The next NASA rover to head to another planet might take a little robotic scout along with it. This robot can fold up its wheels and tuck itself away or unfold and pop up like a piece of origami. That’s what NASA is saying about its new “PUFFER” robot, or Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot,…
Microsoft has wrapped up work on a version of Windows 10 for China’s government and state-owned businesses, and is ready to begin selling the software, a state-run newspaper said today. “We have worked extensively to make it secure and controllable. We are now ready to serve the market,” Alain Crozier, the CEO of Microsoft’s Greater…
Java 9 has moved to the second phase of its ramp-down process, with an Oracle official advising deferment of some bugs as the upgrade heads toward its July 27 release date. In a recent bulletin, Oracle’s Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java platform group, advised deferring new P1 (Priority) and P2 bugs that are…
Tesla Energy has for the first time become an electric utility to Hawaii’s Kauai island, having recently flipped the switch on a solar panel array and corresponding battery storage plant. The facility will generate up to 13 megawatts (MWs) of electricity for the island’s power grid to meet peak demand in the evening. Tesla, and its…
Not many companies would want you to pee on their product, but one at Cebit positively encourages it. Peelytics of Heidelberg, Germany, has developed a Bluetooth beacon that detects when someone is urinating on it, and for how long. If that person has a hand free to wake up their smartphone, they can “claim” that…
MillerCoors is suing IT services firm HCL in federal court over what began as an approximately $53 million software deployment. The work was for a new SAP system for integrating and sharing data across the enterprise, including accounting, sales, production, warehouse operations, distribution, security and human resources data. It required customization to address particular business…
The U.K. is joining the U.S. in its ban restricting passengers from bringing some electronic devices onto flights from the Middle East. Phones, laptops, and tablets that are larger than 16 cm (6.3 inches) in length and wider than 9.3 cm will no longer be allowed in the cabin on select flights coming from several…
Large data center interconnect users needing high-speed connectivity and bandwidth for access to massive cloud resources have a new option to handle these demands. Juniper today rolled out its Open Cloud Interconnect package which includes Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing optical boards for its QFX10000 Layer 3 spine switch and BTI7800 optical transport switch families as…
Organizations that use the popular Moodle learning management system should deploy the latest patches as soon as possible because they fix vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to take over web servers. Moodle is an open source platform used by schools, universities, and other organizations to set up websites with interactive online courses. It’s used by…
Two months after acquiring SimpliVity for US$650 million, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is beginning to reshape the company’s converged infrastructure offering in its own image. SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure appliance, the OmniCube, replaces storage switches, cloud gateways, high-availability shared storage, and appliances for backup and deduplication, WAN optimization, and storage caching. The company also offers OmniStack, the…