by Pritti Bhabra | 7 Feb, 2019 | Technology News
The team behind the pocket-sized Raspberry Pi computer is opening its first high street store in the city it was invented – Cambridge. The firm will also offer a new starter kit of parts. Ebden Upton, the founder, hopes the shop will attract customers who are ‘curious’ about the brand.
The store will offer merchandise and advice on the use of the computer which measures 3.4 inches by 2.1 inches and is designed to encourage people to try coding and programming. The computer was the brainchild of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, established by a group of Cambridge scientists in 2006 and launched in 2012. The Raspberry Pi resembles a motherboard with ports and chips exposed, used principally as an educational tool for programming. It has now sold 25 million units globally and remains the best selling British computer.
www.bbc.co.uk/technews (7th February 2019)
by Pritti Bhabra | 5 Feb, 2019 | Technology News
The European Commission has ordered the recall of a children’s smartwatch because it leaves them open to being contacted and located by attackers. The Commission said that the Enox Safe-Kid-One device posed a serious risk as data sent to and from the watch was unencrypted allowing data to be easily taken and changed. The recall is believed to be the first issued because a product does not protect user data.
‘A malicious user can send commands to any watch making it call another number of his choosing, can communicate with the child wearing the device or locate the child through GPS,’ wrote the Commission in its alert notice.
Enox has said that the decision was excessive. Ole Anton Bieltvedt, the founder of Enox, said that the watch had passed tests carried out by German regulators last year allowing it to be sold. The version the Commission tested was no longer on sale, he added.
www.bbc.co.uk/technews (5th February 2019)
