Data analytics company Palantir will pay US$1.7 million in back pay and stock options to settle charges that it routinely discriminated against Asian job applicants. In addition, it must also hire eight people from among those it allegedly discriminated against. The charges go back to September last year, when the Department of Labor accused Palantir of rejecting…
If you’re running a Windows Server 2003 machine, you have a problem. Your already-vulnerable computer is now at severe risk of being hacked. That’s due to the internet release earlier this month of a batch of updates that paint a bulls-eye on computers running Windows Server 2003, according to security researchers. “I can teach my mom how to…
Prepare to run Android at blazing fast speeds on a new Raspberry Pi-like computer developed by Huawei. Huawei’s HiKey 960 computer board is priced at US$239 but has some of the latest CPU and GPU technologies. Google, ARM, Huawei, Archermind, and LeMaker all played roles in developing the board. The HiKey 960 is meant to be…
Earlier this year at CES, Toyota and Honda revealed their vision of an autonomous, connected, companion car, and now Volkswagen is entering the mix with Sedric. Sedric is Volkswagen’s first crack at a fully autonomous car, and as such, it doesn’t have pedals or a steering wheel. Instead, the concept car is summoned by pressing…
All signs are pointing to Apple’s work on an augmented reality device of some sort, and now Apple has a new addition working on that effort: NASA’s Jeff Norris. According to Bloomberg, Apple hired Norris away from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, where he founded the Mission Operations Innovation Office, to work on its augmented reality…
Cisco today announced an enterprise management package designed to help users monitor and control the data usage operation of the tons of mobile devices in their networks. Cisco Jasper’s Control Center for Mobile Enterprise is an extension of Jasper’s overarching Control Center IoT service platform, now directed at letting enterprise customers turn up services more…
3D NAND, which stacks layer upon layer of flash cells atop one another like a microscopic skyscraper, will become the prominent technology for all flash memory this year, according to a new report. According to DRAMeXchange’s latest forecast, NAND flash manufacturers have focused their efforts on converting fabrication plants to 3D NAND, which is denser,…
Intel doesn’t make its own discrete GPU but has built something that specializes in processing 4K graphics. But that product isn’t powerful enough to run Crysis, if you were wondering. The chipmaker showed off its Intel Visual Compute Accelerator 2 at the NAB show in Las Vegas this week. It has the build of a GPU but is…
Our review of the Creators Update for Windows 10 Mobile may have shown it to be a half-hearted update at best, but a substantial portion of Microsoft’s base of installed phones won’t even have a chance to experience it. A report by AdDuplex, an ad network running on top of Windows devices, found that four…
Google might not be as responsible for the spread of fake news as social media, but the search giant is still doing something about it: burying known sources of fake news, and letting users weigh in, too. Google frequently tweaks the algorithms that return relevant search results, sometimes privately, and other times publicly. In this…