Should you buy the new iPod? Old vs. New: full specs
Apple has updated its iPod line with the long-rumored iPod touch, new iPod shuffle and nano. The iPod touch received an upgrade, but the same cannot be said for the shuffle and nano, as the…
Coming this fall: What we know about Google’s two new Nexus phones
Google is expected to announce its next flagship smartphone sometime in October, but consumers may be surprised as to what the company will be unveiling this year. Rumors suggest that there will be two…
What you missed in the Smart World: Wearables that charge themselves, and more
This week’s Smart World Series features smart tips to keep homes safe this summer, smart wine bottles that prevent counterfeit spirits, wearable tech that doesn’t need to be charged, the launch of a new…
Smithsonian launches Kickstarter to preserve Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit
By Eric David
Kickstarter Inc. has been used to fund everything from multi-million dollar video games like Star Citizen to the world’s most expensive potato salad, and now the Smithsonian Institution is turning to Kickstarter to preserve some…
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How SIOS is bringing high-availability into the cloud | #CubeConversations
While a significant milestone in and of itself, SIOS Technology Corp.’s recent foray into machine learning represents only the latest leg of an innovation journey that traces back decades to the dawn of distributed…
Keeping it real: Mr. Robot Episode 4 proves the show is much bigger than hacking (spoilers)
As hacker group Fsociety plans to take down Evil Corp the worst thing that could have happened to USANetworks’s Mr. Robot in episode 4 was a car chase, or a typical heist caper at…
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What you missed in Big Data: Sentiment insights
The data spotlight turned back to sentiment analysis last week after IBM Corp. pulled the curtains back on a new cloud-based service that can infer attitude from natural language communications. It’s the latest fruit of its…
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What you missed in Cloud: Tying up loose ends
Last week marked a big milestone for the cloud after business intelligence giant MicroStrategy Inc. made the latest iteration of its widely-used analytics platform available on a subscription basis through Amazon Web Services. The launch comes…
Ashley Madison users to be screwed in new ways as site hacked, user details may be released
By Duncan Riley
Online extramarital affairs hookup site Ashley Madison has been hacked and users may get screwed in entirely new ways, with the hackers appearing to have obtained details of some, if not all users of…
VMware, Microsoft stay on top in Gartner’s latest virtualization quadrant
Gartner Inc.’s latest Magic Quadrant for x86 server virtualization shows that VMware Inc. and Microsoft continue to lead the field by some distance, with the race among the “niche players” to become “number three”…