Several German firms are taking a stab at a single login process for accessing different online services — an approach that could compete with U.S. offerings. The companies, which include automaker Daimler, insurance provider Allianz and Deutsche Bank, among others, announced the joint effort on Monday. Their goal: to create a platform that revolves around…
Everyone has a preference when it comes to travel wear, but one company is hoping someday passengers will sport spacesuits on its craft. That company is SolarStratos, and it has built what it calls the world’s first solar stratospheric plane. A two-seat prototype with 22 square meters of solar cells had its maiden flight on…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s website slowed to a crawl after comic and political commentator John Oliver urged viewers to flood the agency with comments in support of net neutrality, in what appeared to be a repeat of a 2014 incident. With the FCC headed toward a repeal of net neutrality rules it passed in early 2015,…
For the umpteenth time, Dell Technologies has reiterated that PCs are important to the company, and it won’t quit the market. But PCs occupied only a few minutes of CEO Michael Dell’s opening keynote at Dell EMC World in Las Vegas on Monday. PCs are the engine that keep enterprises chugging, he said. Instead, Dell…
Sony has developed a CCD image sensor that can help autonomous cars make sense of electronic road signs and see better when transitioning between dark tunnels and daylight. The IMX390 sensor has an anti-flicker function that means images of LED road signs come out clear. As LED signs are often used to indicate temporary road conditions…
The Linux Foundation announced a new software project under its Hyperledger open consortium aimed at creating a collaboration tool for building blockchain business networks — or smart contracts — and their deployment across a distributed ledger. The new project, called Hyperleder Composer, is a modeling language based on JavaScript and with REST API support, that…
There’s a decent chance you’re part of Oracle’s next big business. Not selling products to you, but selling you as a product. That’s the idea behind the Oracle Data Cloud, a massive pool of information about consumers and companies. The tech titan has put it together by tracking people across the web and buying data…
Dell EMC is making one of its broadest rollouts of updated storage gear in years at Dell EMC World on Monday, packing more capacity and performance into several product lines. Coming several months after the completion of the Dell-EMC merger, the update includes the second generation of EMC’s XtremIO all-flash array, a new architecture for…
Microsoft will issue the final security update for the debut version of Windows 10 tomorrow. Windows 10 1507 — Microsoft tags feature upgrades with a yymm label — will receive its last security patches on May 9. The retirement date had been quietly announced last month when it appeared on several support documents. [ Related:…
Just a few years back, Dell said it didn’t want to mimic sloppy behemoths like IBM or HP and, instead, wanted to be lean and focus on the mid-market. But after a US$67 billion merger with EMC in 2016, the new company called Dell Technologies is a full-bodied systems integrator, offering hardware, networking, storage, and services.…