Day: September 11, 2013

NIST denies it weakened its encryption standard to please the NSA

Bruce Schneier tells agency its credibility is shot……


Intel reveals new Haswell-based Chrome OS kit from old, new partners

Peppy, all-day Chromebooks in time for your holiday shopping……


Marissa Mayer describes Yahoo as the ‘world’s largest startup’

Given that Yahoo has bought up what feels like half of the startups in Silicon Valley, the CEO’s appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt seems natural…….


Oracle ships Java 8 Developer Preview for testing, 18 months late

Only six months more to go (fingers crossed)……


Ferrari’s New Car Tech Idea: Make Car Go Really Fast

cartechboy writes “Forget EV batteries and autonomous driving. Ferrari understands old-school advanced car tech — basically, they just want to make the thing go ridiculously fast. The Italians showed off very serious chasis technology today in the new Ferrari Speciale at the Frankfurt Auto Show. The new electronic ‘Side Slip angle Control’ system uses algorithms…


Raspberry Pi: How I spent almost $150 on a $35 computer

Billed as the $35 computer, the Raspberry Pi, has taken the DIY world by storm. It’s a cool project system but it’s no $35 computer…….


Phonebloks: A modular phone you update a piece at a time

Rather than throwing out an entire smartphone when something breaks or you want to upgrade, the Phonebloks concept fits together like Lego so you can swap pieces out as needed…….


Black Holes Grow By Eating Quantum Foam

An anonymous reader writes “The discovery that even the most distant galaxies have supermassive black holes at their cores is a puzzle for astrophysicists. These objects must have formed relatively soon after the Big Bang. But if a galaxy is only a billion years old and contains a black hole that is a billion times…


Why I’m gladly spending $100 more on the iPhone 5S over the iPhone 5C

Only $100 separates the iPhone 5C and 5S. But with all the advantages of an iPhone 5S, paying that extra cash is a no-brainer…….


Ask Slashdot: Are ‘Rock Star’ Developers a Necessity?

An anonymous reader writes “Do you think so called ‘rock star’ developers are necessary at every company? Personally, I don’t think so, and I equate it to not needing a college degree to work at Walmart. If you give every problem a complexity value from 1 to 10, and your problems never get higher than…