Monthly Archives: April 2017
Google Teaches Computers to Draw Using Sketches Drawn by Humans
Google has a number of research projects underway aimed at making computers smarter and technically versatile. One of those projects involves teaching machines how...
T-Mobile Spends Nearly $8 Billion as Top Bidder in FCC 600 MHz Auction
T-Mobile was the dominant winner in the 600 MHz spectrum auction that ended on March 30, 2017. The Federal Communications Commission announced the results...
Samsung Bixby, Apple 3D Sensing to Miss Handset Releases
Today’s topics include major mobile feature development setbacks for Samsung and Apple, a senior Google executive's rebuttal of claims of pay discrimination against women,...
Microsoft Adds an Interactive Shell to Azure Command Line Tool
Microsoft is following up the February release of Azure Command Line (CLI) 2.0 with a new interface that helps users familiarize themselves with the...
Criminals, Intelligence Agents Shared Zero-Day Microsoft Word Flaw
Intelligence operatives targeting Ukrainian rebels and cyber-criminals targeting businesses used the same zero-day attack exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Word, according to an analysis...
Visual Studio for Mac Update Takes Inspiration from Windows
Web developers who update their copies of Visual Studio for Mac to the newest preview version can now access many of the features that...
HPE Secures FIPS Validation for Format-Preserving Encryption
Hewlett Packard Enterprise reached a major milestone this week, announcing on April 13 that its Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE) technology is now Federal Information Processing...
10 Reasons Why an iPhone Owner Bought a Samsung Galaxy S8+
10 Reasons Why an iPhone Owner Bought a Samsung Galaxy S8+
When Samsung announced its Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ in March, for the first...
Capsule8 Building Container-Aware Security Platform for Linux
Security startup Capsule8 emerged from its stealth mode in February with a plan to help provide a new model for application container security. In a...
IT Professionals Feel Security Pressure From Cloud, Others’ Breaches
IT Professionals Feel Security Pressure From Cloud, Others' Breaches
Security services firm Trustwave released its 2017 Security Pressures Report on April 12, providing insight on...