVs

Samsung Smart TV
Last week, Samsung claimed that the voice information captured by its newest TVs was encrypted, even if older models were still insecure. This has now been proven untrue — Samsung televisions still on the market and available for purchase are using plaintext.

IBM, ARM unveil Internet of Things starter kit

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ARM and IBM are teaming up to offer a turnkey Internet of Things solution with built-in Ethernet support and an advanced embedded Cortex-M4 processor. The goal is to have users up and programming within minutes — and tied back to Big Blue’s cloud platform.