Google abused its dominant position in the search engine market to illegally promote its comparison shopping service, the European Union’s top antitrust authority ruled Tuesday, slapping the company with a €2.42 billion (US$2.72 billion) fine. The consequence could be still greater differences in the ways Google presents search results to users in the U.S. and to…
DetailsWindows users who work in tight spaces and need a small form factor workstation with multiple display ports and solid processing power have a new contender to check out: the new ThinkStation P320 Tiny. The workstation lives up to its name: At 1.4 x 7.1 by 7.2 inches, it’s the smallest workstation on the market…
DetailsUber is now a driverless vehicle, after CEO Travis Kalanick stepped down Tuesday. Kalanick had already decided to take an indefinite leave of absence from the company, but now he’s leaving for good. The move came at the request of the board of directors, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The company has already lost Kalanick’s…
DetailsThe European Commission wants to make it easier for lightweight drones to fly autonomously in European airspace — with logistics, inspection services and agricultural businesses set to benefit. Last Friday, the Commission unveiled a plan to improve the safety of drones flying at low altitude. It wants to introduce a consistent set of rules across…
DetailsWith no change at the top of the latest Top500.org supercomputer list, you need to look further down the rankings to see the real story. Top500.org published the 49th edition of its twice-yearly supercomputer league table on Monday, and once again the Chinese computers 93-petaflop Sunway TaihuLight and 33.9-petaflop Tianhe 2 lead the pack. An…
DetailsWith internet traffic set to triple over the next five years or so, according to recent estimates from Nokia and Cisco Systems, Nokia thinks the time is right for a new range of high-end routers that can boost core capacity by a factor of six — and even help 10-year-old devices to double their capacity.…
DetailsPicture this: The networking stack on the main pump controller has crashed, and you need to reboot it — but it’s 20 meters underground, on another continent — and there’s no-one on site to hit ‘reset’. Or you’re bowling along the highway and one of the processor cores in your self-driving car gets zapped by…
DetailsSoftBank’s latest robotics acquisition could allow it to open up a whole new market for service industries and home help. Its customer service and companion robot, Pepper, is somewhat limited by the fact that it can’t do much more than wave its arms and talk. Now, though, SoftBank has its eyes on the fetching and…
DetailsThey have the resources, the expertise and, though they may not realize it, the need — but it turns out that enterprises are often the ones that don’t yet have IPv6. That’s the finding of the Internet Society its latest report on IPv6 deployment, published five years after the organization began a worldwide push to…
DetailsAll-electric satellites are changing the way airline passengers access the internet. Like a Tesla in space, an all-electric satellite uses electric propulsion to climb from transfer orbit to geostationary orbit and to maintain its position on station, instead of the chemical rockets used by traditional satellites. Such satellites still need a traditional launcher burning solid…
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