Hardware

One thing was conspicuously missing from the Oculus demos at GDC 2019: cameras.

You need at least two (if not three) of the company's signature webcams to run its PC headset, the Oculus Rift. Those cameras are not great. They come with funky, oversized stands. They're not as effective at sensing a headset as the HTC Vive's "dumb" infrared boxes. And they must be plugged into a PC, which creates a certain kind of cord hell and requires a PC with plenty of spare USB 3.0 slots.

D-Link, a provider of network-based home and business solutions, has added two new cameras to its Vigilance surveillance portfolio.

The DCS-4705E 5-Megapixel Outdoor Mini Bullet Camera and the DCS-4605EV 5-Megapixel Outdoor Dome Camera offer businesses of any size easy to install, 24/7 protection with modern features and capabilities.

HMD is unveiling a truckload of smartphones at Mobile World Congress this year. We've already talked about the flagship Nokia 9 Pureview, and now it's time to cover some of the lower-end models, which is where the Nokia brand has made a serious resurgence in the past few years. Today, HMD is announcing the Nokia 4.2, Nokia 3.2, and the Nokia 1 Plus, and we have prepared a big spec sheet to celebrate.

(Note that while all of these prices are in dollars, we don't yet know which phones, if any, are coming to the US.)

Today is Samsung's big launch event, and the company has made the thoroughly leaked Galaxy S10 official. The company announced the S10 and S10 Plus smartphones onstage today at Samsung Unpacked 2019 after it unveiled the impressive and incredibly expensive Galaxy Fold foldable handset.

On February 20, Samsung is throwing a huge party in San Francisco, where it will take the wraps off its flagship smartphone lineup for 2019. Given the unbelievable amount of leaks that poured forth, we know just about everything Samsung is planning to show off. We're going to learn all about the Galaxy S10.

In the world of computer graphics cards, AMD has been behind its only rival, Nvidia, for as long as we can remember. But a confluence of recent events finally left AMD with a sizable opportunity in the market.

Industrial cybersecurity provider Honeywell has doubled down on its protection against USB-based threats towards industrial operators.

The company, which provides a solution called SMX to counteract Universal Serial Bus (USB) threats, has been upgraded to include centralised threat management, multiple form factors, and additional visibility into USB activity on protected end nodes.

Microchip is no stranger to security solutions. They began with a Crypto ASIC collaborating with IBM in 1998 and implemented a number of other security solutions over the years culminating in a most impressive Advanced IoT Secure Element solution with their ATECC608A.

At the 2018 MEMS Executive Congress, Cynthia Wright, Principal Cyber Security Engineer, MITRE Corporation presented a call-to-action keynote topic on Cybersecurity (See my article here)

Hardware security key maker Yubico has a new product in the works to give iPhones the same authentication technology available today to Android phones and to Windows and Mac personal computers.

Previewed at the CES show this week, the YubiKey for Lightning supports Apple's proprietary iPhone and iPad port on one end and the USB-C port common on Android phones and PCs. By tapping into logon standards such as FIDO 2, WebAuthn, and U2F, hardware security keys provide extra security in addition to passwords -- or sometimes with no password at all.

AMD's next flagship video card will be the Radeon VII. The VII slots in above the RX Vega 64 and averages about 29 percent faster, putting it within spitting distance of Nvidia's RTX 2080.