Researchers have found that once malware is on a computer, it can indirectly control a hard-drive (HDD) activity LED, turning it on and off rapidly (thousands of flickers per second) -- a rate that ...

Researchers have discovered a way to hack into a computer by aiming a drone at the tiny blinking light found on most Windows desktops. The espionage technique was successfully demoed earlier this ...

Monitoring your CPU usage isn't the most fun thing in the world, but when you're working with CPU intensive programs it's a necessity. If you're sick of flicking back-and-forth between programs to see ...

DIYer Taylor put together a small circuit inside his computer that monitors his computer's temperatures, and lights up an LED inside his case when it starts getting too hot. While you could always ...

If you weren’t concerned about the sight of a drone hovering outside your window peering in at you (and, for the record, you probably should be!), you certainly will when you hear that it could be ...

Visible Light Communication is a data trasmission protocol that uses visible light to send data at 3 Mbps using LEDs and special models. The system works by modulating the LED lighting in your home or ...

Liquid cooling experts Aqua Computer have a new product called the QUADRO. It is intended as a single solution for controlling both RGB LEDs as well as fans. The compact device only measures 54 x 49 x ...

Developed by scientists working at Korea University, Korea, and Technical University at Berlin, Germany, a brain-computer interface could allow users to control a lower limb exoskeleton by decoding ...

A former bookkeeper who embezzled more than $750,000 from her employer and filed false tax returns was sentenced to three years in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Alaska ...