Yahoo is updating its search service on mobile devices, taking a leaf out of Google’s book and highlighting content such as images, videos and reviews ahead of regular search results. The changes, announced Thursday, apply to Yahoo search on the mobile web in the U.S., in browsers such as Safari …
The bridge to the future may be built by robots. A research team led by a Harvard professor is exploring technologies that would allow swarms of robots to build bridges, towers and other structures in places where human workers can’t go. The simple, autonomous robots would take a supply of …
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The photos are flowing again from Pyongyang. A week after mobile Internet users in North Korea began seeing messages telling them the site was blocked, access has been restored, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. The block was an unusual one for the country, but then nothing about the Internet …
Red Hat continues to make inroads into the enterprise storage software market, improving two of its core storage technologies and striking partnerships with key IT system resellers. The company has updated both its Ceph and Gluster storage system software, in time for the Red Hat Summit, the company’s annual user …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella laid out his new mission for the company in an email sent out Thursday to all employees. “Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more,” he wrote. It’s a much briefer mission statement than the one he unveiled …
The International Space Station is going to be getting a little more like Star Trek. NASA announced today that it is teaming up with Microsoft to enable astronauts onboard the orbiting space station to use the company’s virtual reality headset. Two pairs of Microsoft’s HoloLens computerized eyeglasses are scheduled to …
Red Hat continues to make inroads into the enterprise storage software market, improving two of its core storage technologies and striking partnerships with key IT system resellers. The company has updated both its Ceph and Gluster storage system software, in time for the Red Hat Summit, the company’s annual user …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella laid out his new mission for the company in an email sent out Thursday to all employees. “Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more,” he wrote. It’s a much briefer mission statement than the one he unveiled …
Efforts to fix cybersecurity problems at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) may be doomed because the agency is moving too quickly and ignoring some best practices, an auditor said Thursday. Even before two recently disclosed breaches at OPM, agency director Katherine Archuleta pushed to improve cybersecurity at the …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has named John C. Roeser as Associate Director and deputy head of the Office of Market Supervision in its Division of Trading and Markets. Mr. Roeser will assume his new role immediately. Mr. Roeser replaces Heather Seidel who was named in …
Gaming platform company Unity Technologies is doubling down on improving its software quality, and letting developers know what it has planned for the future with a new public roadmap. Unity has made a name for itself with a platform developers can use to build games for smartphones, PCs, TVs and …
Companies large and small are scrambling to keep up with the demands of an increasingly mobile world, and on Thursday Salesforce unveiled a new line of tools that’s designed to help. Salesforce Service for Apps taps the CRM giant’s Service Cloud to let any organization to embed multichannel customer service—including …
If operators are to build 5G mobile networks with download speeds at 10Gbps and above, they are going to need a lot more spectrum—but getting it won’t be easy. The amount of spectrum allocated to 5G will determine how fast networks based on the technology will eventually become. Until recently, …
Finnish company Uros has launched an LTE version of its wireless hotspot that can be equipped with 10 SIM cards to make roaming abroad easier. It’s slowly becoming more common for operators to let traveling users surf the Web and access email and apps via LTE networks, but the practice …
IFTTT for Android has several new recipes that could add precious minutes to your phone’s battery life. The new IFTTT Android battery channel lets you set up your phone to turn off Wi-Fi or Bluetooth automatically when the battery reaches a particular percentage level, record each time your battery gets low in …
Looking to establish itself as the leader in the nascent container technology market, Red Hat has enabled one of its flagship products to support containers fully and released a new container management platform, too. Containers are a hot topic at the Red Hat Summit taking place this week in Boston, …
After months of anticipation, the high-end Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition smartphone is going on sale—sort of. As expected, the MX4 is only available in Europe, but even if you meet the geographical requirements, getting your hands on one takes legwork. Meizu has set up an online game that involves scrolling …
Google and its lobbyists have had more meetings with European Commission officials than any other company, according to figures published by Transparency International on Wednesday. With 32 meetings logged between December and June, Google’s lobbying is topped only by that of BusinessEurope, whose 67 member companies span the automotive, aviation, …
A computer Trojan that hides its malicious code inside PNG image files counts healthcare organizations in the U.S. among its primary targets. The Stegoloader Trojan uses digital steganography techniques to sneak past computer and network defenses. It originally appeared in 2012, but has seen a resurgence over the past several …
Windows versus Linux for businesses The question of whether Linux is better than Windows has been around for a long time, and the answer usually seems to vary depending on the needs of the user. But IT Pro has a recent article that compared Linux and Windows for businesses, and …
The container revolution is upon us. Companies from Red Hat to IBM, Amazon Web Services to Microsoft and even VMware are all into containers. And where there is a hot new technology, there are of course hot startups. In the past year interest and buzz about containers has soared. A …
Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group has been on the receiving end of continued criticism over its factories’ labor conditions for years. But on Thursday, the company’s CEO let loose his outrage over the complaints. “Our workers very much love to work at this company,” Terry Gou said. “If I put …
The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) this week announced the latest version of its Qi (pronounced “chee”) wireless charging specification, which provides three times the amount of power as the majority of in-market Qi charging products. In fact, the new 15w WPC wireless spec offers the same amount of power as …
Samsung yesterday denied it had blocked a Windows update on its hardware but acknowledged that it was manipulating Microsoft’s Windows Update, a charge leveled Tuesday by a researcher. “It is not true that we are blocking a Windows 8.1 operating system update on our computers,” a Samsung spokesperson said in …
In releasing an open source alpha version of the Famous Framework this week, Famous aims to revamp the division of technical responsibilities and improve on the MVC (model view controller). Builders of the Famous framework learned a lot from the early release of the framework in April 2014 as well …