| 1. Security experts warn congress that the Internet of Things could kill people |
| By Mike Orcutt, MIT Technology Review |
| Poorly secured webcams and other Internet-connected devices are already being used as tools for cyberattacks. Can the government prevent this from becoming a catastrophic problem? More» |
| Why This Matters: Cue the political hyperbole. Still, this tells a potentially important market story. Let’s say, as these experts warn, manufacturers lack incentives to prioritize security (you know they do!). If the government sets standards, or if this bubbles up as a customer priority, then being competitive with security features will be a value proposition for your business, just like being “IT-friendly” was/is. Reasons to consider adding security to your portfolio. Is security the new black? PS apparently the worry extends to pacemaker sabotage. –Cynthia Wisehart |
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| 2. Samsung and Amazon counter Dolby Vision HDR with HDR10+ |
| By Steve Dent, Engadget |
| Samsung and Amazon have unveiled HDR10+, an improvement of its current HDR10 open standard that brings it more up to par with rival Dolby Vision. More» |
| Why This Matters: The biggest new thing is that HDR10 is moving past fixed metadata. The new HDR10+ uses "dynamic metadata" that's encoded into scenes ahead of time (like Dolby does). That claims adjustment on a scene by scene or even frame by frame basis. –Cynthia Wisehart |
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| 3. Atom-by-atom: Two new magnetic materials created in lab |
| By Michael Franco, New Atlas |
| Even though you've seen refrigerators covered in them, magnets are actually hard to come by. In fact, according to Duke University (DU), only about five percent of all known inorganic compounds exhibit even a little magnetism. So instead of searching the world for new magnets, researchers at the school and at Trinity College in Dublin have recently synthesized two of their own, from a list of 236,115 potential creations. More» |
| Why This Matters: Here’s some conversation prep for your weekend dinner party: How to find a magnetic needle in a haystack of elements and alloys. Right? –Cynthia Wisehart |
