Green Dragon Tech Newsletter Archive

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Bluetooth 5 Spec to Be Announced In an email sent by the Bluetooth SIG Executive Director, the Bluetooth 5 spec has been planned to be announced on June 16, and promises to improve in many aspects over existing Bluetooth technologies. Not much is known about what will...

Possible 32 Million Twitter Accounts Now Vulnerable Before we go into any detail, we would just like you to know that now would be a good time to change your twitter password, if you have one. News of this “hack” seems to have come from a strange website called...

Google Reveals Their Secret To High-Performance Machine Learning Google has made quite a few advancements in the field of machine learning, with one of it’s more recent endeavors being capable of beating a professional human player at Go, a game notorious for being...

New FCC Rules Inadvertently Cause Router Firmware Lock Down, Except for Linksys WRTsMany modern wireless routers can operate at 5GHz frequency, thesame frequency as some weather radar systems. This can causeinterference for those systems, meaning that...

Driverless Cars It seems that more companies are beginning to take cues from Google and their “driverless cars.” Baidu (a.k.a. “the Google of China”), for example, has announced that they want to deploy autonomous vehicles by around the year 2020 (roughly the same...

Nest Discontinues Revolv Hubs: a Sign of What the IoT Really Means for Consumers The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is one of the latest buzzwords being pushed by companies like Nest. To be fair, on the surface it seems like it could have interesting potential. The idea...

Dozens of Internet Companies Come out in Support of the Terrifying TPP Agreement as it Nears Ratification The Internet Association is an organization that “represents America’s leading Internet companies and their global community of users,” and is...

Broadband Competition Worse than Ever Efforts such as Google Fiber have given people hope that the monopolies of US Broadband might have finally been coming to an end. Unfortunately, however, it seems that things have only continued to get worse. Fixed-line broadband...

Apple Refusing to Compromise iPhone’s Security, Even for the FBI Apple has now been in a month-long battle with the FBI over refusing to build a backdoor into the iPhone, and things are only getting more heated. The conflict actually originated back in December of...

Standardized, External GPUs for Laptops May Be Coming AMD's Robert Hallock recently made a statement about a possible market for thin laptops that, when hooked up to an external GPU, would still manage to perform reasonably well for gaming. Of course, a proper,...

Variable Stiffness Metal Could Lead to More Human-like Robots HRL Laboratories has come up with and demonstrated a certain way to arrange strips of metal in a such a way that adjusting the amount of pressure put on the strips will directly adjust the stiffness of the...

3D Printed Human Organs 3D printing has already been predicted to have huge potential, with new uses for it being discovered seemingly every day. Singapore just recently said that they were planning to print public housing, and now it seems that 3D printing organs (or...

  Fake Downloads If you've ever seen a fake download button on a website, you probably understand how frustrating they can become. If you're unfamiliar, these are advertisements put out onto sites like CNET or Sourceforge that purposefully mimic actual download...

    Brave You may have heard a while ago that Brendan Eich, a co-founder of Mozilla (a company best known for its web browser, Firefox), had stepped down as the company's CEO. Funnily enough, it turns out that he later began working on a browser of his own,...