Bitcoin Halving Day Draws Nigh
By Kyt Dotson
Prepare to fall to your knees and shake your fist to the heavens, a terrible milestone is upon us, one that will forever change the fabric of an entire community. It’s not the Mayan…
By Kyt Dotson
Breaking Analysis: Keycard Hacking – How Safe is Your Hotel Room?
Back in September, a series of burglaries at a Hyatt hotel in Houston had hotel management baffled. Now they believe that the rooms were opened using a device that takes advantage of a security…
AI On The Rise: Robots Conquer Working Class and Corporate World
By Cherr Aira
It’s a robot-filled week for artificial intelligence. From manufacturing and labor to stock exchanges, robots are being introduced as men’s accomplices at work. Working Class-Robot Invasion The world’s food consumption will double by 2050.…
HP Official Response to Mike Lynch Letter to Board – “Stand Down Liar”
By John Furrier
HP just issued a response to Mike Lynch’s open letter to the board. HP is saying stand down you fool we’ll see you in court. This is their response to Mike Lynch’s aggressive…
Users Hoaxed into Believing Facebook Copyright Statement
By Amber Harris
We live in an era of social media. No one needs to acquire a real skill to be famous anymore. With the help of Instagram and Facebook, everyone has become a local celebrity, which…
Boundary Brings Big Data to AWS With More Cloud Transparency
Boundary updated its cloud monitoring service this morning with new features that can detect technical difficulties and pending application issues using the power of analytics. The update includes a “proactive alerting” capability that tracks…
Software-Defined Storage is the Missing Link in the Software-Defined Data Center
By Mark Davis
At this year’s VMworld 2012, held in San Francisco, the “software-defined data center” was a major topic. The idea is appealing: make the entire IT infrastructure completely fluid so that all resources–compute, network, and…
Curating Data and Dollars: Monetizing the Untainted Mobile Facebook of Tomorrow
By Saroj Kar
Years ago, when the Internet was new, every visit to a website was a thrilling discovery, like a gold digger exploring the great unknown. But things have changed with the advent of the social…
New Details of Autonomy Accounting Practices Unfold After Investor Sues [VIDEO]
A Hewlett-Packard shareholder filed a lawsuit against the company for an $8.8 billion writedown on Autonomy, the British analytics firm it acquired last year. When the deal was first announced, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison…
NEC ‘Convection Cooled’ Data Centers Slash Energy Use By 30%
Japanese electronics firm NEC has revealed its working on a new kind of data center – one that’s smaller, and relies on convection to slash power consumption by as much as one third over…