New disk drive manufacturer? No such luck

The giddy storage news whirl whirls on and on and on The cloud and Big Data and Hadoop feature strongly in this week’s round-up of storage news, along with channel news. And, just for a moment, we thought we’d found a new disk drive manufacturer. Bu…

New disk drive manufacturer? No such luck

The giddy storage news whirl whirls on and on and on The cloud and Big Data and Hadoop feature strongly in this week’s round-up of storage news, along with channel news. And, just for a moment, we thought we’d found a new disk drive manufacturer. Bu…

Indie games get a permanent home on the App Store

TU Delft organiseert antidronewedstrijd

De TU Delft organiseert een DroneClash-competitie waarbij teams de drones van tegenstanders uit de lucht moeten zien te halen. Het achterliggende doel is om de ontwikkeling van antidronetechnologie te stimuleren.

Shameless crooks fling Star Trek-themed ransomware at world

Live long and (don't) prosper Audacious cybercriminals have created an Star Trek-themed strain of ransomware.…

Netflix just added a button for skipping the opening credits

FBI arrests alleged attacker who tweeted seizure-inducing strobe at Kurt Eichenwald

Monopoly will replace boot, thimble, and wheelbarrow pieces in new edition

Google-diensten hebben last van storing in combinatie met Chrome-browser

Verschillende Google-diensten hebben vrijdag last van storing als ze gebruikt worden in combinatie met de Chrome-browser van Google zelf. De problemen zijn te voorkomen door gebruik van Googles QUIC-protocol uit te schakelen.

TU/e-onderzoekers realiseren 42,8Gbit/s-verbinding met infraroodstralen

Onderzoekers van de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven hebben een draadloos netwerk opgezet gebaseerd op infraroodstralen. Lichtantennes leveren de signalen op verschillende golflengten, waarmee elk apparaat een verbinding van 42,8Gbit/s kan krijgen.

Gov.UK pulls plug on its YouTube ads amid extremism concerns

Needs reassurances they'll be delivered in 'appropriate' way The government has suspended ads from YouTube amid concerns the content is appearing against "inappropriate" material.…

Japan mulls semi-nationalising Tosh (memory biz) – report

State aid considered to keep tech smarts and jobs in Japan The Japanese government is considering providing state-backed aid to Toshiba’s memory business, amounting to near partial nationalisation, to prevent it falling into Chinese or South Korean …

Japan mulls semi-nationalising Tosh (memory biz) – report

State aid considered to keep tech smarts and jobs in Japan The Japanese government is considering providing state-backed aid to Toshiba’s memory business, amounting to near partial nationalisation, to prevent it falling into Chinese or South Korean …

The Muse 5 wireless earbuds are too basic for the price

Trump’s biggest budget cuts to NASA: ranked

GCHQ dismisses Trump wiretap rumours as tosh

Judge Shred UK intelligence agency GCHQ has dismissed US reports - cited by the White House press secretary - that it was involved in running a surveillance operation on Donald Trump before last year's US election as "utterly ridiculous".…

Google’s new encoder makes JPEGs up to 35 percent smaller

Why Breath of the Wild is the future of blockbuster games

Nintendo wil de productie van de Switch verdubbelen naar 16 miljoen stuks

Nintendo heeft besloten om in het komende fiscale jaar, dat loopt van 1 april tot eind maart 2018, de productie van de Nintendo Switch te gaan verdubbelen van 8 miljoen exemplaren naar 16 miljoen stuks.

Qualcomm gaat budget-socs niet langer Snapdragon noemen

Qualcomm voert wijzigingen door in de naamgeving van zijn socs. De modellen in de huidige Snapdragon 200-serie zullen niet langer de Snapdragon-naam dragen, maar gaan Qualcomm Mobile heten. Ook spreekt de ontwerper niet meer van processors, maar van…

Do the numbers, Einstein: AI is more than maths as some know it

Why logic is driving graph databases Microsoft arrived on the graph-database scene last month. Three years in the making, Microsoft released Trinity under a typical-by-now-of-Microsoft-boring-trade name of Graph Engine.…