San Francisco?s Moscone Center is packed with wild and extravagant displays this week thanks to the RSA Security Conference. You can fight a sumo wrestler, get your picture taken with a giant robot, ogle Ferraris and other race cars, win game shows and take home a wealth of prizes. It?s a carnival for nerds, punctuated by the calls of carnival barkers endorsing their particular flavor of digital security.
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RSA: Giant Robots, Sumos and Now Cloud Security
Lytro’s light-field camera allows you to focus your photos after you’ve taken them.
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Focus on the Future
It’s human nature to want something for nothing. But when it comes to web services, that tendency seems to often blossom into a veritable psychosis. In the brick and mortar world, personally identifiable information has long been mashed into a commodity that is sliced, diced and sold.
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Stop the ‘Do Not Track’ Madness
Chip designer and chief Intel rival AMD has signed an agreement to acquire SeaMicro, a Silicon Valley startup that seeks to save power and space by building servers from hundreds of low-power processors. With the purchase, AMD will not only turned itself into a server maker
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AMD Snatches New-Age Server Maker From Under Intel
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DJ Spooky on Apps, Wi-Fi Music Parties and the ‘Post-Playlist Era’
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform experienced a major outage on Wednesday, with its service management system down for several hours, reports said earlier today. But the fix did not follow the cloud script, and the problem — identified as a Leap Day security certification bug — continues.
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Leap-Day Bug Fingered in Microsoft Azure Cloud Outage
Let’s skip to the numbers: 750 horsepower. Zero to 62 in 3.1 seconds.
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Behold: The Most Fabulously Ferocious Ferrari Ever
Microsoft?s Azure cloud platform suffered a serious outage on Tuesday, leaving many customers unable to access core parts of the service for more than 12 hours.
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Half-Day Outage Darkens Microsoft’s Azure Cloud
There’s a growing threat to the U.S. military, according to the Pentagon’s premier research wing. No, it’s not Iran’s nukes or China’s missiles
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Darpa Warns: Your iPhone Is a Military Threat
Paleontologists in northeast China have discovered a wildly snaggle-toothed skull that belonged to a previously unknown, 120-million-year-old flying reptile.
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120-Million-Year-Old ‘Ghost Dragon’ Pterosaur Discovered in China
A decade ago, Linux developer Red Hat faced a decision that would make or break the company: whether to stop producing the very product that gave Red Hat its name. To move from small player to big-time enterprise software competitor, Paul Cormier argued that Red Hat had to ditch the freely downloadable Red Hat Linux
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How Red Hat Became A Billion Dollar Business
The hot new trailer for Joss Whedon’s The Avengers is a virtual scruff-of-the-neck grabber, showing not only precious seconds of city-crushing war but also the strife within the superhero supergroup as Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and S.H.I.E.L.D
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New Avengers Trailer Builds Up Supergroup Drama
While cloud-sourcing IT infrastructure can liberate institution resources to focus on educational activities, there have been, to date, very few cloud solutions that speak directly to the core business of higher education, teaching and learning. But Newer entrants such as MIT’s Open Courseware and Udacity have had a deeper focus on higher education.
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Education in the Cloud: Exploring Opportunities
While cloud-sourcing IT infrastructure can liberate institution resources to focus on educational activities, there have been, to date, very few cloud solutions that speak directly to the core business of higher education, teaching and learning. But Newer entrants such as MIT’s Open Courseware and Udacity have had a deeper focus on higher education.
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Education in the Cloud: Exploring Opportunities
While cloud-sourcing IT infrastructure can liberate institution resources to focus on educational activities, there have been, to date, very few cloud solutions that speak directly to the core business of higher education, teaching and learning. But Newer entrants such as MIT’s Open Courseware and Udacity have had a deeper focus on higher education.
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Education in the Cloud: Exploring Opportunities