By any possible measure, 2024 was a year that was rife with both incredible highs and devastating lows. Just looking at technology and government over the past year or so, we saw amazing advancements, like the move to proactively protect government data from quantum hacking using a diverse portfolio of new algorithmic defenses. And in … Read more
If the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus doesn’t make a convincing argument for businesses to look at Chromebooks, then we’re not sure what will. £649 to £749 – or £549 in recent sales – nets you a stunning slimline laptop with a lovely OLED screen. It’s fast, lean, efficient, and easy to manage for small businesses … Read more
In November 2016, as Facebook was being blamed for a torrent of fake news and conspiracy theories swirling around the first election of Donald J. Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of the social network, wrote an apologetic post. In his message, Mr. Zuckerberg announced a series of steps he planned to take to grapple … Read more
Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture” collision, where the two bodies briefly joined up before settling into their current positions. “It’s a U-Haul situation,” says planetary scientist Adeene Denton of the … Read more
Reuters An immigration row has erupted between Donald Trump’s supporters over a long-standing US visa programme. The feud is about H-1B visas, which allow US-based companies to bring in skilled workers from abroad into certain industries. Critics say the scheme undercuts American workers – but proponents say the visas allow the US to attract the … Read more
Clean energy tax credit safeguards could save taxpayers $1 trillion. Credit: IOP Publishing A study published in Environmental Research: Energy shows why new safeguards adopted by the U.S. Treasury Department are necessary to avoid substantial climate impacts and wasted taxpayer resources from a generous hydrogen production tax credit. The new study illustrates how, absent safeguards, … Read more
In principle, FinOps – the art and craft of understanding and reducing costs of cloud (and other) services – should be an easy win. Many organizations are aware they are spending too much on cloud-based workloads, they just don’t know how much. So surely it’s a question of just finding out and sorting it, right? … Read more
In the classic cartoon “The Jetsons,” Rosie the robotic maid seamlessly switches from vacuuming the house to cooking dinner to taking out the trash. But in real life, training a general-purpose robot remains a major challenge. Typically, engineers collect data that are specific to a certain robot and task, which they use to train the … Read more
Ryan Haines / Android Authority Qi2 this, Qi2 that. For the better part of two years now, we’ve been hearing about how the Android answer to MagSafe will completely change wireless charging for the better. And, to a charging nerd like me, it sounds pretty good. Who wouldn’t want faster wireless charging speeds or charging … Read more
The nation’s top oversight office is considering penning a study to assess the cost of administering a far-reaching operation to rip out and replace swaths of at-risk or compromised telecommunications equipment owned by small communications providers around the country, according to a senior U.S. official. The deliberations, which have not been previously reported, are fueled … Read more
