Announcement Total 80 articles, created at 2016-03-18 12:01 1 Surface Book review Microsoft's Surface Book is a clever piece of kit but does that make it worthy of the (2.00/3) "ultimate laptop" crown?,Laptops,Portable,Tablets ,Microsoft,Surface Book,laptop,tablet,Windows 10,Surface Pen,Surface,Microsoft Surface 2016-03-18 12:01 929Bytes www.computing.co.uk 2 Microsoft Edge Gains Extension Support And Pinned Tabs In Latest Preview Build (2.00/3) This, well, this has been a long time coming. Windows 10 launched officially on July 29, 2015, and with it... 2016-03-18 06:03 3KB www.anandtech.com (2.00/3) 3 New Stagefright exploit puts millions of Android devices at risk Millions of Android devices are at risk yet again after researchers found a new way to exploit an older vulnerability that was previously patched by Google. 2016-03-17 19:24 3KB www.itworld.com 4 ​Apple's hybrid cloud plan: Google, AWS, Microsoft Azure like most companies Apple is diversifying its infrastructure-as-a-service footprint with Google along with (2.00/3) Amazon Web Services. Repeat after me: Every enterprise will have multiple cloud infrastructure providers. 2016-03-17 14:03 3KB zdnet.com.feedsportal.com 5 Exasol shrinks its in-memory database onto an Intel NUC for proof-of-concept analytics work Free edition of Exasol's in-memory database designed to run on a single server or PC for big-data pilot projects,Big Data and Analytics ,Intel,Exasol,Big Data Summit,in-memory database,Big Data 2016-03-18 12:01 3KB www.computing.co.uk 6 Nine out of 10 UK CIOs 'concerned' about EU's new data protection laws Organisations face fines of up to four per cent of global turnover under new EU data protection laws,Leadership,Legislation and Regulation,Security ,CIO,GDPR 2016-03-18 12:01 2KB www.computing.co.uk 7 Half of organisations would struggle to get mission-critical systems up-and-running in hours following a disaster - UPDATED Computing research: organisations fear terrorism almost as much as flooding,Security,Leadership ,security,Disaster Recovery,Business Continuity,Fujitsu 2016-03-18 12:01 969Bytes www.computing.co.uk 8 Five things to expect from Apple's imminent iPhone launch All the rumours about Apple's 21 March launch in one handy place,Hardware,Mobile Phones,Communications ,Apple,iPhone 2016-03-18 12:01 2KB www.computing.co.uk 9 The data scientist - a role dissected Computing research investigates whether a data scientist is really any different from a data analyst, data engineer or BI specialist,Big Data and Analytics ,Big Data,Big Data Summit,data science,data scientist,Analytics 2016-03-18 12:01 893Bytes www.computing.co.uk 10 Microsoft SharePoint 2016 and Project Server 2016 released to manufacturing Latest version of Microsoft's collaboration platform is now integrated with Project Server,Business Software,Applications ,Microsoft,SharePoint,project management,collaboration 2016-03-18 12:01 3KB www.computing.co.uk 11 CityFibre CEO Greg Mesch's ambitious plan to bring FTTP to 100 UK towns and cities - and beat BT in the process Firm's £90m acquisition of Kcom in December has made it a force to be reckoned with in the broadband space,Telecoms ,BT 2016-03-18 12:01 807Bytes www.computing.co.uk 12 Budget 2016: Osborne announces moves to boost broadband, coding, 5G and driverless cars Chancellor also unveils initiatives that should help smaller tech companies and start-ups ,Budgets and Investment,Strategy,Careers and Skills ,5G,Driverless cars,Budget 2016-03-18 12:01 924Bytes www.computing.co.uk 13 Rural Payments Agency chief: GDS and Defra didn't listen to warnings that CAP project was failing 'I was not in a position to have my opinion prevail,' says RPA's Mark Grimshaw,Government,Leadership ,Government,Agriculture,Public sector 2016-03-18 12:01 2KB www.computing.co.uk 14 LinkedIn being used as a 'front door' to phishing attacks Computing's research reveals phishing is the top threat to businesses, and is increasing in severity, while attacks use novel methods to make potential victims feel comfortable before sending their payloads,Hacking,Business Software ,Mimecast,phishing,Cyber security,email,LinkedIn 2016-03-18 12:01 4KB www.computing.co.uk 15 If you have less than a petabyte of data you don't need Hadoop 'Use it when you need it but when you don't, don't bother,' says Vincent de Lagabbe, CTO of bitcoin analysis firm Kaiko ,Big Data and Analytics ,Cassandra,Apache Software,Apache Spark,Hadoop,Bitcoin 2016-03-18 12:01 3KB www.computing.co.uk 16 TfL CIO Steve Townsend on the Internet of Things, Big Data, chief digital officers and reporting into marketing Townsend explains how 'customer experience' has meant he has had to change his reporting line and investigate the use of IoT,Leadership,Internet of Things,Big Data and Analytics ,CIO,TfL 2016-03-18 12:01 973Bytes www.computing.co.uk 17 EUV Lithography Makes Good Progress, Still Not Ready for Prime Time At the recent annual SPIE Advanced Lithography conference, Intel, TSMC and other leading semiconductor companies said that significant strides have been made in... 2016-03-18 08:40 14KB www.anandtech.com 18 Lattice and MediaTek to Collaborate On Reference Smartphones For SuperMHL over USB-C Lattice Semiconductor and MediaTek have joined forces to create reference smartphones with 4K video outputs using USB Type-C connectors and cables. The outputs... 2016-03-18 08:16 3KB www.anandtech.com 19 NVIDIA Announces GameWorks SDK 3.1 Innovation is hard work. Doing work that has already been done elsewhere can be satisfying, but also annoying - no-one wants... 2016-03-18 08:16 2KB www.anandtech.com 20 Best Tablets: Q1 2016 The last time we updated our tablet guide was right around the Christmas shopping season. We haven't seen many tablet launches since then... 2016-03-18 08:16 12KB www.anandtech.com 21 Logitech Announces G610 Orion Brown And G610 Orion Red Mechanical Keyboards Today Logitech unveiled two new mechanical keyboards under their G branding, with the G610 Orion Brown and G610 Orion Red. As I’m sure... 2016-03-18 08:16 2KB www.anandtech.com 22 AMD Unveils GPU Architecture Roadmap: After Polaris Comes Vega Although AMD’s GDC 2016 “Capsaicin” event was primarily focused on game development – it is the Game Developers Conference, after all – AMD did... 2016-03-18 08:16 3KB www.anandtech.com 23 How Yahoo Keeps Trying to Reinvent Itself Yahoo is under more pressure than ever to increase returns for investors. Here's a look at steps CEO Marissa Mayer has taken to reinvent Yahoo. 2016-03-18 09:26 1KB www.eweek.com 24 'Game of Thrones' meets Dr. Seuss in 'Oh, The Places It'll Snow' This mashup of the classic Dr. Seuss book "Oh, the Places You'll Go" and the violent fantasy world of Westeros makes for a whimsical take on the very adult "Game of Thrones" TV series. 2016-03-18 00:07 2KB cnet.com.feedsportal.com 25 Razer Unveils The Updated Razer Blade: Chroma Keyboard, Skylake, And A Lower Price The 2015 Razer Blade was a nice evolution in the history of Razer’s 14-inch gaming notebook lineup. This 0... 2016-03-18 05:21 4KB www.anandtech.com 26 Sony to Start Selling PlayStation VR in October for $399 Sony has published the price of its PlayStation VR virtual reality headset and confirmed its final specifications and launch timeframe on Tuesday. The company... 2016-03-18 05:21 4KB www.anandtech.com 27 The Corsair Strafe RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review with MX Silent (Red) Switches Cherry's MX Silent switches are making their debut on the Corsair Strafe RGB gaming mechanical keyboard. Corsair has the exclusive on the MX... 2016-03-18 05:21 3KB www.anandtech.com 28 Kishonti Announces GFXBench 5 Aztec Ruins At GDC Today the 2016 Game Developers Conference kicked off, and Kishonti hasn't wasted any time in announcing the latest version of their GFXBench benchmark... 2016-03-18 08:16 2KB www.anandtech.com 29 Hands On With the Retail Oculus Rift: Countdown to Launch By far the dominant theme at GDC 2016 has been virtual reality. If you’re not a hardware vendor directly creating VR products, then... 2016-03-18 08:16 2KB www.anandtech.com 30 Intel's Skull Canyon NUC is Official: $650, Shipping In May Back in January, Intel had provided us with information about the Skull Canyon NUC based on a Skylake H-Series CPU(with Iris Pro... 2016-03-18 08:16 1KB www.anandtech.com 31 Qualcomm’s New SDK Enables Development of VR Apps on Snapdragon 820 Qualcomm on Monday introduced its first virtual reality software development kit, designed for its Snapdragon 820 mobile SoC. The new tools will enable software... 2016-03-18 08:16 4KB www.anandtech.com 32 VRScore: Crytek and Basemark Announce New Benchmark Release Virtual Reality has definitely been playing the slow and steady race for a while now. Thankfully, with the approach of consumer VR headsets going... 2016-03-18 08:16 5KB www.anandtech.com 33 GDC 2016: Tearing & Freesync/G-Sync Support Coming to Windows' UWP Apps With the recent release of the first major games built for Windows’ Universal Windows Platform runtime, the current limitations of UWP has been a... 2016-03-18 08:16 2KB www.anandtech.com 34 Domino's robot finally removes last vestiges of human contact from pizza delivery Even though it's just a prototype for now, this robot could one day deliver pizza to you while you sit at home in your pyjamas on a Friday night.