Cyber-security has become a more comprehensive effort than ever before. When attacks are not simple hacks and direct breaches, security experts must focus their labors on the less-considered paths of attack. 2019 will see the challenges increase and evolve as companies must constantly contend with millions of possible attack vectors. However, as new attacks emerge, so do the mechanisms to defend against them.
"... the most important and economically significant aspects of the surveillance model in business is that Google and Facebook users are not the customers. The real customers are the advertisers..."
A SpaceX Dragon capsule may have deposited up to 21 times the allowed amount of contamination on one sensor on the ISS. Another, 32 times. Yet another, more than 70 times.
The Roman philosopher Seneca wasn’t talking about the stock market when he wrote that “Time discovers truth,” but he could have been. In the long run a stock price will reflect a company’s (true) intrinsic value. In the short run the pricing is basically random. Here are two real-life examples.
"Apple’s iconic hardware unit growth is broadly over for now... a concentrated portfolio of highly desirable (and pricy) products is now facing the reality of market saturation..."
"We are witnessing more disruption in human history over next 10-20 years than what we have seen in the last 20,000 years. Their prediction is that 60% of Fortune 1000 companies will be out of business in just next 10 years."
Atomic clocks, based on the minute oscillations of atoms, are the most precise timekeeping devices humans have created and they keep getting better. Atomic clocks are now so accurate that they can detect gravitational waves...
