UPS plans to expand its use of solar energy nearly five-fold this year, by adding 26,000 solar panels to its 2,580 facilities throughout the world. The renewable energy expansion project will cost the shipping firm about $18 million; it will begin with at least eight buildings in the U.S. Increasing the use of renewable energy…
The Nvidia Shield Tablet K1 is probably the best Android tablet you can get right at this time, and now it has Android Nougat.The update is also coming to the original Shield, while the Pixel got a helpful update to fix an annoying audio bug. Each week, we round up all the major software updates…
Companies concerned about cybersecurity have a fleet of new Microsoft tools coming their way. The company announced a host of new security capabilities Friday morning as part of the run-up to the massive RSA security conference next week in San Francisco. On the Windows front, the company announced that it’s adding the ability to use…
Intel realizes there will be a post-Moore’s Law era and is already investing in technologies to drive computing beyond today’s PCs and servers. The chipmaker is “investing heavily” in quantum and neuromorphic computing, said Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel, during a question-and-answer session at the company’s investor day on Thursday. “We are investing in those edge…
Up to 20 attackers or groups of attackers are defacing WordPress websites that haven’t yet applied a recent patch for a critical vulnerability. The vulnerability, located in the platform’s REST API, allows unauthenticated attackers to modify the content of any post or page within a WordPress site. The flaw was fixed in WordPress 4.7.2, released…
WhatsApp is adding an extra security feature to help keep its more than a billion users safe from hacks. The company is rolling out two-step verification to its users worldwide. When it’s available you will find it in the messaging service’s app under Settings > Account > Two-step verification > Enable. WhatsApp’s approach to two-step…
GlobalFoundries will open a new factory to make cheap wireless chips in Chengdu, China, next year. The chipmaker, once part of microprocessor designer AMD, also plans to expand production at existing fabrication plants in the U.S., Germany, and Singapore, it said Friday. It makes chips for AMD, IBM, Qualcomm, and Mediatek, among others. Beginning next…
Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2017 software development platform will be officially released on March 7, the company said on Thursday. Currently a release candidate and previously called Visual Studio 15, the upgrade focuses on code navigation and fixes, refactoring, IntelliSense code editing, and debugging. For teams and devops, it offers real-time features like architectural dependency validation…
The outcome of the annual H-1B visa lottery is immigration’s Groundhog Day. It’s the same result year after year, as the large outsourcing firms continue to lead all others in getting H-1B visas. But this year may be different, because of President Donald Trump. [ Join the discussion at Computerworld’s H-1B & IT Outsourcing group…
No Intel chip is as expensive as the new Xeon E7-8894 v4 server processor. The US$8,898 Xeon chip has massive horsepower with 24 cores, 60MB of cache and a maximum clock frequency of 3.4GHz. Intel said this is the company’s fastest server chip, breaking enterprise application speed records. The company’s next expensive chip after the…