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You might not think that ‘Linux’ and ‘mainframe’ belong in the same sentence, but IBM has been putting various flavors of Linux on its mainframe computers for 15 years. Today IBM and Canonical announced that the two companies were teaming up to build one running Ubuntu Linux. The new unit is called the LinuxOne. The announcement comes as part of a broader strategy… Read More... →

Two years ago, Seagate debuted a new technology for hard drives that essentially gives applications direct access to some of its drives over an Ethernet connection to store objects using key-value pairs. This reduces the overhead that comes with traditional file systems and file servers and allows vendors to pack more drives into their racks. Seagate made drivers for this technology available… Read More... →

The Linux Foundation and PLUMgrid today announced an alliance of hardware manufacturers, Linux distribution vendors and others that aims to advance Linux networking and virtualization for modern data centers. Other partners in this alliance include Barefoot Networks, Broadcom, Canonical, Cavium, Cisco, Huawei, Intel, and SUSE. The project will be based on PLUMgrid’s existing IO… Read More... →

In a recent TechCrunch article I was quoted calling the one-time pad a “unicorn”. Inevitably, I was roundly criticized. But what none of the commenters (or myself) realized, however, was how appropriate the term “unicorn” was. The perfect security of the one-time pad, like a unicorn, is imaginary. Claude Shannon’s seminal proof of the perfect secrecy of… Read More... →

Posted by jenstarLocal SEO has seen the biggest shake-up since Google launched their first local algorithm, Pigeon, just over a year ago. On Thursday, August 6th, people began to notice that the usual 7-packs that frequently showed up in the search results for local businesses were suddenly replaced with 3-packs in the desktop search results. It initially wasn't too alarming, but as the hours passed it was obvious Google had changed the face of local search in their search results. By the end of that day, 3... →

The search for microbial life continues to be a high priority for Congress and NASA, while the search for intelligent life is left fighting for scraps. Milner’s $100 million investment changes all of that for many SETI scientists. Read More... →

And then there were three. Earlier this week, Microsoft released a new set of updates for Windows 10, the third time it has done so since the operating system formally debuted in late July. Windows 10 is Microsoft’s attempt to build a single operating system that can function on devices of any size, or input variety. As before, the update comes with minimal documentation and explanation. Read More... →

VB EVENT: Whether for its original stuffed-crust concept (now duplicated by many), the pizza lunch buffet, or (most recently) the hot dog crust, Pizza Hut is known for its disruptive tendencies in the world of pizza. For Pizza Hut’s most recent gastronomic creation, a two-foot long pizza called “The Big Flavor Dipper,” the company turned to Tim Staples and […]... →

HappyFunCorp has been living up to its name, according to co-founder Ben Schippers — at least if you associate happiness and fun with profits, growth and acquisitions. Last year, I visited the design and engineering firm’s Brooklyn offices for the final episode of our Built in Brooklyn video series. Since then, Schippers said the company has continued to add new team members, with… Read More... →

Compass recently published its second report on the global startup ecosystem. The report is the result of more than 200 interviews with entrepreneurs from 25 different countries, 11,000 startup surveys and insight from data partners like CrunchBase, Deloitte and Dealroom, as well as more than 60 local partners. Our CEO, Ray Walia, was also quoted; he summarized Vancouver’s strengths in… Read More... →

Разработчики внедрили контекстно-зависимый поиск в седьмой версии приложения Google для iOS. Это дает пользователям возможность задавать дополнительные и уточняющие вопросы, не формулируя их заново. Например, если пользователь во время прочтения статьи об Уильяме Шекспире скажет «Ok, Google, где он родился» поисковая система поймет вопрос и даст релевантный ответ. Распознавание контекста и предмета первоначального поиска позволяет пользователю задавать неоднозначные дополнительные вопросы или использовать... →

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GUEST: Would you say marketing is art or science? I’d say the best campaigns involve a little of both: You need art to inspire, and you need science to analyze and measure. Influencer marketing is no different in that it involves a blend of strategy and creative, but the reason it works so well has less […]... →

GUEST: Businesses that use independent contractors, beware – the Department of Labor is watching. 1099 contractors — so named after the tax form filled out when reporting miscellaneous income — are independent from the hiring company. A lot of businesses like independent contractors because, with them, the hiring firm doesn’t have to worry about withholding payroll […]... →

A colorblind man tried on color-correcting sunglasses at sunset and uploaded the emotional results to YouTube. To simplify a mountain of science, EnChroma lenses boost colour vision using a mathematical formula to directly work with the brain’s vision system. Their lenses use more than 100 reflective coatings to help users discern between colors at the specific ratios required by the brain for proper […]... →

Founding a startup is difficult anywhere in the world, but it’s especially hard in Gaza. Since the war one year ago, Gaza has been nominally peaceful — but the norm is Gaza is not easy: six hours of electricity, and therefore six hours of Internet, a day; a 43 percent unemployment rate, with youth unemployment at 60 percent according to the World Bank; an embargo from Israel… Read More... →

Издание Forbes опубликовало 12-й ежегодный рейтинг самых богатых предпринимателей России. Список возглавили Владимир Потанин, Михаил Фридман и Алишер Усманов.... →

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Soon, you’ll be able to create your own Disney theme park on your phone. At the biennial D23 Expo fan convention, Disney Interactive revealed that it’s partnering with Gameloft to bring Disney Magic Kingdoms to iOS, Android, and Windows mobile devices. During a presentation, Disney said that mobile phones are a “perfect” place […]... →

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Sora, Donald, and Goofy gave a sneak peek of their long-awaited new adventure at Disney’s biennial D23 Expo fan convention. Developer Square Enix revealed that Kingdom Hearts III will have a world based on the popular film Big Hero 6. The movie is about a gang of young superheroes in the fictional […]... →

Epic Games and Unity Technologies are in a battle for the hearts and minds of game developers. At a time when game budgets are soaring — even for mobile games — and , developers rely on the engine makers to reduce their production costs and make it easier to craft works of art that rival […]... →