Inmarsat says it’s built a global IoT network by combining land-based low-power networks with its mesh of communications satellites, bringing data connections to things like cattle in Australia and reservoirs in Malaysia. The system will combine global reach with one of an emerging class of networks designed for small, low-power devices like sensors. With cellular-or-better…
Boston — A conference focused on a single open source project sounds like the sort of event that will feature a lone keynote speaker speaking to maybe 100 interested parties in a lecture hall at a local college. Spark Summit East was very much the opposite. A total of 1,503 people watched the five keynote…
To better vet foreign travelers, the U.S. might demand that some visa applicants hand over the passwords to their social media accounts, a proposal that’s alarming privacy experts. “If they don’t want to give us the information, then they don’t come,” said John Kelly, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, on Tuesday. Kelly…
Kim Stevenson, who served as the second-in-command at Intel’s PC chip division, has left the company after just six months in her new role. Stevenson tweeted last week that she had left the company after serving more than seven years at Intel, and she would move “on to new adventures.” She served as the chief…
The nation’s energy policies appear to be ready to change drastically under President Donald Trump’s administration. The President’s “America First Energy Plan,” published yesterday, appeared to focus almost exclusively on increasing fossil fuel production and rejuvenating the coal industry. The plan called for accessing “the estimated $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas…
An AMD Athlon or Sempron chip may not drum as much excitement as Ryzen, but loyalty has helped those brands stick around for more than a decade. So what happens to those and other PC processors, like the A-series and FX, when AMD’s new Ryzen chips start flooding the market in March? AMD has said the…
AMD won’t be providing Windows 7 drivers for its upcoming Ryzen processors, the company said, contradicting recent reports that indicated AMD would support Microsoft’s older operating system. AMD confirmed that it has tested and validated Ryzen on Windows 7, but that it won’t officially support the OS. It puts to rest the suggestion of a recent translated…
Microsoft yesterday released a refreshed beta of Office 2016 for Mac that includes support for Apple’s latest hardware innovation, the Touch Bar that debuted in October on new MacBook Pro notebooks. On those laptops, Apple replaced the static row of function keys at the top of the keyboard with an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display…
Some big players in security and the internet of things, including AT&T and Nokia, are joining forces to solve problems that they say make IoT vulnerable in many areas. The IoT Cybersecurity Alliance, formed Wednesday, also includes IBM, Symantec, Palo Alto Networks, and mobile security company Trustonic. The group said it won’t set standards but…
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich’s meeting with new U.S. president Donald Trump was followed by a big announcement: The company will invest US$7 billion over the next three to four years to complete a factory to make 7-nanometer chips. The completion of Fab 42 — where the chips will be made — will create about 3,000…