Apple’s new iPhones are here: Executives unveiled a new flagship iPhone X model alongside refreshed versions of the existing iPhone, dubbed iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, at a press event held in the newly-constructed Steve Jobs Theater on Apple’s new campus in Cupertino, Calif. Tuesday. The iPhone X, pronounced “ten,” is named to…
Apple’s new iPhones are here: Executives unveiled a new flagship iPhone X model alongside refreshed versions of the existing iPhone, dubbed iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, at a press event held in the newly-constructed Steve Jobs Theater on Apple’s new campus in Cupertino, Calif. Tuesday. The iPhone X, pronounced “ten,” is named to commemorate…
The U.S. Federal Aviation Authority has granted special permission for the use of drones to help relief efforts in Houston, Texas, in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. At the IFA trade show in Berlin, PowerVision is demonstrating a drone that would need no authorization from the FAA to play its part. That’s because the PowerRay…
When Consumer Reports stopped recommending the Microsoft Surface Laptop and latest Microsoft Surface Book, it did so based not on those specific products’ reliability. Rather, the company used reliability surveys of earlier Surface devices (including Surface 3, Surface Pro 3, and the early Surface Book), according to a report the publication released Thursday. In addition…
In a move that should come as no surprise given the declining need for proprietary rich Internet plug-ins, Adobe on Tuesday said it will cease updating and distributing its Flash Player at the end of 2020. Content creators will instead be encouraged to migrate existing content to new, “open” formats such as HTML5, WebGL, and…
Market hype and growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI) are pushing established software vendors to introduce AI into their product strategy, creating considerable confusion in the process, according to Gartner. Analysts predict that by 2020, AI technologies will be virtually pervasive in almost every new software product and service. In January 2016, the term “artificial…
With version 2.2 of Apache Spark, a long-awaited feature for the multipurpose in-memory data processing framework is now available for production use. Structured Streaming, as that feature is called, allows Spark to process streams of data in ways that are native to Spark’s batch-based data-handling metaphors. It’s part of Spark’s long-term push to become, if…
Apple calls Safari 11, the web browser that ships with macOS High Sierra, “the world’s fastest desktop browser.” And based on the benchmarks we’ve run, it’s true. We ran a series of browser benchmarks comparing Safari 11 (in the High Sierra public beta) to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera. In every test except one, Safari 11…
Teradata, the global data and analytics company, has announced the acquisition of StackIQ, developers of one of the industry’s fastest bare metal software provisioning platforms which has managed the deployment of cloud and analytics software at millions of servers in data centers around the globe. The deal will leverage StackIQ’s expertise in open source software…
The Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger project announced today the availability of Fabric 1.0, a collaboration tool for building blockchain distributed ledger business networks such as smart contract technology. The Hyperledger project, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology , said the Hyperledger Fabric framework can be a foundation for developing blockchain applications, products or…
