On Race-Sam Harris & Neil deGrasse Tyson
Harris and Tyson discuss race on the waking up podcast.
Monthly Archive: January 2018
Sam Harris in conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sam Harris Tries To Debunk Neil deGrasse Tyson On Religion.
Nobel Minds 2017-(Quest saturday special)
The 2017 Nobel Laureates met at the Grünewald Hall in the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm for the traditional round-table discussion and TV program ‘Nobel Minds’. The discussion was hosted by the BBC’s Zeinab Badawi.
Understanding Empathy-Simon Sinek (Quest republic day special)
Trust and cooperation are not standard in our organizations and yet we know they should be. There are two attributes that every single leader has the opportunity to possess that will help them create the types of organizations we would be proud to call our own. Those two...
Straight from horse’s mouth-Spectre and Meltdown: Data leaks during speculative execution | J. Horn (Google Project Zero)
Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities in modern computers leak passwords and sensitive data.
How a 22-Year-Old Discovered the Worst Chip Flaws in History
In 2013, a teenager named Jann Horn attended a reception in Berlin hosted by Chancellor Angela Merkel. He and 64 other young Germans had done well in a government-run competition designed to encourage students to pursue scientific research. In Horn’s case, it worked. Last summer, as a...
Meltdown and Spectre-Vulnerabilities in modern computers leak passwords and sensitive data
Meltdown and Spectre work on personal computers, mobile devices, and in the cloud. Depending on the cloud provider’s infrastructure, it might be possible to steal data from other customers. Meltdown Meltdown breaks the most fundamental isolation between user applications and the operating system. This attack allows a program...
The technology behind Bitcoin-Cryptocurrency
When Bitcoin was unleashed on the world, it filled a specific need. But it wasn’t long before people realized the technology behind Bitcoin—the blockchain—could do much more than record monetary transactions. That realization has lately blossomed into a dazzling and often bewildering array of startup companies, initiatives, corporate alliances,...
IEEE Spectrum’s Most Popular Stories of 2017
In 2017, IEEE Spectrum published more than 1,000 feature and news stories about technology. Here, we resurface our most popular posts of the year. If you missed them the first time around, we hope you’ll enjoy this chance to look back and discover new stories or revisit a favorite. 1. In...
