Obama wants to boost U.S. supercomputing power With China currently sitting at the top of the supercomputing heap—its Tianhe-2 computer has been considered the world’s most powerful for the last two years—U.S. President Barack Obama is looking to step up American efforts via the new National Strategic Computing Initiative. Set …
Japanese robot Pepper is getting an intelligence upgrade via IBM’s Watson, but that doesn’t make interacting with the real world any less challenging. The humanoid will channel Watson’s artificial intelligence (AI) knowledge base when it starts work as a sales clerk next year at Yamada Denki, a major electronics retailer. …
Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center CC BY 2.0 There’s never a good time to run into software bugs, but some times are worse than others – like during a mission to space. Spacecraft of all shapes and sizes rely heavily on software to complete their objectives. But those …
Motherboard security journalist, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai has never had any love for Apple but in the last few days he has found 950 million reasons to dump Android for an iPhone. “As you might have heard, a security researcher revealed on Monday that a series of bugs deep inside Android’s source …
The cyberespionage group that stole the personal records of millions of Americans from U.S. health insurer Anthem and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has also reportedly breached United Airlines. The data stolen from United includes flight manifests, which contain information on passengers, their travel origins and destinations, Bloomberg …
These are exciting times to be a gamer in China, according to 19-year-old Dai Qi, a soon-to-be college student. The country has recently lifted its ban on video game consoles, and gamers like Dai are trying to decide between buying an Xbox One or a PlayStation 4. “Now we don’t …
Like so much of IT, database security requirements largely depend on the situation and environment. Needs may be completely different from one shop to another, even among different servers in the same shop. This is the problem I have with best practices. They give advice without any context, and people …
The cyberespionage group that stole the personal records of millions of Americans from U.S. health insurer Anthem and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has also reportedly breached United Airlines. The data stolen from United includes flight manifests, which contain information on passengers, their travel origins and destinations, Bloomberg …
Hoping to rally the worldwide development community around the Internet of Things and drive business to its cloud services as well, IBM has launched a community space for programmers to write software to connect remote devices to back-end cloud systems. The site, called DeveloperWorks Recipes, provides a base for developers …
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order setting up the National Strategic Computing Initiative, to coordinate government agencies, academia and the private sector for the development of high-performance computing systems. Adopting a “whole-of-government” approach, involving all departments and agencies with expertise and interests in high-performance computing (HPC), one …
В ноябре прошлого года Microsoft сообщила, что все аппараты из серии Lumia на ОС Windows Phone 8 будут обновлены до Windows 10 Mobile. Сейчас на сайте компании появилась более подробная информация, согласно которой возможность обновления будет ограничена определенными моделями аппаратов. Список смартфонов выглядит так: Lumia 430 Lumia 435 Lumia 532 Lumia 535 Lumia 540 …
This company’s support techs install new Wi-Fi access points throughout the business — with not quite the results management was expecting, according to a pilot fish on the scene. “Many of the switches in the building cannot support power over Ethernet, so none of the access points were configured for POE,” …
Компания Google внесла новую функцию в свой сервис. Теперь пользователи смогут узнать часы работы различных заведений и масштаб их загруженности. Все необходимые данные компания получает от самих пользователей Google. Эта функция даст возможность пользователем проще сориентироваться при посещении тех или иных заведений, избавит от ненужных очередей, поспособствует более эффективному тайм-менеджменту. …
Финский разработчик игр и приложений для мобильных устройств, компания Rovio, как и обещала, выпустила игру Angry Birds 2. В Rovio заявили, что это абсолютно новая игра, а не ее обновление. На разработку “Злых птичек” 2 ушло почти 3 года. Как заявил генеральный директор компании Пекки Рантал, в игру введены новые персонажи …
US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order setting up the National Strategic Computing Initiative that will adopt a coordinated strategy involving multiple government agencies, academia and the private sector for the development of high-performance computing systems. Adopting a “whole-of-government” approach, involving all departments and agencies with expertise and …
Long-time memory partners Intel and Micron took the wraps off a new type of non-volatile memory but didn’t give details on some of the most pressing questions about how it will work. 3D XPoint is a new type of memory with all the advantages of memory technologies on the market …
Финская компания Nokia, известная своими качественными мобильниками и тем, что продала соответствующее подразделение Microsoft еще два года назад. В последнее время финский производитель направил свои усилия в сферу сетевого оборудования. Возвращение на рынок потребительской электроники называют реально громким, ведь Nokia показала не смартфон и не планшет, а камеру для виртуальной реальности. В данный момент на рынке …
Oracle is looking to expand the market for its Sparc-based servers with a new, low-cost processor dubbed Sonoma that its engineers will discuss publically for the first time later this month. The company isn’t saying yet when the chip will be available, but if it delivers as advertised it could …
Lackluster demand for its flagship Galaxy S6 smartphone and higher marketing costs led Samsung Electronics to another quarter of falling sales and profits in the April to June period. Net profit at the company was 5.75 trillion won (US$49 billion), down 8 percent on the same period a year earlier, …
Windows 10 was released to the public on Wednesday, and Microsoft is already encouraging enterprises to begin considering an update. Jim Alkove, corporate vice president for enterprise and security in Microsoft’s Windows and Devices group, said the release provides a number of important new features for enterprise IT departments. In …
When people grow tired of posting photos and videos on social media, what then? Virtual-reality posts, according to Mark Zuckerberg. We’re entering into an era in which people’s posts increasingly will revolve around video, “but that’s not the end of the line,” according to Facebook’s CEO. After video, he said, …
To bring order to low-altitude airspace so its Project Wing delivery drones can get off the ground, Google is proposing a set of rules for operating aircraft below 500 feet. The proposal calls for all drones, including those flown by hobbyists, to constantly transmit identification and position information so airspace …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Daniel M. Hawke, chief of the Division of Enforcement’s Market Abuse Unit and former Director of the Philadelphia Regional Office, is leaving the agency after 16 years of service. He will step down in August to return to the private sector. Mr. …
nVidia выпустила планшетный компьютер Tegra Note 7 еще в 2013 году. Он был замечен под разными брендами, например, можно вспомнить EVGA tegra Note 7 и Zotac Play Tegra Note. Согласно последним данным игровой планшет получит обновление операционной системы. Последняя и актуальная версия платформы, доступная в данное время пользователям, это Android 4.4 KitKat, но в …
Компания Casio пополнила свой ассортимент новой фотокамерой, которая получила название Casio Exilim EX-ZR60. Новинка, адаптированная своими техническими характеристиками для путешествий, оборудована 16-Мегапиксельным CMOS сенсором и объективом с эквивалентом 25 – 250 мм. Присутствует поворотный 3-дюймовый жидкокристаллический дисплей, позволяющий быстро отображать готовый результат. С передней стороны разработчик поместил вторую кнопку для съемки, скорее всего для …
Компания Samsung сообщила, что очередной мероприятие южнокорейского гиганта Samsung Unpacked, где будет представлено несколько новых флагманов и прочих устройств пройдет 13 Августа 2015 года. Мероприятие пройдет на территории Соединенных Штатов Америки и, стоит заметить, это впервые, когда Samsung проводит Unpacked в начале Августа. Обычно компания проводит свое фирменное мероприятие ближе к …