This month is not starting very well for technology enthusiasts. Most of us have fond memories of Zalman, a company that has been producing advanced cooling solutions since 1999. Some are old enough to remember the fan-like CNPS6000 Socket 370 coolers and the first Reserator liquid cooling kits. Zal
Artec Group, a leading developer and manufacturer of professional 3D software and hardware, announced the debut of its Shapify Booth in the USA. This first-of-its-kind booth creates a full scan of a person or object in just 12 seconds and automatically produces a detailed 3D model from this data, wh
The next big thing is here, as Samsung likes to say in its ads. But fewer people appear to be buying it. Samsung, which is based in South Korea, on Tuesday published a financial earnings preview that forecast a profit of about 7.2 trillion won, or $7.1 billion, for the three months that ended in [&h
Anti-virus firm Avast! has ‘fessed up to a breach. The small upside is that the mess only impacts the company’s forums. As the company’s CEO Vincent Steckler has blogged “Less than 0.2% of our 200 million users were affected. No payment, license, or financial systems or other data
The White House is asking Congress to pass new privacy laws that would add more safeguards for Americans’ data and provide more protections for emails sought in the course of a law enforcement investigation. The recommendations are among six offered by President Barack Obama’s counselor John Podesta
It’s a guessing game parents like to ponder: What will my child look like when she grows up? A computer could now answer the question in less than a minute. University of Washington researchers have developed software that automatically generates images of a young child’s face as it ages through a l
The Yahoo CEO said Tuesday that she was bullish on search, indicated more Asian investments may be on offer, and said one of the most valuable things about the company is the vast amount of information it has about its users. Speaking at a Goldman Sachs technology conference in San Francisco, Mayer
As computers enter ever more areas of our daily lives, the amount of data they produce has grown enormously. But for this “big data” to be useful it must first be analyzed, meaning it needs to be stored in such a way that it can be accessed quickly when required. Previously, any data that needed to
We live in a world where convenience comes at the cost of privacy. Public cloud services make our lives so much easier but the companies that own these services (Google, Facebook, etc.) offer this convenience in exchange for selling our information to the highest bidder. While it’s possible to
Jelly is a new app that is designed to search the group mind of your social networks for the answers to whatever questions you have. The app lets users connect it with their Facebook and Twitter accounts, so if one of your contacts sees the post and has an answer for it, the person can answer [&hell
What makes encryption so safe isn’t that it can’t be cracked, all encryption can be cracked, its the sheer amount of time and effort it would require to do so. Even with a powerful supercomputer, it could take years to crack a single, high-end encryption. This is something that the NSA h
The popular 60-watt and 40-watt incandescent light bulbs will stop being produced in the U.S. on the first day of 2014. This means that once suppliers run out of stock for those light bulbs, consumers will be forced to purchase more energy-efficient alternatives. The problem is that only 40% of cons