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US-Cuba detente presents opportunity for Internet freedoms
Cuba remains one of the last nations on Earth where Internet access remains, for the majority of its people, a forbidden fruit. According to the watchdog group Freedom House, barely five percent of Cuba’s citizens enjoy unrestricted access to the Web. But with yesterday’s news that the United States is moving towards normalizing its relations ...
The rise of automation: Opportunity or a disaster in the making?
The idea that technology will eventually do away with the need for manual, human labor is nothing new. Ever since the first enterprising farmers began using cattle to plough their fields instead of doing the job manually, workers have been fearful of losing their jobs. But while that may have happened, it’s also true that ...
Canonical’s “Snappy” Ubuntu Core bites into Google’s Cloud
Canonical Ltd., the maker of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has just made its snappy Ubuntu Core operating system, designed for running Docker containers, available on Google’s Compute Engine. Ubuntu Core is a newly released, stripped down version of the original Ubuntu OS. It’s designed specifically for large-scale cloud deployments that run applications in Docker containers. ...
MongoDB acquires WiredTiger to boost storage engine performance
NoSQL database giant MongoDB Inc. has moved to acquire WiredTiger Inc., which builds a database storage engine solution, barely a month after including the technology as an option in the latest version of its product. It’s an important buy for MongoDB, and perhaps all the more so for the talent its acquired in the process ...
Cloudera establishes China base to head up Hadoop’s next revolution
Intel-backed Hadoop vendor Cloudera Inc. is hoping to export the Big Data craze to China with the opening of three offices in the country, its just announced. Cloudera already has a small Asian presence thanks to its offices in Japan, but the opening of facilities in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai suggests it has far bigger ...
CISO’s influence grows as cloud envelops the enterprise
In case you need any more evidence that enterprises no longer see the cloud as a security threat, here it is straight from the horse’s mouth – almost 90 percent of IT security leaders have, or are planning to adopt the cloud very soon, according to new research from IBM. That’s probably the most telling ...
Computer model shows Alcatraz escapees likely to have perished
The mystery of three prisoners who famously escaped from the Alcatraz maximum security jail in San Francisco Bay may have finally been solved, thanks to Big Data and computer modelling. In 1962, convicted bank robber Frank Morris, together with brothers Clarence and John Anglin, broke out of the infamously “escape proof” facility on Alcatraz Island ...
Uber hits back at regulators with massive lobbying effort
We’ve all had bad weeks before where nothing ever seems to go right for us. But few of us have had it quite as tough as Uber Inc. has had it over the last seven days. It all started so well too – after weeks of negative press, Uber hit the headlines last Monday when ...
Windows 10 Build 9901 leak gives first look at Cortana on the desktop
Microsoft’s boffins are working overtime to get Windows 10 up to scratch in time for its big release early next year. But that hasn’t stopped someone from spilling the beans so to speak, and there’s been another leak, this time of Windows 10 Build 9901. The freshly leaked build is an exciting one, giving us ...
Docker dodges another security flaw with new patch
Docker’s container tech has been hit by more security woes, with the revelation that an earlier security patch has led to a brand new vulnerability being discovered in the software. Docker rolled out version 1.3.2 last month in order to patch a bug that allowed rogue programs to break out of their containers and access ...