During an event in New York City, Google unveiled some new services and initiatives with the aim of supporting freedom of expression and knowledge within a larger battle that Google faces for some time in some areas geography of the world. Always sensitive to issues related to freedom of expression in particular through the network, ...

Microsoft and Academic Research Consulting are teaming up to bring Oculus VR’s Laird Malamed and others  to Boston for an event titled “The Future of Virtual Reality With The Oculus Rift”. The event will focused on Oculus team members who will be joined by independent developers and Researchers from a number of the local universities ...

If you want to find the computer genius of tomorrow, it is worth paying attention to those children who play Minecraft today. That is precisely why Google, in creating their own mod for Minecraft, includes the quantum behavior of the game. Quantum physics is in many ways a mysterious and elusive field, but has also ...

Before his suicide in January 2013, Aaron Swartz had worked together with the hacker and Wired editor Kevin Poulson on a platform for whistleblowers called Dead Drop. The software allows the transmission of messages and documents between whistleblowers and journalists. The sources of the data are protected by the fact that even the news organization ...

If you’re a fan of online and mobile games–and need to find a way to feed that habit with virtual cash–you probably cannot stay away from Rixty. For those unaware, the Rixty is the largest platform for buying and selling virtual currencies within the online gaming and digital entertainment world. The platform allows users without credit ...

CA Technologies is developing the strategy of LISA, an innovative platform that creates virtual environments for automated testing and development of applications even in the cloud. The platform takes care of the necessary services to virtualize applications by simulating their dynamic behavior, their data and their performance. LISA is an end-to-end solution that provides automation ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the names of three researchers chosen to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013. Michael Levitt, a British-US citizen of Stanford University; US-Austrian Martin Karplus of Strasbourg University; and US-Israeli Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California will share the prize. The three scientists developed research ...

3D printing, or personal fabrication from a broader prism, are used to produce a wide variety of objects, some useful and some not so. But 3D printing often have much impact because of its enormous capacity to stimulate the collective imagination and sense the enormous potential to create things differently. But sometimes even surprising place, ...

Avaya, a global leader in business communications, wants its partners to exploit the advantages of the medium enterprise market through cloud collaboration with a communications tool. The company provides a number of innovative software and cloud-based services on the market that will fundamentally change the collaboration within companies. Avaya unveiled a set of new software ...

Today marks the Ada Lovelace Day, a tribute to the British Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, known as Ada Lovelace, and recognized for being the first person to create an algorithm intended to be processed by a machine, that is, the first computer programmer in history. The celebration aims to highlight women who have ...