Day: February 25, 2019

ICANN Warns of ‘Ongoing and Significant’ Attacks Against Internet’s DNS Infrastructure

The internet’s address book keeper has warned of an “ongoing and significant risk” to key parts of the domain name system infrastructure, following months of increased attacks. From a report: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, issued the notice late Friday, saying DNS, which converts numerical internet addresses to domain names,…


Windows 10 PCs to get 5G for first time as Qualcomm unveils new modem

‘Always on, Always connected’ Windows 10 PCs to get a 5G speed boost. …read more Source:: ZDNet


California wants Silicon Valley to pay you a data dividend – CNET

The Golden State thinks tech companies should share the wealth. …read more Source:: CNet


Apache Arrow: The little data accelerator that could

One of those behind-the-scenes projects, Arrow addresses the age-old problem of getting the compute-storage balance right for in-memory big data processing. Operating as a black box, many practitioners don’t know it’s around. But with over a million downloads each month, Arrow’s presence is starting to become known. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Galaxy Fold, Huawei Mate X: Foldable phones are a beautiful, cruel tease – CNET

Commentary: Foldables are stunning. Now if only the masses can get their hands on these cutting-edge devices. …read more Source:: CNet


Amazon Prime Air flight crashes in Texas after 6,000ft nosedive

Three aboard Boeing freighter killed after mystery plummet Three people were killed when an Amazon Prime Air-branded cargo flight crashed near Houston, Texas, on Saturday afternoon.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Fan boy 3: Huawei overhauls Air-a-like MateBooks

New kit runs a bit faster, costs less MWC Huawei’s impressive business laptops are now a bit more affordable. The burgeoning PC giant is bringing MateBook X features to a new lower-priced range announced on Sunday at Mobile World Congress.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


5G Nokia phones unlikely to arrive until 2020, but more US phones are on the way – CNET

CEO of Nokia phone manufacturer HMD says the US is a “laser focus” for the company this year. …read more Source:: CNet


Facebook brings 5G wireless internet to California homes – CNET

At MWC 2019, the social network is demonstrating all the ways in which it’s building out the underlying technology of the internet. …read more Source:: CNet


Ludwig Promises Easy Machine Learning from Uber

Machine learning has brought an old idea — neural networks — to bear on a range of previously difficult problems such as handwriting and speech recognition. Better software and hardware has made it feasible to apply sophisticated machine learning algorithms that would have previously been only possible on giant supercomputers. However, there’s still a learning…