Move over, Curiosity! NASA plans new Mars rover
NASA is working on the next robotic rover to send to Mars and it’s already looking for ideas about what tools the rover should take with it. …
NASA is working on the next robotic rover to send to Mars and it’s already looking for ideas about what tools the rover should take with it. …
As Obamacares health insurance exchange opened for enrollment today, state and federal sites providing the service were inundated with requests, ultimately leading to slowdowns or outages. …
Northeast Utilities in Connecticut Tuesday confirmed that it plans to turn over part of its IT operations to two India-based outsourcing firms, despite a recent push by state lawmakers to keep it from doing so. …
The flood of stories on government spying will not be slowing soon — in fact the majority of the most important documents detailing how the U.S. National Security Agency collects personal data have not been published yet, journalists from U.K. newspaper The Guardian said on Tuesday. read more
A new survey shows that only 8.7% of tablet buyers want to use the tablet as a replacement for their laptops. read more
Delta is replacing the reams of reference materials normally carried by its pilots with Surface 2 tablets. read more
Mike McNamara, CIO of the British grocery retailer Tesco, says 3D printing will help his company and the retail sector at large. read more
The Cloud Security Alliance has updated its Cloud Control Matrix (CCM), which is designed to help organizations vet the security credentials of cloud service providers. read more
Looking to solidify its refocused efforts on private cloud platforms, Dell today rolled out new features to improve security and manageability of its offerings. read more
Splunk continues to enhance its flagship machine data search engine so it can be used by business analysts and managers, in addition to its typical audience of system and network administrators. read more
Giving away scads of free cloud storage is all the rage these days, but when you've hit your limit, your options are few. read more
As food production gets increasingly complicated, food manufacturers often struggle to track products from raw materials to packaged goods — and, in the event of a recall, from packaged goods to raw materials. Even those with automated quality systems often find it hard to integrate supply chain data. That's why …
Apple's 64-bit A7 processor in the iPhone 5s is more a marketing stunt than a technical enhancement and though it will not deliver any immediate benefits to smartphone users, there are other reasons to move to 64-bit, a Qualcomm executive said on Tuesday. read more
Apple's 64-bit A7 processor in the iPhone 5s is more a marketing stunt than a technical enhancement and though it will not deliver any immediate benefits to smartphone users, there are other reasons to move to 64-bit, a Qualcomm executive said on Tuesday. …
Aruba Networks announced a new Aruba Central cloud-based management service for Wi-Fi networks that could be valuable to companies with branch operations, schools and mid-sized networks where IT support is scarce. read more
The U.S. National Security Agency's efforts to defeat encryption will backfire by eroding trust in U.S.-based Internet services and in the agency's own efforts to aid U.S. companies with cybersecurity, a group of privacy advocates said Tuesday. read more
Government IT leaders envision open, machine-readable data sets from across departments and agencies offering a testbed for innovative new applications and services the feds would never create on their own. read more
Silicon Graphics International has acquired storage company Filetek as the server maker looks to provide customers with better control over petabytes of stored data in high-performance computing environments. read more
Would-be insurance customers in the U.S. ran into early problems today accessing the new federally run healthcare exchange as well as several state-run exchanges. …
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 is the third iteration of the company’s not-quite-phone, not-quite-tablet Note line, and its internal specifications make it one of the most powerful handsets out on the market right now. …
The Galaxy Gear hints and teases at what a great smartwatch could be, but never really nails any single function. It’s packed with potential, and even includes support for third-party apps. But it’s a challenge to use at nearly every turn, and at $300, it feels like an expensive experiment. …
Billionaire trading agitator Carl Icahn today reported that he had, as promised, had dinner with Apple CEO Tim Cook last night, when he lobbied for a $150 billion stock buyback program, a 150% increase over the company’s current plan. …
Компания Panasonic выпустила свои последний девайс – беспроводной динамик SC-NT10. Новинка оборудована аккумуляторной батареей с емкостью 1500 мА/ч и функционирует с использованием технологии Bluetooth 3.0. Новинка имеет на борту адаптер NFC, пассивный радиатор и встроенный микрофон, позволяющий отвечать на входящие звонки смартфона, к которому она подключена. Также на корпусе девайса …
Ранее СМИ писали о том, что компания Sony работает над уменьшенной версией смартфона Xperia Z1, а сегодня появились некоторые характеристики аппарата. Sony Xperia Z1 Mini функционирует под управлением операционной системы Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean и обладает 4,3-дюймовым HD дисплеем с разрешением 1280 на 720 точек. Похоже, что смартфон использует 2,2-Гигагерцовый …
Как сообщается на официальной странице Facebook Newsroom, в конце прошлой недели крупнейшая в мире социальная сеть существенно обновила алгоритм показа рекламных объявлений в новостной ленте под названием Тweak. Это означает, что теперь пользователи будут видеть в своих лентах только актуальные объявления, максимально релевантные их социальному контексту. Важно отметить, что Facebook …
Ежегодно китайские производители мобильной техники борются за то, что первым выпустить аппарат на базе последнего процессора MediaTek. В этом году китайский бренд TCL планирует первым выпустить смартфон на базе новейшего процессора с восемью вычислительными ядрами MTK6592. В прошлом году за первенство использовать процессор MT6589 боролись компании Zopo, THL и TCL, …