Educators have expressed concern about Americans falling behind in tech fields, but there is at least one area in which the United States is still firmly on top. According to statistics from SophosLabs, the United States distributes more spam than any other country in the world, clocking in at a “respectable”18.3 percent of junk email sent. The study tracked the Continue reading
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We are living in an increasingly cloud-powered world where our workloads are consigned to small slices of enormous compute farms — and that world is increasingly filled with noisy neighbors. Continue reading
Bill Gates and Chris Bosh want you to study computer science. Continue reading
Facebook’s Prineville, Oregon data center. If you’re a longtime Facebook user, chances are pretty good that you uploaded some photos to the social network that you haven’t actually viewed in years. And you’re not alone: Facebook stores hundreds of billions of photos, with hundreds of millions uploaded every day. Facebook’s apparently decided on a solution to that immense problem: Continue reading
At Dive Into Media, Xbox execs Yusuf Mehdi and Nancy Tellem weren’t ready to “launch” the new Xbox. But they dropped some hints. Here’s the full interview. Continue reading
In a move that’s sure to cheer everyone who likes having more unlicensed Wi-Fi spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday announced that it wants to follow chairman Julius Genachowski’s plan to free up a 195MHz chunk of spectrum on the 5GHz band for unlicensed Wi-Fi use. The FCC says that freeing up the new spectrum will “provide access to Continue reading
Google teases its wearable augmented-reality tech in a new promo video. Continue reading
Any worries that Dell would be throwing over Linux for Windows because Microsoft was helping Dell go private were premature. The Austin, TX-based computer company has just announced that it’s upgrading its Sputnik Ubuntu Linux laptop for developers. Dell upgrades its developer edition Ubuntu Linux laptop – ZDNet