Intel reportedly delays Ivy Bridge launch until June, manufacturing process to blame
Posted on February 28, 2012 by root
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Read More..When The Car Is The Driver.
Posted on February 17, 2012 by root
This week the state of Nevada finalized new rules that will make it possible for robotic self-driving cars to receive their own special driving permits. It’s not quite driver’s licenses for robots — but it’s close. The other day I went for a spin in a robotic car. This car has an $80,000 cone-shaped laser [...]
Read More..Fair Labor Association Begins Inspections of Foxconn
Posted on February 14, 2012 by root
CUPERTINO, California—February 13, 2012—Apple® today announced that the Fair Labor Association will conduct special voluntary audits of Apple’s final assembly suppliers, including Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, at Apple’s request. A team of labor rights experts led by FLA president Auret van Heerden began the first inspections Monday morning at the facility in [...]
Read More..German gov’t endorses Chrome as most secure browser
Posted on February 5, 2012 by root
Germany’s cyber security agency today recommended that Windows 7 users run Google’s Chrome browser, citing the application’s sandbox and auto-update features. In a security best practices guideline, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, known by its German initials of BSI, said Chrome was the best browser. “Your internet browser is the key component for the [...]
Read More..Hollywood Still Doesn’t Realize That The Internet Drives Popular Culture Now
Posted on February 4, 2012 by root
Stewart Baker, the former DHS official whose warnings about how SOPA would wreak havoc on online security were instrumental in convincing many of our elected officials that SOPA and PIPA were half-baked legislative disasters, now has a fascinating writeup for The Hollywood Reporter, trying to explain why the Republican Party turned strongly against SOPA/PIPA. We’ve [...]
Read More..Facebook Files for an I.P.O.
Posted on February 2, 2012 by root
It sure pays to have friends. Facebook, the vast online social network, took its first step toward becoming a publicly traded company on Wednesday as it filed to sell shares on the stock market. The service, hatched in a Harvard dormitory room nearly eight years ago, is on track to be the largest Internet initial [...]
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