1. News
Abstract:
Topics include hackers attacking the Internet naming authority, a new
Bluetooth version offering online connectivity and showing promise for the
Internet of Things, companies looking for ways to enable mobile apps to
communicate with one another, the US planning the world's most powerful
supercomputer, a set of prosthetic arms that users can control with their
thoughts, hackers hitting a German steel factory and a South Korean
nuclear power plant, NASA using apes as the model for a disaster-response
robot, Sony inventing a system that converts regular glasses into smart
spectacles, researchers finding a critical flaw in an important cloud
technology, a new approach letting cellular towers function like
inexpensive radar, and a program teaching California prisoners to
program.