Researchers at NASA and the University of California at Berkeley are developing a robot that’s robust enough to be dropped directly onto planets and go straight to work. Current missions to Mars have been complex affairs, typically using parachutes to guide robots and their delicate scientific instruments down to the …
Microsoft yesterday updated the preview of Office 2016 for the Mac, fixing bugs and improving performance and stability. The Redmond, Wash. company debuted Office 2016 for OS X in six weeks ago. According to a change log posted by Microsoft, Tuesday’s update touched all four applications included in the preview: …
IKEA has launched its Wireless Charging collection of furniture, which has built-in Qi-enabled wireless chargers for compatible mobile phones. In addition to offering bedside tables, floor- and table lamps, desks and simple charging pads, IKEA is also selling a DIY kit that lets users embed wireless chargers into furniture of …
Automakers are constantly adding new tech features to cars, but it can be hard to stay on top of the news. These ten innovations in current (or soon to debut) cars and trucks provide a few extra safety and convenience benefits. They show that technology rarely stands still, especially if …
Storm, a top-level Apache project, is a Java framework designed to help programmers write real-time applications that run on Hadoop clusters. Designed at Twitter, Storm excels at processing high-volume message streams to collect metrics, detect patterns or take actions when certain conditions in the stream are detected. Typically Storm scenarios …
Twitter, in an effort to attract new users, is turning its home page into a portal for news and content around dozens of topics. Twitter.com has been redesigned to make content posted to the site more accessible to people who do not have accounts with the service. Those people can …
Microsoft is equipping its Azure cloud service with a tool to debug PHP-based Web applications that are running on the platform. The service “offers in-depth insight into how an application is performing,” said Andi Gutmans, who is the CEO of Zend Technologies and one of the original developers of PHP. …
XYZprinting has been making hay by offering some of the most affordable consumer plug-and-play 3D printers, shipping 30,000 of its da Vinci model machines last year. Its latest — the da Vinci Junior 1.0 — was released today and is the smallest and least expensive yet. Make no mistake, though, …
The term ‘disruption’ gets tossed about a lot — too often — in the technology industry. But it isn’t always hype. Backed by nearly half a billion dollars in investment, CEO Scott Dietzen and Pure Storage are hard at work disrupting a big chunk of the enterprise storage market owned …
In an effort to boost its mobile offerings, Yahoo is reportedly finishing up a deal to buy Foursquare. Foursquare’s search app can be used to as a local city guide to find shops, restaurants and other points of interest. The startup also created the social networking app Swarm, which allows …
With the Social Security Administration estimating that each day for the next 15 years, an average of 10,000 Americans will turn 65, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today issued a report to help broker-dealers assess, craft, or refine their …
With the upcoming Surface 3, Microsoft is ending experimentation and bringing back hardware and OS consistency across its line of tablets, hoping that consumers and businesses will find a lot to like. The Surface 3 is radically different than its predecessor, Surface 2, which had an ARM processor and the …
Automated teller machines have been around for decades, but surprisingly few changes have been made to the technologies that run them. That’s about to change. NCR on Wednesday rolled out new software that will transform ATMs to use the cloud with Android and a thin-client model of computing. The result, …
Adobe Systems released security patches for ColdFusion, Flex and Flash Player, the latter addressing a flaw for which an exploit is already available. The Flash Player updates, namely Flash Player 17.0.0.169 for Windows and Mac, Flash Player 11.2.202.457 for Linux and Flash Player Extended Support Release 13.0.0.281, address a total …
The European Commission might have a hard time proving that Google abused its supposed dominant market power in the European search market. The Commission, the European Union’s executive and regulatory arm, filed official antitrust charges against Google on Wednesday after a five-year investigation. Google is alleged to have systematically favored …
“Apparently, hackers really do still party like it’s 1999,” Verizon said in its 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) regarding how often really old vulnerabilities are exploited and result in data breaches. But the real problem is you. It’s me. It’s each and every one of us as the breakdown …
This month Microsoft has released 11 updates, with four rated as critical and the remaining seven rated as important. At first glance, this looks like another large update release from Microsoft, similar to last month’s massive release of 15 patches. However, if you are running a modern Microsoft platform (Windows …
Oracle released patches for 98 security issues across a wide range of products, including 14 in Java. This marks the last free patch for Java 7, and users are being encouraged to upgrade to version 8. Three of the Java vulnerabilities patched Tuesday have the maximum severity score of 10 …
In Brussels, at high noon today, the EU fired the first hail of anti-trust charges towards internet giant Google. But after a protracted four year legal back-and-forth with the EU, Google is an experienced sharp-shooter. Armed to the teeth with influence, cash, and legal expertise, many expect Google to wage …
Chinese company Ninebot won’t be accused of offering knockoff Segways any longer: On Wednesday, the three-year-old startup announced it had acquired Segway. Ninebot’s CEO Gao Lufeng said the U.S. company is an influential brand, with a strong patent portfolio and market presence. “With the two brands together we will have …
Nokia has entered into a memorandum of understanding to acquire Alcatel-Lucent in a deal that would value the French telecommunications equipment maker at €15.6 billion ($16.5 billion). The Finnish company is also considering a possible divestment from its Here mapping and navigation business. On Tuesday, Nokia said it was in …
Apple watchers know we’ve come a long way since 2014, which means developers at WWDC 2015 on June 8-12 will get to explore a host of new technologies they didn’t know existed last year. Each is interesting in isolation, but together they comprise a program of platform potential to justify …
The European Commission has charged Google with abusing its dominant position in Internet search services in Europe by systematically favoring its own comparison shopping product, Google Shopping. It also opened an antitrust investigation into Google’s Android mobile operating system. Such conduct infringes EU antitrust rules because it stifles competition and …
To hear some tell it, the world will soon be abuzz with small drones that inspect bridges, monitor pipelines, survey crops and help assess damage for insurance claims. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …
С тех пор как японские смайлики Emoji добрались до iOS в 2011 году, их популярность существенно возросла и распространилась на другие мобильные платформы. …
Consultant pilot fish has 25 years of experience as a mainframe programmer and database administrator when this company asks him to come on the payroll. “I transferred into a Unix system administrator position to expand my skill set, and things looked set for an exciting few productive years before I …