Google says its Project Loon is close to being able to produce and launch thousands of balloons to provide Internet access from the sky. Such a number would be required to provide reliable Internet access to users in remote areas that are currently unserved by terrestrial networks, said Mike Cassidy, …
Two robots that can change their shape on command have provided the most detailed look yet inside the heart of reactor number 1 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Japan. The reactor is one of three that suffered a core meltdown after the massive tsunami that knocked electrical …
As part of its quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, AMD announced it is shutting down its ultra-dense server systems business, formed three years ago with the acquisition of SeaMicro, effective immediately. AMD bought SeaMicro for $334 million. SeaMicro launched in 2010 with a 10U server that packed a large number …
Broadband provider CenturyLink has joined the long list of ISPs and trade groups suing the U.S. Federal Communications Commission over its net neutrality rules. CenturyLink filed its lawsuit Friday, becoming the seventh organization to challenge the rules approved by the FCC in late February. The FCC officially published the rules …
It wasn’t long after the launch of Slack’s namesake team-communication software last year that the San Francisco company was catapulted into the “unicorn” club — that growing group of startups with valuations above $1 billion. More than a few eyebrows were raised when the company achieved a $1.1 billion valuation …
UNICEF has turned to Snapchat for a social media campaign highlighting the plight of the 800,000 children who have been forced to flee their homes in northeast Nigeria by the conflict raging between the military and insurgents. To reinforce the message of its new report, Missing Childhoods, UNICEF (the United …
Microsoft today said that it would flesh out its Office lineup this month by releasing previews of the productivity apps for Windows 10-powered phones. “The Office Universal apps preview for Windows 10 for phone is expected to be available by the end of the month,” said Jared Spataro, the general …
Many of the first Apple Watch health IT apps will give doctors faster access to critical information and ease communication between health care providers, while other apps will attempt to get patients more engaged with their health. Don’t expect doctors to glance at their wrists to view X-rays or a …
If you’re buying a new 12-inch MacBook and scrambling to find cables that work with the laptop’s new USB Type-C port, you have more options than Apple’s pricey cables. MacBook users can instead buy less expensive USB Type-C cables from third parties. The new MacBook also can work with third-party …
Bloomberg blamed a “combination of hardware and software failures” for a two-hour outage that affected users of its popular data and messaging terminals. The problems, which began at 8:20 am (3:20 a.m. EDT) Friday, prevented thousands of traders and investors from carrying out trading activity. The company said it identified …
Could 15 minutes of exercise save you 15% on your life insurance? If you sign up with John Hancock, it could. The company has become the first to offer ratepayers a discount when they use Fitbit wristbands that enable exercise tracking. For years now, consumers have been able to plug …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that its Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee will hold its first meeting on May 13. The meeting will focus on Rule 611 of SEC Regulation NMS, known as the “Order Protection Rule” or “Trade-through Rule.” Rule 611 requires trading centers to have policies …
Apple Pay is poised to cross the border into Canada this fall, but some Canadian banks are reportedly concerned that Apple wants a bigger cut of each transaction than it takes in the U.S. The Canadian banks negotiating with Apple are Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank of Nova …
With updates for both the core Docker engine and its registry software, Docker has endeavored to make its popular software container technology faster to deploy and easier to manage. Docker Engine 1.6 and the Docker Registry 2.0, both released Thursday, work together to simplify the process of managing Docker containers, …
Virtual reality has come a long way: put on a headset and you can peer into an alien world or feel like you’re laying on a beach in Jamaica. But interacting with that world—reaching out your hand to pick up a virtual object on the screen—still has a long way …
Крупнейший онлайн-аукцион eBay и платежная система PayPal подтвердили свое намерение разрешить принимать BITCOIN-платежи через процессинговую систему Braintree. Компанию Braintree купила компания eBay в 2013 году за 800 млн долларов. Теперь Braintree стала частью новой структуры – PayPal Holdings. О создании данной организации было заявлено комиссии по ценным бумагам и биржам …
Facebook has tripled its detection and elimination of “fake” likes, which can artificially inflate a brand’s prominence on the site and deceive users, the company said on Friday. Facebook began improving its processes for eliminating fake likes this past October. They’re a real problem for the site, because they can …
Attacks against industrial control systems doubled last year, according to a new report from Dell. “We have over a million firewalls sending data to us on a minute-by-minute basis,” said John Gordineer, director of product marketing for network security at Dell. “We anonymize the data and see interesting trends.” In …
Call me a data snob, but I’ve got mixed feelings about putting easy, automated analysis into the hands of people who may not totally grasp the limits of what gets spit back. But for better or worse, that’s the promise of BeyondCore Apps for Office — a slimmed-down version of …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved Friday what some commissioners called a “historic” plan to allow private mobile broadband services to share spectrum with incumbent military users. The FCC voted to approve its so-called Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) plan to open up wireless frequencies from 3550MHz to 3700MHz to …
Testers running Windows 10’s preview must keep the OS relatively up to date or face a bricked PC that won’t boot. The first three builds of Windows 10 Technical Preview — 9841, 9860 and 9879, all released in 2014 — will refuse to boot at the end of April, according …
The U.S. government is making it clear to federal employees what they can and cannot post or tweet about on their favorite social networks. It’s an idea that enterprises should note and use to put their own guidelines in place, according to industry analysts. The U.S. Office of Government Ethics …
The Windows 10 Technical Preview has been out for a few months along with various blogs, articles and presentations. There is a lot out there for both businesses and PC users to digest. Let me give you my Top 10 – not meant to be comprehensive of everything new in …
Google is decluttering its mobile search results page by getting rid of lengthy URLs. Instead of seeing the web address for subdomains, you’ll be greeted with breadcrumbs, which are links that take you to specific sections of a website. You’ll now find those listed right under a site’s name (pictured) …
Investors this week poured at least $350 million into cloud computing companies focused on everything from security to Hadoop clusters to industry-specific apps. Funding of cloud computing companies is showing no sign of abating this year. A few weeks back we rounded up 5 other cloud companies that scored a …
Increasingly, computers are deciding what news stories we read, and may even end up teaching our children to speak. But whether we should allow them to is becoming the subject of a heated debate related to the use of algorithms. Algorithms are pieces of code that, much like a recipe, …