With Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and holiday gift giving coming up quickly, McAfee published this infographic to share information about common scams around this time of year. If more people are aware of them, hopefully that will help avoid them. Some of them, unfortunately, stick with us throughout the year. You’ve Got Mail! — As holiday sales continue to migrate online, … [Read more...]
NVIDIA explains NVLink it will use in upcoming supercomputers
NVIDIA announced last week that with IBM they will be building two supercomputers for the US Department of Energy. The supercomputers will be installed in 2017 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The supercomputers will use NVIDIA's Tesla GPU accelerators and using NVIDIA NVLink GPU interconnect technology. NVLink allows the … [Read more...]
Sorting algorithms animated
A post from last year visualized sorting algorithms with sounds and visuals in a YouTube video. This animated gif similarly shows different sorting algorithms visually and comparatively in a matrix. The rows provide different initial data to test the efficiency of the sorting algorithms, with Insertion, Selection, Bubble, Shell, Merge, Heap, Quick, and Quick3 in the different … [Read more...]
The US needs more information security professionals
Looking for a change of career? This infographic shares some interesting statistics relevant to cyber security professionals. While some of the largest cyber crime incidents have happened in recent years, "the demand for cyber security professionals has grown 3.5 times faster than the demand for other Information Technology professionals in the past five years". (Click image … [Read more...]
GE’s The Boy Who Beeps
This video from GE aired before a movie I watched yesterday. It's 2 minutes long and covers quite a tale that I felt like I didn't need to watch a movie afterwards. Several people were hoping it was a movie trailer with a longer version coming out soon. The Boy Who Beeps shows a boy who grows up with the ability to talk to machines. Many of us might feel similarly able to talk … [Read more...]