Day: December 24, 2018

This man spent $5,000 of his own money to put Zimbabwe on Street View – CNET

Tawanda Kanhema took a bunch of 360-degree cameras to the streets of Zimbabwe and even managed to map the Zambezi river on a speedboat. …read more Source:: CNet


Microsoft plans new 4K webcams to bring facial recognition to all Windows 10 devices, says report

Microsoft will reportedly release its own webcams in 2019 to bring Windows Hello facial recognition to all Windows 10 devices. …read more Source:: ZDNet


The solid state of storage in 2018: Latencies, they are dwindling. On-premises, the kit is glistening…

A beautiful sight, we’re happy tonight… Walking in a storage wonderland Roundup 2018 wasn’t too shabby for storage as the three-pronged attack of IoT edge, AI and multi-cloud defeated notions of the public cloud eating on-premises storage. Revenues also rose, capacities increased and latencies dived to boot.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Huawei Exceeds 200 Million Smartphone Shipments, Setting Company Record

Huawei’s 2018 was tumultuous, to put it mildly, but the company has at least a few reasons to brag. The Chinese mobile giant has revealed that it shipped over 200 million smartphones in the year, setting a new record. Last year, Huawei moved 153 million smartphones units. From a report: The Chinese phone maker said…


IPv6 Christmas Display Uses 75 Internet’s Worth of Addresses

We’ve seen internet-enabled holiday displays before, and we know IPv6 offers much more space than the older IPv4 addressing scheme that most of us still use today, but the two have never been more spectacularly demonstrated than at jinglepings.com. The live video stream shows an Internet-connected Christmas tree and an LED display wall that you…


SpaceX Launches Air Force’s Most Powerful GPS Satellite Ever Built

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket roared to life and streaked away from Cape Canaveral early Sunday carrying the first in a powerful new generation of GPS navigation satellites into orbit. It was the California rocket builder’s 21st launch this year and its first Pentagon-sanctioned national security mission. From a report: Propelled by 1.2 million pounds…


LEDs and Pi Let You Virtually Decorate This Online Christmas Tree

Anyone who has decorated a Christmas tree knows that the lights are what really make the look. But no matter how many strings you wrap around it, there never seems to be enough. Plus the standard sets either sit there and do nothing, or just blink on and off at regular intervals. Yawn. But hackers…


Threats to Look Out for in 2019 – How to Protect Mid-Tier Enterprises from Tomorrow’s Known and Unknown Cyberattacks

This year was laden with cybersecurity challenges pertaining to “opportunistic attackers” and attempts to compromise individuals’ computers for credentials and financial information harvesting. …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine


The new Aquaman movie converted me from Marvel to DC – CNET

Commentary: Move over, Marvel. CNET’s Bonnie Burton explains why Jason Momoa’s Aquaman is the kind of superhero the world needs right now. …read more Source:: CNet


Huawei exceeds 200 million smartphone shipments, setting company record – CNET

It credits the success of its P20 and Honor 10 phones, among others. …read more Source:: CNet