Microsoft today revealed more about what information Windows 10 collects from users, the latest attempt to quell long-simmering resistance to the operating system’s data gathering and reporting practices. “Our hope is this information will help you be more informed about the data we collect and use, enabling you to make informed choices,” said Terry Myerson,…
Businesses that consider moving their analytics to the cloud should be more concerned with data migration and network connectivity challenges than worries around security, according to Marc Clark, head of cloud strategy at data warehouse vendor Teradata. Speaking at Teradata Universe in Nice this week, Clark discussed the findings of a customer survey which polled…
Today is the one-year anniversary for the HTC Vive virtual reality headset, and right now you can get the basic system kit for $700—or $100 off the usual price of $800. You can find this deal many places online including Amazon, the Microsoft Store, and Newegg. To read this article in full or to leave…
A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system’s entire memory. This is a serious violation of the security barrier enforced by the hypervisor and poses a particular threat to multi-tenant data centers where the…
Four years ago, Google was faced with a conundrum: if all its users hit its voice recognition services for three minutes a day, the company would need to double the number of data centers just to handle all of the requests to the machine learning system powering those services. Rather than buy a bunch of…
Cisco’s AppDynamics this week rolled out a developer toolkit that will let corporate development teams quickly build and measure the business impact of Web and mobile applications. The AppDynamics Developer Toolkit will feature a variety of languages and diagnostic tools that let application teams measure the business impact of new programs. +More on Network World:…
There are all kinds of new features in the Windows 10 Creators Update rolling out on April 11, but one change really sticks out. Greater transparency about the data that Microsoft collects from your PC. There are new dashboard screens that all Windows 10 users will see the first time they install or upgrade to the…
While Samsung has been singing the praises of the Galaxy S8 since its unveiling last week, it’s been pretty tight-lipped about one important thing: battery life. So, we’ve been concerned. But Phone Arena got a chance to test the larger of the two phones, and as it turns out, there’s no reason to worry. Probably.…
At least 30 percent of malware today is new, zero-day malware that is missed by traditional antivirus defenses, according to a new report. “We’re gathering threat data from hundreds of thousands of customers and network security appliances,” said Corey Nachreiner, CTO at WatchGuard Technologies. “We have different types of malware detection services, including a signature…
Google rolled out Wednesday a version of its YouTube video sharing app that is targeted at users who do not have robust internet connections. The beta version of the YouTube Go app is available on the Google Play Store in India. It offers data saving features like the ability to preview videos before the user…