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Seeing Around the Corner With Lasers—and Speckle
Researchers from Rice, Stanford, Princeton, and Southern Methodist University have developed a new way to use lasers to see around corners that beats the previous technique on resolution and scanning speed. The findings appear today in the…
Forced Google Sheets Migration Leaves Users Fuming Over Broken Services
Developers are up in arms over a forced migration to version four of Google Sheets in March 2020, saying the migration breaks numerous functionalities.
Google Sheets is a web-based software tool for creating and storing spreadsheets. The…
Scottish Police Roll Out Encryption-Busting Cyber Kiosks
Technology that allows police officers to break passwords on smartphones and pull user data from them for analysis is set to be rolled out from January 20, Police Scotland has confirmed — despite sustained criticism from NGOs and…
From Hype to Reality: Are We on the Cusp of a Digital Transformation ‘Golden Age’?
Throughout the years, we’ve seen a history of cultural ‘golden ages’ that have transformed the way we live, think and work. From the innovations in Ancient Egypt that revolutionised architecture, agriculture and scripture, to the…
From Hype to Reality: Are We on the Cusp of a Digital Transformation ‘Golden Age’?
Throughout the years, we’ve seen a history of cultural ‘golden ages’ that have transformed the way we live, think and work. From the innovations in Ancient Egypt that revolutionised architecture, agriculture and scripture, to the…
Chip Sales Slump, PC Sales Rebound
Semiconductor sales slumped sharply in 2019, new data from Gartner shows, falling nearly 12 percent on the previous year to $418.3 billion (£321 billion).
Intel resumed its place as the biggest chip company, taking back the top spot from…
EXCLUSIVE – MP Vows to Call in Home Office Over Latest ESN Fudge
MP Meg Hillier, the former chairman of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, has vowed to call in the Home Office over a £40 million proposal to buy new hardware for the Emergency Services Network – a move necessary because handsets…
NSA to Microsoft: Here’s a Massive 0Day – Can We Be Friends Again?
Microsoft has pushed out an urgent patch for a vulnerability in a Windows component, crypt32.dll, which handles cryptographic messaging functions, after the bug was discovered and reported by the National Security Agency (NSA).
The NSA’s…
Red Hat, IBM Line Up Behind Google in Clash with Oracle over API Copyright
IBM and Red Hat have joined the legal affray between Google and Oracle, jointly filing a “friend of the court” brief that asks the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in favour of Google, with the two backing the position that APIs are not…
Why is Visa Forking Out a Cool $5.3 Billion for Payments Firm Plaid?
Visa has agreed to buy financial services startup Plaid for $5.3 billion — double its last valuation of $2.65 billion in late December 2018 and an estimated 35 times earnings.
The acquisition is the latest in a string of multi-billion…