Top 10 IoT security risks for businesses
Organizations must adopt a security-by-design approach to best combat threats created by the Internet of Things, according to Deloitte. IoT and the security challenges that tech companies face Cisco’s Michele Guel, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Architect, discusses IoT and how enterprises are working to secure the IoT infrastructure. While the rise of the Internet…
First-ever ‘carbon-positive’ packaging made from cork
Spotted: The British natural-cosmetic company Lush has developed what may be the first-ever “carbon-positive” packaging. The new packaging is made from cork instead of plastic. Lush recently received its first order of 6,000 cork pots and aims to purchase an additional half a million more in the next year. Lush has also established ethical standards…
App safely connects cooks with customers in Libya
Spotted: The Yummy! app enables cooks in cities across Libya to deliver their home-cooked food to customers. Fatema Nasser, 21, and Azeeza Adam, 32, developed the app to increase employment opportunities for Libyan women. It also has enhanced security features. The cooks can apply to be a vendor on the app and then send samples…
An eco-friendly method for producing pain-relief medicine
Spotted: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) are developing a version of Tylenol that avoids fossil fuel-heavy processes. Traditionally, the process to create acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, involves coal tar, which is a by-product of carbonising coal. The researchers use a natural compound derived from poplar trees,…