Category: Computer Internet Operating Systems Security

Microsoft is using customers’ bandwidth to deliver Windows updates

Microsoft is using a Torrent-like setup to help alleviate the load on its servers by allowing users to get updates from other users’ computers, using >>>

Posted: July 31, 2015 in Computer, Internet, Operating Systems, Security

88,000 Nvidia Shield tablets recalled due to heat risk | PCWorld

Got Nvidia’s 8-inch Shield Tablet? Thinks it’s a hot piece of gaming equipment? You don’t know the half of it. Source: 88,000 Nvidia Shield tablets >>>

Posted: July 31, 2015 in Gadgetry, Mobile

Ebola vaccine trial proves 100% successful in Guinea

Rapid development and testing of drug may bring current epidemic in west Africa to an end and control future outbreaks, experts say Source: Ebola vaccine >>>

Posted: July 31, 2015 in Biological

Goodbye, Android

I was once a fanboy, but I can’t take it anymore. Source: Goodbye, Android

Posted: July 30, 2015 in Computer, Security

Sweet revenge against superbugs

A special type of synthetic sugar could be the latest weapon in the fight against superbugs. A team of scientists has discovered a potential new >>>

Posted: July 30, 2015 in Biological

China-Tied Hackers That Hit U.S. Said to Breach United Airlines

Source: China-Tied Hackers That Hit U.S. Said to Breach United Airlines

Posted: July 29, 2015 in Computer, Security

Jamestown Discovery: Graves of Four Founders Unearthed – Williamsburg Yorktown Daily

Archaeologists from the Jamestown Rediscovery Project work at a site where the bodies of four of the founders of English America were discovered. Source: Jamestown >>>

Posted: July 28, 2015 in Social

Intel’s 3D memory is 1,000 times faster than modern storage

Source: Intel’s 3D memory is 1,000 times faster than modern storage

Posted: July 28, 2015 in Computer, Storage

Superfast fluorescence sets new speed record

Researchers have developed an ultrafast light-emitting device that can flip on and off 90 billion times a second and could form the basis of optical >>>

Posted: July 28, 2015 in Computer, CPU, Processors

DNA discovery: Modern Amazonians linked to indigenous Australians

new genetic analysis has found a common ancestor shared by some Amazonians and the indigenous peoples of Australia and New Guinea, suggesting that the first >>>

Posted: July 27, 2015 in Social