A story was told of a bunch of English scientists digging down a kilometer into the ground, and found traces of copper wires a thousand years old. For this, they came to the conclusion their ancestors had a telephone network a millennium ago. In response to that, Scottish scientists, not to be outdone by their English counterparts, dug two kilometers down, and found traces of fiber optic cables dating back to the time of Jesus. As such, the...
Winter in Calgary is very much like a roller coaster. The temperatures seem to rise or fall randomly, and it is possible to go from temperatures well below zero to temperatures above zero in one day. For me, this is the most frustrating part of winter, since it feels like it cannot decide if it wants to be warm or cold -- much like choosing which restaurant to go to for dinner. I have to wake up early in the morning, scrape the ice off of my car...
From InfoWorld: Google's PerfKit toolset for benchmarking cloud environments was originally released earlier this year in a pre-1.0 version. Today, it's officially been bumped to a 1.0 release, with expanded support for various cloud providers and automation of 26 different benchmarks, up from the...
From PC World: As we look forward to CES 2016, D-Link is finally shipping the last of the radical-looking Ultra-series routers it announced at last year’s CES. The 4x4 DIR-885L/R promises to deliver top speeds of 2167Mbps on the 5GHz frequency band and 1000Mbps on the 2.4GHz band.
As with most...
From CNET: According to newly revealed statistics from Valve, some 77,000 Steam accounts are hacked every month.
Valve revealed the figure this week as part of a blog post in which it pointed out that account theft is nothing new on Steam. It's been happening since the platform's first days. But...
From InfoWorld: After a brief beta testing period, Microsoft's Cortana assistant is available for everyone on the iPhone and Android phones.
Though Cortana lacks the deep operating system hooks of Android's Google Now and iOS's Siri, it could still be a useful companion for users of Windows 10 PCs...
From PC World: Walmart is rolling out in its stores its own smartphone-based payment system that uses QR technology rather than the near-field communication technology, or NFC, used by the payment systems of players like Apple and Google.
Integrated into its smartphone app, the new Walmart Pay will...
From CNET: Uber has been dealt another setback in its legal battle over how its drivers are classified.
After granting class-action status in September to a lawsuit challenging how Uber classifies its drivers, a federal judge on Wednesday ruled that many more drivers in California can join lawsuit...
From ComputerWorld: In a partnership that would have seemed most unlikely back when Microsoft railed against open source, the software company has teamed with the Linux Foundation to offer a certification for managing Linux systems in the Azure cloud.
The new Microsoft Certified Solutions...
From ComputerWorld: Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been ordered to depose in an intellectual property dispute between Oculus and ZeniMax Media, as he has "unique knowledge" based on his decision to buy the wearable virtual reality technology company and its valuation.
ZeniMax sued Oculus in...
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