Riverbed bakes SD-WAN into WAN optimisation

It's all cloudy, innit? Riverbed is hoping to push more large-scale Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) deployments with a data centre version of its SteelConnect, plus integration of the system into its SteelHead appliances under the new moniker "SteelHe…

Henrietta Lacks will be immortalized in an HBO special

Her name may not be widely known outside of medical research circles, but Henrietta Lacks -- and the tumorous cell samples she left behind when she died of cervical cancer in 1951 -- have been crucial to numerous experiments and medical bre…

Lightlines are humanity's latest attempt to protect smartphone zombies

Jaguar and Shell Partnership Lets UK Drivers Use Apple Pay to Pay for Gas Inside Car

Carmaker Jaguar today announced that a collection of its vehicles will support a new in-car cashless payment app that allows drivers to use Apple Pay to pay for gas at Shell stations without having to use a traditional card payment at a pump. Driver…

Microsoft Follows Apple By Hiking Price of Surface Book Laptops in the U.K.

Microsoft has increased the price of its Surface Book laptops in the United Kingdom, following the impact of the country's decision to leave the European Union on the pound sterling (via TechCrunch). Previously, the company had limited its cost a…

Squash review: Drop and compress your way to smaller image files in a flash

When it comes to the web, smaller is always better. If an image-heavy site takes too long to load, visitors will just click over to something else. While there are plenty of software tools for optimizing image files on the Mac, few do it with th…

Keybase offers encrypted chat where you control all the pieces

The gold standard of secure private messaging requires end-to-end encryption between the parties involved with no way for the messaging service to obtain the keys used to scramble the message. Open Whisper Systems’ Signal Protocol and Signal app…

Apple’s iPhone seizes the smartphone sales crown from Samsung

Apple has overtaken Samsung Electronics in smartphone sales for the first time in two years—but don’t count on it staying ahead for long. Samsung sold 76.8 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, giving it a market share of 17.8 percent, but …

12 powerful websites that can replace your PC's desktop software

These days, even brawny tasks like video editing can take place solely in your browser. Check out these great sites for productivity, creativity, security and more.

Report: Apple in talks with Chinese supplier BOE for flexible OLED displays for next-generation iPhone

Ahead of the upcoming iPhone refresh this fall, a new report from Bloomberg details that Apple is considering Chinese company BOE Technology as a potential supplier for displays for the devices. BOE would be the first company outside Japan and Sout…

Possible Apple Watch Band Spring Refresh Incoming as Most Models Are Marked as ‘Sold Out’

If you head over to Apple’s online store, you will notice that many of the Apple Watch Series 2 bundle with different watch band are out of stock and listed as “Sold Out”. The shortage likely hints to an upcoming Spring refresh of the bands from A…

Russians Who Hacked DNC Now Targeting Macs

A Russian group that hacked the Democratic National Committee during last year’s presidential election are now targeting Macs, according to security firm Bitedefender Labs. APT28—also known as Sofacy, Sednit APT, and other names—has been developing …

Meet LogicLocker: Boffin-built SCADA ransomware

Pay the ransom, or restore from backup. Choose wisely! Let's start with the “calm down” part of the article: yes, LogicLocker is ransomware designed for programmable logic controllers, but no, the cyber-geddon isn't upon us.…

Patch My PC 3.0.5.0

Versie 3.0.5.0 van Patch My PC is uitgekomen. Dit programma kan controleren of de laatste versies van een groot aantal programma's ? waaronder Mozilla Firefox, Java, iTunes, Skype en Adobe Flash ? zijn geïnstalleerd. Daarnaast kan het zien welke Win…

GeForce Game Ready Driver 378.66 WHQL

Nvidia heeft nieuwe stabiele GeForce-drivers uitgebracht. De drivers dragen versienummer 378.66 WHQL en zijn geschikt voor Windows Vista en hoger, met zoals gebruikelijk aparte downloads voor 32bit- en 64bit-omgevingen. De drivers kunnen worden gebr…

Android users can now harness the power of neural networks to alter faces

What's Going on With Kellyanne Conway's Twitter Account?

Kellyanne Conway has had a wild day on Twitter. After getting into some trouble for retweeting a white nationalist Twitter account, people began speculating that Conway was on the outs of the Trump administration, using flimsy evidence that Trump ha…

A spanner in the works: Google's cloud database hits beta, gets prices

Ye canna' hand a man a grander (Cloud) Spanner Google's close to plugging a long-standing gap in its public cloud, with its Cloud Spanner distributed relational database hitting public beta.…

Inside Confide, the chat app 'secretly used by Trump aides': OpenPGP, OpenSSL, and more

Security experts pore over encrypted messenger Rumors that President Donald Trump's aides are using an encrypted messaging app called Confide has landed the software firmly in the spotlight – and under the security microscope.…

A spanner in the works: Google's cloud database hits beta, gets prices

Ye canna' hand a man a grander (Cloud) Spanner Google's close to plugging a long-standing gap in its public cloud, with its Cloud Spanner distributed relational database hitting public beta.…

Amazon's Alexa Gets Expanded Calendar Support and Tap Speaker Hands-Free Mode

Amazon has silently updated its Alexa assistant to include Outlook.com calendar support, reports The Verge. Amazon's Echo family of connected smart speakers have always supported Google calendars, but now Outlook users can ask Alexa to add or re…