Apple has won strong endorsement from the Electronic Frontier Foundation this week, which says, “We commend Apple for its strong stance regarding user rights, transparency, and privacy.” Just prior to WWDC, Apple CEO, Tim Cook, was nonored for his ‘corporate leadership’ at EPIC’s Champions of Freedom event in Washington. Morality …
The E3 show is usually a time for games and occasional console hardware, but AMD used the giant game show to launch its new Fury brand of GPUs. These cards feature a few firsts: the first card to come with a water-cooled system rather than a fan, and the first …
LinkedIn plans to continue closely vetting researchers for its bug bounty rewards program, saying it reduces the number of distracting erroneous and irrelevant reports. The decision to keep its program private “gives our strong internal application security team the ability to focus on securing the next generation of LinkedIn’s products …
Oracle has reported a sharp drop in profit for the quarter just ended, with customers spending more on its cloud services but less on software that runs in their own data centers. Chairman Larry Ellison portrayed the shift as a positive one and said Oracle can make more money selling …
A computer problem that has brought down a key State Department system for issuing visas and passports at U.S. embassies worldwide won’t be fixed until at least next week. The glitch that has hit the Consular Consolidated Database has affected applications filed since May 26, and while the government hasn’t …
This year’s STEM grads know what they want and are more prepared for the workforce than ever. According to a new report from Accenture, the class of 2015 is skilled, motivated and loyal — and anxious to join the ranks of IT. To read this article in full or to …
Sitting at a desk all day isn’t healthy. Countless studies show prolonged sitting raises the risk for diabetes, heart disease, cancer and myriad other ailments. Even for people who exercise daily, the negative effects of a sedentary rest-of-the-day can trump the benefits of a workout. To read this article in …
To boost its in-house, machine-learning efforts, Twitter has acquired Whetlab, a startup that makes it easier for companies to use machine-learning tools. As part of the acquisition, announced Wednesday, Twitter will shut down Whetlab’s beta service on July 15, and will no longer accept sign-ups for the product. Current users …
Microsoft today shuffled its executive ranks, giving Windows chief Terry Myerson more responsibilities and casting out former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop. The Redmond, Wash. firm also pared the number of major engineering divisions from four to three. CEO Satya Nadella broke the news Wednesday, with Microsoft issuing both a statement …
Cisco plans to invest $10 billion in China, although its sales in the country are slumping due in part to persistent security concerns surrounding U.S. technology. The investment marks a “new chapter” for the company and includes agreements with the Chinese government to expand in areas including research and job …
In a decision that could have major implications for the way Uber does business in its home state, the California Labor Commission has ruled that a driver was an employee when she was driving for the company. Uber has always claimed that its drivers are contractors, a classification that means …
The Federal Communications Commission plans to fine AT&T $100 million for misleading customers by throttling speeds on the lines of millions of customers who had “unlimited” data plans. The FCC alleges that AT&T did not adequately disclose to its customers on “unlimited” data plans that their speed would slow drastically …
Many organizations are in the early stages of looking at the Internet of Things and trying to figure out how it might help them improve their businesses. Further, they wonder if the upcoming avalanche of wearables, smartwatches, 3D heads-up displays, etc., will trigger a massive BYOD thrust they are ill …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a mutual fund adviser, its principal, and three mutual fund board members with failing to satisfy their statutory obligations in connection with the evaluation and approval of mutual fund advisory contracts. Richmond, Va.-based advisory firm Commonwealth Capital Management was charged with violating Section …
Alcatel-Lucent and chipmaker Sckipio Technologies are debuting modem technology that will help make speeds of hundreds of megabit per second over copper cables a reality. The technology that makes it possible is called g.Fast. Step by step, chipmakers and equipment manufacturers are getting it ready for large-scale commercial services that …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an enforcement action against a company that illegally offered complex derivatives products to retail investors. The Dodd-Frank Act implemented two key requirements for any security-based swaps offering to a retail investor who doesn’t meet the high standard of an “eligible contract participant” defined …
As a result of massive data breaches experienced by major corporations in every industry, data security is the talk of the tech world. It has also become a board-level topic. As these highly-publicized data breaches show, security – or the lack of it – can have enormous economic and brand/reputation …
Amazon Web Services’ EMR (Elastic MapReduce) service has been upgraded to handle Spark applications, giving enterprises that want to use the increasingly popular processing engine a way to do so without building their own infrastructure. Apache Spark is an open-source distributed processing engine used for big data workloads. It’s a …
Исполнительный директор Samsung, господин JK Shin сообщал, что следующий планшетофон южнокорейского гиганта, Galaxy Note 5, будет показан только в Сентябре, а сейчас стало известно из последнего отчета, что аппарат представят в Августе, перед мероприятием IFA 2015 и презентацией следующего поколения “яблочных” мобильников iPhone 6S и iPhone 6S Plus. Презентация смартфона Galaxy Note …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against a Massachusetts-based investment advisory firm and its owner for funneling more than $17 million in client assets into four financially troubled Canadian penny stock companies in which the owner has undisclosed business and financial interests. The SEC alleges that clients …
Professor Noam Chomsky revolutionized linguistics in 1957 with his publication of Syntactic Structures, and his Chomsky hierarchy from the previous year remains a foundation stone in computer science for programming languages. But programming languages are a far cry from speaking A.I., and Chomsky’s unprecedented success in that part of linguistics should bear the blame for holding back …
In the past few years, we have witnessed many incidents surrounding race and racial divide in the nation. Everyday there are stories related to racial tension on most major news channels. My journey to becoming a chief information officer in higher education technology has also seen its share of challenges …
Whether or not you remember that theme(plot.title = element_text(face = “bold”)) is to make a graph headline bold or ggplot(mydataframe, aes(x=myxcolname, y=myycolname, fill=mygroupcolname)) + geom_bar(stat=”identity”, position=”dodge”) is for a grouped bar chart, dataviz with ggplot2 can involve a lot of typing. That’s why I’ve got two words for you: Code …
There’s a reason ggplot2 is one of the most popular add-on packages for R: It’s a powerful, flexible and well-thought-out platform to create data visualizations you can customize to your heart’s content. But it also can be a bit overwhelming. While I find the logic of plot layers to be …
Samsung Galaxy S6, S5, S4 and S4 Mini phones have a massive flaw that allows an attacker to take over the device. It’s in the keyboard code, of all places, thanks to a custom SwiftKey build. There are about 600 million of these things in circulation, it’s thought. The bug …
Amazon on Wednesday will call on Congress to embrace automated drone flights and come up with a set of simple, nationwide regulations that will allow its proposed Prime Air service to get off the ground. The company is one of several that is lobbying U.S. lawmakers hard to accept looser …