Day: August 27, 2013

Chip daddy: Moore’s Law is about to be repealed, but don’t blame physics

Insider channels Deep Throat from……


Apple Macs and iOS devices en route to Iran

Now that the US government has eased sanctions on tech gadgets, Apple says it will sell Macs, iPhones, and iPads to customers planning to bring those products to the Middle Eastern country.NOw……


The Game Made From NASA Satellite Data

An anonymous reader writes “Kickstarter’s helped start all sorts of indie games, but few as unusual as Lacuna Passage, an adventure game set on Mars with a vast open world that’s been painstakingly recreated from NASA satellite data. You’re able to explore twenty five square miles of the Red Planet in all its barren glory…


Microsoft ups storage limts for SkyDrive Pro

SharePoint and Office 365 users now get more storage with their SkyDrive Pro, the company’s cloud storage product for businesses…….


Telstra in VMware’s sights for hybrid cloud delivery

CEO Gelsinger favours local VMware Service Providers for hybrid cloud build……


Syrian Electronic Army implicated in attacks on Twitter and New York Times

The hacker group gets administrator privileges for Twitter’s domain name record and also appears involved in a New York Times’ Web site outage…….


Supermodder Ben Heck builds a quadcopter

The king of the modders is building a quadcopter from scratch for his YouTube show — and you can enter a competition to win it…….


Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020

Lucas123 writes “Nissan today said it will begin demonstrating autonomous vehicle technology on its all-electric Leaf this year, and plans to begin selling multiple models of self-driving cars by 2020. Nissan said it’s already building an autonomous drive proving ground in Japan. Its goal is availability across the model range within two vehicle generations. The…


Tesla cars ‘hackable’ says Dell engineer

REST authentication is a mess……


Tribeca Cloud automates SMB cloud migrations

The New York services company wins hosting contracts by helping small businesses pick a cloud platform appropriate for their unique infrastructure and automating migrations…….