It’s been four months since the FCC passed its net neutrality rules, and broadband investment still hasn’t suffered. Many opponents of net neutrality claimed that the implementation of the FCC’s regulation would reduce broadband investment in the United States, but that hasn’
Lets say the American government is interested in spying on you and, while you’re pretty sure the company you’re getting your IT equipment from is safe, Snowden’s leaks revealed that the NSA could very well intercept your equipment before it reaches you can install bugs on it. What
On Friday, a post on the Tor Project’s blog sent out an alarming message: “The Tor Project has learned that there may be an attempt to incapacitate our network in the next few days.” More than 2 million users use the network to obscure their identities online, but law enforcement h
Everyone knows that solid state drives are quick, but capacity remains a major concern. Intel and Samsung have tackled the problem with a technology called 3D NAND which builds upon existing SSD technology by adding more planes to each memory chip’s die. The new Samsung 850 Evo drives, which can ach
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is being heralded as the saving grace of restless, star-gazing pioneers everywhere. And for good reason! It’s the first real attempt in decades at pushing human space travel to its furthest possible limits. And what feat of engineering is powering this manifestati
Robots often find themselves in dangerous situations, and their distinct lack of biology makes them perfectly suited for battling infectious disease. Next month, a simulcast workshop will determine if and how they’ll join the West African fight against Ebola. Certain robots have already been d
It looks like a standard SD card, but SanDisk’s new Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I memory card is noteworthy, by packing 512GB into its flat frame, it’s the highest capacity SD card available to consumers. The company says the huge card is aimed at pro-level photographers and videographers who w
The wearable device market is quickly becoming saturated. Many companies trying their luck in this market are sticking with smartwatches while a few like Google have also tried to make smartglasses a thing. Don’t count BlackBerry out. The company is conducting internal research on different wearable
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is taking Oracle to court. The state of Oregon is unhappy with the performance of the website that Oracle built for its Obamacare rollout. The site, frankly, didn’t work as expected. The cost of the Oracle effort? Hundreds of millions of dollars. The best part
We are more or less familiar with the presence of mobile devices these days that sport dual-core and quad-core, and in some cases, octa-core chipsets, but what about this new prototype from the brains over at MIT? They have apparently come up with a 36-core computing chip that will make use of a sys
NTT Communications, the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group, announced today the immediate start of a free trial for its “WebRTC Chat on Skyway” web application, which uses WebRTC technologies for browser-to-browser communication between devices in real time,
Everyone including Intel probably knows that they’re late to the mobile game which is currently dominated by ARM and companies that rely on their technology and architecture, such as Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple, NVIDIA, MediaTek, and etc. To date we’ve seen Intel attempt to gain more ground by catering