Is The Steam OS Really Good?
You would think that Valve's own games wouldn't have this problem, but Portal, Team Fortress 2, and DOTA 2 all took massive frame rate dips on SteamOS compared to their Windows counterparts.
View ArticleIs Mozilla Dropping Smartphones For IoT?
One of the solutions through the internal tests early doors is the Firefox Smart TV platform, an already fragmented market that should still be licking its wounds from the Matchstick debacle.
View ArticleAT&T Selects Austin To Test 5G Wireless Service
AT&T announced that it will kick off field trials of faster 5G wireless technology this summer in Austin, Texas. The 3GPP industry standard for 5G, also known as Fifth Generation wireless, is not...
View ArticleImagination Shows Off Next-Gen PowerVR
The range also provides more application support, which pretty neatly positions PowerVR to have a stab at the IoT arena, which Imagination is already working on with its ‘IoT in a box’.
View ArticleWill Imagination Get Bitten By Apple?
That LIGO detection was the signature produced by 2 orbiting and merging black holes, a discovery that not only confirmed one of Einstein's final predictions of general relativity, but also directly...
View ArticleApple Releases Developer’s Preview Of Safari For OS X
Apple has finally released its first developer preview of Safari for OS X, saying it is following in the footsteps of other major browser makers — all of whom provide early looks at their...
View ArticleMicrosoft Wants Windows 10, Cortana At Center Of Home Automation
Microsoft’s long term goal is to make home automation a breeze in Windows 10, and the company featured several related Internet-of-things announcements at its ongoing Build conference. Windows 10 will...
View ArticleWill Google Stop Using Java?
Google would also have to make its entire standard library Swift-ready, and support the language in APIs and SDKs. Some low-level Android APIs are C++, which Swift cannot bridge to. Higher level Java...
View ArticleIs Valve’s Steam Getting Toxic?
There are far more sales to be lost from permitting abuse than from telling harassers they're no longer welcome. Valve should give the latter a try.
View ArticleIs Mozilla Going After The FBI?
Mozilla has concerns that the FBI has found a vulnerability that it will not disclose. The firm wants to know what it might be so that it can apply a fix. The FBI has not helped out, so the software...
View ArticleThe IoT Move Appears To Be Short On Security
The problem is that security is not considered early enough in the design process so it has to be dealt with later, or presumably not at all. Steffens explained that a security stitch in time saves nine.
View ArticleIBM Joins R Programming Consortium
IBM has joined the R Consortium with a “significant investment,” which was announced at the Apache Spark Summit, becoming a top-tier Platinum supporter of the open-source R programming language. R,...
View ArticleMozilla Establishes Fund To Audit Open-source Code
A new Mozilla fund, named Secure Open Source, will provide security audits of open-source code, following the discovery of critical security bugs like Heartbleed and Shellshock in key pieces of the...
View ArticleSkype Launches New Chromebook And Linux Versions
Linux and Chromebook owners now can now install new versions of Skype. Microsoft launched an alpha version of a new client for Linux on Wednesday, in a push to get users of the open-source operating...
View ArticleGoogle Launches New Cloud Natural Language API
Google’s intelligent cloud developer tools added new features with the launch of a new Cloud Natural Language API. The service is aimed at helping developers create applications that understand human...
View ArticleTech Firms Form OTrP To Support IoT Security
Marc Canel, vice president of security systems at ARM, explained that the OTrP will put security and trust at the core of the IoT.
View ArticleIs The IoT A Security Disaster Waiting To Happen?
Schneier also suggested that if Russian security services were indeed behind the attack on the systems of the US Democratic National Committee there is no reason why they wouldn't target...
View ArticleChrome Sets December As Deadline For Purging Flash Content
Google has set an early December deadline for removing most Flash content from its Chrome browser, adding that it will take an interim step next month when it stops rendering Flash-based page...
View ArticleIs Samsung Readying A 10nm SoC
A clock speed without knowing the architecture is insufficient to make any analysis. We've seen in the past that 4GHz processors were slower than 2.5GHz processors.
View ArticleMozilla Brings New Ad-blocking Feature To Firefox
Mozilla has unveiled three new test features for Firefox, including one that separates YouTube videos from the browser and another that may signal towards a more aggressive ad-blocking strategy by the...
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