Google is investing in another massive undersea fiber-optic cable as a part of its plans to build out network connectivity around the world. The company announced Wednesday that it is helping to fund a project called Indigo, which will connect Jakarta, Singapore, Perth and Sydney to one another. The cable will run for approximately 9,000…
As if astronauts didn’t have a cool enough job already, they now get to also zoom down a zip line. Engineers at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station recently finished testing an exit system designed to quickly transport astronauts to safety in case of a launch emergency. The zip line is being prepped for crew members…
The federal government is doing something it has never done before: It’s encouraging people to file H-1B abuse complaints. This week the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Labor each posted information about how to file a complaint against suspected H-1B abuse. It’s a clear signal that government scrutiny of H-1B use will…
Getting 8K displays to work with Windows 10 PCs can be difficult, as Dell is finding out. But playing with 8K on PCs is a discovery process for Dell, which shipped the first-ever 8K display — the Dell 32 UltraSharp 8K Monitor — last week. The small initial stock of the US$5,000 display sold out in a…
Microsoft today revealed more about what information Windows 10 collects from users, the latest attempt to quell long-simmering resistance to the operating system’s data gathering and reporting practices. “Our hope is this information will help you be more informed about the data we collect and use, enabling you to make informed choices,” said Terry Myerson,…
Businesses that consider moving their analytics to the cloud should be more concerned with data migration and network connectivity challenges than worries around security, according to Marc Clark, head of cloud strategy at data warehouse vendor Teradata. Speaking at Teradata Universe in Nice this week, Clark discussed the findings of a customer survey which polled…
Today is the one-year anniversary for the HTC Vive virtual reality headset, and right now you can get the basic system kit for $700—or $100 off the usual price of $800. You can find this deal many places online including Amazon, the Microsoft Store, and Newegg. To read this article in full or to leave…
A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system’s entire memory. This is a serious violation of the security barrier enforced by the hypervisor and poses a particular threat to multi-tenant data centers where the…
Four years ago, Google was faced with a conundrum: if all its users hit its voice recognition services for three minutes a day, the company would need to double the number of data centers just to handle all of the requests to the machine learning system powering those services. Rather than buy a bunch of…
Cisco’s AppDynamics this week rolled out a developer toolkit that will let corporate development teams quickly build and measure the business impact of Web and mobile applications. The AppDynamics Developer Toolkit will feature a variety of languages and diagnostic tools that let application teams measure the business impact of new programs. +More on Network World:…