A new network security issue is causing headaches for the victims of DDoS attacks. According to security firm Netscout, several DDoS services have found a way to use Plex Media Servers to amplify the junk traffic they fire off toward targets during attacks. The researchers claim that a Plex …

  Google is rolling out a new set of health monitoring features to Pixel phones, and they could come to more Android devices soon. That’s because Google’s new respiration and heart rate scanning tech is not based on a specialized sensor — it relies on your smartphone’s existing cameras. Like …

Polyphenols, a group of natural compounds found in grapes as well as other fruits and vegetables, are key compounds responsible for ultraviolet (UV)-photoprotection, according to new research. Grapes may help protect against damage to the skin caused by solar UV radiation. Image credit: Bru-nO. “Major grape polyphenols include the flavanols …

The 120,000-year-old animal bone fragment with six incised lines is one of the oldest representations of abstract patterns produced by Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age hominins and the oldest known so far in the Levant. The 120,000-year-old engraved bone with six deliberately produced incisions from the Nesher Ramla site, …

  Huawei only got to enjoy a few months at the top of the smartphone heap before the US government knocked it down a peg. Following the Commerce Department’s actions against the Chinese megafirm, Huawei has been unable to use Google services on its new phones. The company’s solution was …

  Ever since Apple launched the M1 it’s been clear that the CPU was going to be trouble for Intel and AMD. Apple has now published its own power consumption figures for the M1-based Mac Mini as compared with the 2018 Intel Mac mini refresh, and the Intel systems don’t …

  Nvidia’s Ampere arrived to much fanfare last fall before mostly vanishing from store shelves. In the aftermath of the launch, bot-users and resellers bragged about buying as many as 50 cards at a time. This kind of taunting struck a nerve with a lot of people. We know that …

  Yesterday, we covered news from Mercury Research showing that Intel had regained market share from AMD in both desktop and mobile. The news, however, wasn’t all bad for AMD. According to Dean McCarron, president of Mercury Research, AMD shipped nearly a million Ryzen 5000 CPUs in Q4 of 2020. …

  IBM has been scaling up its own quantum computing efforts over the past few years, and the company is now claiming it’ll deliver a 100x improvement in certain workloads. The company isn’t going to deliver this improvement solely through hardware, but through the deployment of new software tools, algorithms, …

  Rumors of an Apple-designed AR/VR product have rumbled around for years now, with nary a launch to show for it. New data, however, shed more information on the hardware than we’ve seen before. Apple is developing a mixed-reality system that can track hand movements and show video of the …