Amazon forced to reboot its EC2 instances to fix Xen bug
Amazon Web Services is set to begin a messy but necessary reboot of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in order to fix a bug that was found within the Xen virtualization platform. The…
Responding to small business demand, UPS adds 3D print locations
By Collen Kriel
On the back of its successful experiment with 3D Print in six markets, The UPS Store will now offer the service at nearly 100 stores countrywide. According to The Wholers Report 2014, the 3D…
Xamarin bundles over 1,000 test devices in the cloud
Xamarin, the mobile app-dev specialists, has announced the launch of its new web-based “Xamarin Test Cloud”, which lets developers test out their apps and programs on over 1,000 devices. Developers will be able to…
Location, location, location: The age-old real-estate mantra applied to Flash in the datacenter
By Guest Author
Over the last decade, virtualization has revolutionized the data center by more effectively leveraging the CPU and memory resources on the server to increase hardware utilization and reduce operating expenses. Of course, as with…
Bash! Take that Heartbleed, there’s a new bug in town
Linux users, which includes the vast majority of the world’s enterprises, could be in for a nasty shock. A security team at Red Hat has just uncovered a deadly new bug in the Bash…
Facebook’s fleet of jumbo drones will take flight by 2015
Facebook Inc. is revealing more information about its unmanned aerial vehicle ambitions. The social networking giant plans to have a fleet of drones flying overhead at all times, in the future. They won’t be…
ARM’s fastest microcontroller yet will power next-gen IoT
ARM Holdings plc hopes to cement its dominance of the connected universe with a beefy new embedded processor aimed at paving the way for device makers to deliver more advanced features that were too…
A modular TV that tracks your health
This week’s Smart Health roundup features a healthy round of funding for iHealth Lab, a television that does more than entertain you, and a fresh effort to help people with food allergies better enjoy their…
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 September 24: Enter the dragon—PayPal partners with BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin
By Kyt Dotson
This week, PayPal signing on with BitPay, Coinbase, and GoCoin really takes the cake as it paints an interesting future for the mass adoption of Bitcoin. While the PayPal partnership does not mean that…
Heroku treats developers to DevOps-enabled dashboard, faster analytics
Users of Heroku’s popular cloud-based development platform logged into their accounts today to discover a revamped interface with an array of new capabilities that iron out many of the remaining kinks in building and…